5- So, this is what it would be like for parents to have a child disappear for 5 days and then suddenly show back up. If I were Marcus, I don’t know if I would have told the truth. I mean, after withholding privileges and being beaten, I would have been freaked out about telling the truth and then getting picked back up by DHS and detained again and treated so bad.
I thought it was brilliant that Marcus took a picture of what his laptop looked like. I mean, who would remember the fine details so many months later? I want to know how DHS got to his laptop to put the tracking device on his keyboard; that is crazy. And then the Xbox thing was awesome. I had no idea that this type of thing was even possible. To run a real computer operating system on the Xbox instead of only playing games on it. And then, to go so far as to use a Paranoid version of something so that the government can’t track it is brilliant. Wow.
“It is a fictional operating system set in the book little brother(Cory Doctorow) that assumes that its operator is under assault from the government (it was intended for use by Chinese and Syrian dissidents), and it does everything it can to keep your communications and documents a secret. It even throws up a bunch of "chaff" communications that are supposed to disguise the fact that you're doing anything covert. So while you're receiving a political message one character at a time, Paranoid Linux is pretending to surf the Web and fill in questionnaires and flirt in chat-rooms. Meanwhile, one in every five hundred characters you receive is your real message, a needle buried in a huge haystack.” Quote from Cory Doctorow.
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/2008/06/05/paranoidlinux-now-under-development/
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