Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow
Wrong place, wrong time. Now DHS is watching him. He fights back.
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you want to understand how surveillance states work and what the technical and political resistance to them actually looks like
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Marcus is seventeen and in the wrong place when a terrorist attack hits San Francisco. The Department of Homeland Security detains him, releases him, and then surveils him. He fights back using every technical tool he has — encryption, mesh networks, anonymizing software — and organizes his peers into a resistance movement. Doctorow wrote this as a technical manual disguised as a thriller: every hack Marcus uses is real and explained clearly enough that a teenager could replicate it. The most important YA novel about surveillance, civil liberties, and digital resistance ever written. A book that treats teenagers as people capable of understanding systems and fighting them — and then hands them the tools to do it.
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- war on terror
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