On term life insurance

One thing about Dan Brown's earlier thriller The Digital Fortress, if you've read the later Angels and Demons, the first one about the DaVinci Code guy, you'll know right away who the ultimate villain is going to be. Well, not right away but pretty close, as soon as the hero reports to her job at the NSA that Saturday, and the co-workers are described, you'll know. You'll know that he should not be taking out term life insurance because eventually his villainy will come to light, although it's really not presented as villainy. He has great intentions, and is shown as somebody who simply went too far in his zealousness. And I have to wonder if the NSA by the mid-1990s really did have the capacity to break every privacy code.