While I traveled to VizWeek last week, I took a copy of Cory Doctorow‘s new book "Little Brother".  I’ve never read any of Cory Doctorow’s other books, but I’ve heard very good things about this one.

The book is the story of a small group of High School students who are caught skipping class during a terrorist attack on San Francisco, and are picked up by the military and suspected of being involved in the attack.  Of course they’re quickly released, but find that Big Brother has moved into San Francisco and now monitors everything in the name of the "Patriot Act" and National Security.  They then decide to get revenge on their former captors and re-liberate the City.

The book gets a little unnecessarily in-depth on various technologies like TOR and PGP.  It’s a bit distracting in places when it goes from plot and action, to a 2-page technical paper on how TOR works and anonymizes data.  However, it does make the book also a type of HandBook for security and subverting Big Brother.

It’s a great book, and I highly recommend it.  After finishing this, I think I’m going to find a few of Cory’s other books.

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