However, for others to crack it now would be quite difficult, as you first have to penetrate the opponent's encryption routine. Any program attempting to decode it only finds itself met with nonsense, rendering the task almost impossible. How is anything supposed to get done then? Isn't there any way around it?
In comparison to the challenges faced by the tech department, the board meeting at XTreme was overwhelmingly gloomy, so much so that even Gates, who has seldom been present at XTreme, was invited back.
"I'd like us all to discuss this: if we don't overcome this obstacle, it will likely be the biggest crisis in XTreme's history," said John Thompson, the chairman of the board and CEO of XTreme. He was once a middle-aged man in the boardroom of Symantec, the world's largest security company.
