You can d/load Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" book..
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ You can also pick up the dead tree version at the Library. Complete with an afterword by Bruce Schneier and the Xbox linux hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang. Lots of good Linuxy / OSS / Crypto meat. Very paranoid. Well, not actually. I remember all too well in the Bad Old Days in another Time and Place when my own brother got "Disappeared" for a few days. He went to a weekly bible study group at a certain house outside which there was no parking. So he parked a couple of houses down. Outside a house of "Interest" to "Big Brother". ie. I remember all too well how, in that other country and time, the determination to fight terror, turned the state into the biggest meanest terrorist organization of them all. ie. "Little Brother" is spot on. It can be a bit heavy going at times, with a fair amount of techie detail, but quite a lot of fun stuff too. But it is probably the most important reminder since Orwell of how taking shortcuts in protecting our way of life, destroys all that is worth protecting. My brother was lucky, he was one of the ones released. His colleague never reappeared. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
