Little Borther by Cory Doctorow’s was interesting but not my favorite book. I could not get into the high school gaming hobby but till this day I’ve always had a lot of respect for techno geeks, and after reading this book, I have even more. It takes one smart and patient person to break a system.This book just seemed too fictional/fantasy-like. I thought it would be a good book to pick a passage from to read to a class for connections to technology in the classroom or technology in general.
I do think this book is meant to pose the question about what an information society means: does it mean total control, or unheard-of liberty? The story definitely takes place in the future. One of the things the story shows is that exchanging privacy for security doesn’t even necessarily guarantee security. The book is very information in the story telling.I learned about cryptography, spam filters, and what a Paranoid Linux operating system but then again I did get lost in some of the language and terms.
