Who Is Cory Doctorow's Little Brother?

In the starting pages of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, Marcus Yallow a.k.a “wln5st0n” is caught during the aftermath, of a devastating terrorist attack that hits San Francisco's Bay Bridge. Marcus is only 17 years old but he figures he knows the ways of the networking world. He’s smart, fast, wise and has no trouble outsmarting his school’s security system. Marcus and his friends are kidnapped by the Department Of Homeland Security and are brutally interrogated for days. When they are released Marcus notices that his city has turned into police state where every citizen is treated as a potential terrorist. Considering only one option, to take down the DHS himself.

Marcus Yallow, is as teenage hacker, who finds pleasure in hacking cell phones, talking back to authority figures and can repeat the Declaration of Independance of memory. “Little Brother” is a thrilling and entertaining book and has a interesting view on Internet Civil Rights. Little Brother, is a good handbook that guides us through RFID cloners, cryptography and Bayesian Math. Marcus Yallow spreads his message using a network made out of an Xbox.
RFID cloners, cryptography and Bayesian Math, is something Cory Doctorow knows well. The author this book is a , speaker, teacher, writer of novels and short stories and editor of a
After Marcus was detained by the DHS he learns to how to stand up for himself and others. “Little Brother” is a great book. This novel even comes with two essays and has even been available for a free download. A Great thing about Little Brother is that every page gives us an idea of better relationship to technologies. This is demonstrated from what Marcus Yallow said during the first few pages of the book. “My technology was working for me, serving me, protecting me. It wasn’t spying on me. This is why I loved technology: is you used it right, it could give you power and