In the book Little Brother, Marcus explains that he runs an invisible to Windows version of Firefox. He knows that it is invisible because the program is called $SYS$Firefox. He is able to get on the internet without being traced or logged by the school, since he is using his school issued laptop. These invisible programs are invisible to the operating system and aren’t able to be seen on the listings of the hard drive or process monitor.
I think it is really neat that people are able to find a backdoor to get on the internet and do what they want. Sometimes schools have website blocked for no reason. Every now and then, it would be nice to access Facebook or some other social-networking site on my SchoolBook, especially if I am at home. Schools should be up with the times and realize that we are using these sites as a means of communication to our other classmates. It’s not your mother’s networking anymore.
I thought Marcus’ character was super smart in this chapter. He knows his rights with the law and even challenges his principal. He cracks his SchoolBook within a month and runs invisible programs on it so he can use it like a personal laptop with no trail. He puts rocks in his shoe to throw off the gait recognition software. I think that is just awesome. I don’t know if I would think of any of these things to get past security.
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