No, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon#Technical_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon#Technical_conten... It was in a passage

No, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon#Technical_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon#Technical_conten... It was in a passage where some secondary character was in a prison cell and managed to spy on the screen across the wall using the technique.