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 Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:57 pm
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Not anime.
It's Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. The cover states it as "a rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion."
The basic premise is this: there is a 9/11-esque terrorist attack in San Francisco, California. Homeland Security--that is, the Department of Homeland Security--moves in and places the entire state under an ocean of surveillance and begins to deny citizens civil rights under the pretense of protecting "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" . . . in that order.
The protagonist, a 17-year-old hacker, is caught up in this. When you think hacker, don't think a malevolent virus-distributor that ruins everybody's hardware, though. This is a more believable, "real world"-seeming character. I am pleased with the author's writing skills.
After experiencing some of the basically illegal treatment the DHS is giving out, the protagonist attempts to fight it the only way he knows how: by organizing a widespread protest group that operates within the invisible highways of the virtual world.
It starts out inadvertently, but he sets out to prove that the war on terrorism is already lost when our own elected government begins to deny us our Constitutional rights.
It shows that a system which a group of intelligent teenage kids can mock and humble simply isn't effective nor logical (not to mention legal) accomplishes nothing against true terrorists.
This book delivers a resounding message and is very interesting purely in terms of technical aspects of security--including describing how cameras can memorize your walking gait, facial recognition, and many other things.
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.
One day read, personally. Couldn't put it down.
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:59 am
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:29 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 4:39 pm
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