![]() ![]() ![]() I began reading Little Brother with trepidation: I've read his collection of essays on technology and intellectual property, Content, so I knew where he stood on those issues. If you didn't get the one-liner reference, BoingBoing is the tech blog of author Cory Doctorow. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they are mercilessly interrogated for days. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.īut his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. Marcus, a.k.a w1n5t0n, is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works, and how to work the system. Inverarity One-line summary: BoingBoing goes to war. ![]()
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