It seems that once you follow a genius, you often find that other geniuses had already thought about that topic. Science fiction writer Cory Doctorow wrote a kids' book called Little Brother, whose plot revolves around high-school kids successfully culture-jamming against the Department of Homeland Security after it runs amok and starts kidnapping San Francisco residents into secret prisons. Lots of cool tech tricks are described, which frequently really work in the real world. One of them is a software distro called ParanoidLinux that runs on discarded zero-cost Microsoft XBox gaming hardware, creating an encrypted overlay network called Xnet. I'll let you read the story without saying more. ParanoidLinux is definitely one man's vision of solid Freedom Box software, useful when your government is trying to spy out and suppress anybody who disagrees with what it's doing. It's well worth reading that section. Cory offers all his books for free public downloads under a CC license. He makes money when people buy his books; but he gets more readers when people download and share them, and he wants both money and readers, so he does both. Get Little Brother in dozens of online formats (or printed copies) here: http://craphound.com/littlebrother/ http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ Search the online format for ParanoidLinux, then start reading... and if and when you get hooked, go back and start from the beginning. When you're done, give the book or file to a kid you know. John _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE