Cracking the code
Decoded: A Novel, Mai Jia’s story of Rong Jinzhen, a cryptanalyst and lost revolutionary hero, has only just been released in English. But the debut novel by the former military intelligence officer became a bestseller after its publication in China in 2002. Given the recent news of cyber-espionage between the US and China, I found myself wondering what the hackers of Unit 61398 thought of this…