Little Brother (German translation) PDf download here:
The novel "Little Brother" is the modern version of "1984", it largely reflects the reaction of Regierungsaparaten Today the outline of action - reaction - follow results.
Yallow Marcus, 17-year-old computer geek and a high school student in San Francisco truant, with a few friends to school, when the Bay Bridge a terrorist attack is perpetrated, are in the over one thousand people died.
Subsequently, takes over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) investigates. Marcus is with his friends at the wrong time, wrong place and is a suspect detained by the DHS and held for several days on Treasure Iceland. It is treated and unworthy must not carry out his civil rights.
addition, the city is monitored by DHS using cameras and RFIDs comprising electronically. California is on the way to a Security and police state.
After Marcus is released, he decides to defend its freedom and control over his life, his dignity and his privacy against the DHS and recover. With other like-minded people of his generation, he encodes the RFIDs other people to secretly confused so the surveillance systems and is building a computer network that can communicate in which he and other anonymous and private. Although on this network ultimately nothing more happens than that is just communicated and that meetings be arranged, the DHS will perceive the network as a threat, simply because it allows her to uncontrolled communication and organization. In an undoubtedly moving resolution succeeds in the end lost with the help of the press that to act at the behest of the governor, DHS's authorization, in California.
that end at all well is located, because a reasonably intact public and a working press exists, that confidence in the friends with whom Marcus has grown, is justified and that the separation of powers and democracy in the USA to before work, because it is the governor of California, referring to public pressure, the DHS from California and due process prevails again.
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