Little Brother - Fighting the Government

I have finally finished the book 'Little Brother', and yes, I finished it in time!
I am really happy that I red this book, even though Lord of the Flies seemed very interesting and the movie of Secret Life of Bees was very good, I am sure I made the right choise.

After Marcus is released he has a lot of mixed feelings and emotions. He is probably a bit scared and he does not tell what happened to anyone, because DHS said they would get him if he did. So he tells his parents that he was put in caranteen in Oakland for several days for security reasons.

Marcus decides to fight the government, or DHS to be more precise. There is a lot of reasons for this, as I said he had a lot of mixed emotions after he got released from the terrible DHS prison. The two things I believe played a huge role in his decision is the fact that he felt very disapointed and angry with him self for giving in to the DHS' demands to unlock his phone and give them his privacy. Maybe even more important, the DHS still got Daryll, his best friend!

Marcus starts the fight quietly. He notices that the DHS has started to surveillance him. He noticed a few things, and he was a bit paranoid because that could only be the top of the iceberg. Then he starts talking about crypting of information in pure MacGyver style, and before you know it, he has powered up his Xbox which was handed out for free because the games for it was so expensive, though people cracked it and used it to play free games, which was a bummer for Microsoft I'd guess. The operating system used for the cracked xbox had traces of ParanoidLinux, which was a very anonym and safe operating system. He burns cd-copys with the OP and hands them out, this is how he creates the X-Net. It is a net of xbox Universal users. The whole network is encrypted, so the DHS can't see what they are doing, nor find it. Though they do it later.

Using the X-Net he encourages the other x-netters to start jamming. Marcus was randomly detained because of his 'unusual' travel route, and he was asked some routine questions. This apparently was very, very offensive, so he gets pissed of. They found his travel route by tracing his 'fast pass' which is pretty similiar to our 'busskort'. As a result of this he encourages the other x-netters to start jamming as I said earlier. Jamming is to copy other 'fast passes' so eventually the DHS will think everyone has a unusual travel route, because the passes gets registrated on places where the original pass have never been, get it?

When people start jamming, a lot of people get pulled over for routine questions, almost everyone gets pulled over because the system is messed with. The battle between David and Goliath has started!