Marcus
Yallow, high school student and computer genius, was at war with the Department
of Homeland Security. No he wasn’t a terrorist. He was a victim of the war on
terror..
Marcus and his best friend Darryl had ditched school that particular
afternoon, to be part of a four-person team playing the Alternate Reality Game
Harajuki Fun Madness. The team had just met up at the cable cars in downtown San
Francisco when terrorists blew up the Bay Bridge and the BART. In the chaos and
confusion that followed, Marcus and two other team members were captured and
mercilessly interrogated by the Department of Homeland Security.
After being
released Marcus found that San Francisco was being turned into a prison in the
name of security. The DHS had the power to spy on, detain, and interrogate
anyone they wanted. All the technology Marcus loved was being turned against
the public to invade their privacy and make them feel powerless. Even worse,
Marcus’s family was being torn apart by their differences over the crackdown.
The Department of Homeland Security had declared war on the privacy of
everyone in San Francisco, the guilty and the innocent. Marcus could see that
even if his father couldn’t.
What he also knew was that if you use it right,
technology could help you fight back. It was time for a counterattack.
Marcus
Yallow and a group of online rebels called the Xnetters are fighting back
against the privacy and civil rights violations that have turned San Francisco
into a prison. Their plans are risky, but they just might work.
Little
Brother by Cory Doctorow
(booktalk by Tom Reynolds, librarian and author)
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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