About the book
Seventeen-year-old Marcus, also known as w1n5t0n, knows how to slip past the clumsy surveillance at his San Francisco high school. Then a major terrorist attack hits the city and he and his friends are seized by the Department of Homeland Security and interrogated for days in a secret prison. Once released, Marcus finds his city turned into a police state that treats every citizen as a suspect, and he decides to use his hacking skills to take on the DHS. Cory Doctorow released the novel free under a Creative Commons license, with afterwords by Bruce Schneier and Andrew Huang. It won the Prometheus Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and was a Hugo finalist.
James Stanley, founder of SMS Privacy, read it as a teenager and said it was the first thing that showed him authoritarianism could happen in the future and not only in the past.
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James Stanley (Founder/SMS Privacy)
"Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow is a dystopian science fiction story about a teenager who ends up on the wrong side of an authoritarian state. I read it while I was a teenager, and it's the first thing that made me realise that authoritarianism isn't just something that happens in the past. It can happen in the future too. Looking back on it now, the writing is certainly aimed at a younger audience, but I enjoyed it very much at the time.
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