Little Brother

by

Paperback, 416 pages

Published April 13, 2010 by Tor Teen.

OCLC Number:
462907750

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Seventeen year old Marcus and his friends are in the wrong place at the wrong time during a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. They are held be the Department of Homland Security for days before being release only to discover that their city has turned into surveillance society police state. They decide to resist in the only way they know how by taking on the DHS.

This book is distributed freely under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license from the author's website.

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reviewed Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Not far from reality and current development of state control

5 stars

The most scary thing is the fact we already live in a society that uses terrorism and other boogeymen to tighten the control of communication and movement of the citizens.

IT security is well explained. Even if this book is for youth, I realized I didn't fully understand some security concepts (public-private key) until now.

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3 stars

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  • Teens -- Literature & Fiction
  • Teens -- Science Fiction & Fantasy -- Science Fiction

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