Little Brother

, #1

eBook, 416 pages

English language

Published April 13, 2010 by Tor Teen.

ISBN:
978-1-4299-7287-1
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OCLC Number:
852795685

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(3 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 by the Department of Homeland Security for days before being released, only to discover that their city has turned into a surveillance society police state. They decide to resist in the only way they know how: by taking down the DHS.

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reviewed Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Little Brother, #1)

Not far from reality and current development of state control

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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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Computer hackers
  • Civil rights
  • Terrorism
  • Juvenile fiction
  • United States
  • Counterculture
  • Young adult fiction
  • Juvenile literature
  • United States. Department of Homeland Security
  • Hackers
  • Children's fiction
  • Terrorism, fiction
  • San francisco (calif.), fiction
  • Computer crimes