They call it playa-foot, when the alkali dust dries out your skin so much that it starts to crack and peel. I understood that: playa dust is hard on your feet. Also, the man holding the balloon was naked. I turned around slowly to get a panorama and saw that the man walking past me was holding the string for a gigantic helium balloon a hundred yards overhead, from which dangled a digital video camera. Everything was ruggedized for the fine, blowing dust, mostly through the simple expedient of sticking it in a zip-lock bag, which is what I’d done with my phone. Pretty much everyone was holding a camera of some kind - mostly phones, of course, but also big SLRs and even old-fashioned film cameras, including a genuine antique plate camera whose operator hid out from the dust under a huge black cloth that made me hot just to look at it. But the wind had just kicked up, and there was a lot of playa dust - fine gypsum sand, deceptively soft and powdery, but alkali enough to make your eyes burn and your skin crack - and after two days in the desert, I had learned that it was better to be hot than to choke. The sun was high, the temperature well over a hundred degrees, and breathing through the embroidered cotton scarf made it even more stifling.

I adjusted my burnoose, covering up my nose and mouth and tucking its edge into place under the lower rim of my big, scratched goggles. Homeland Cory Doctoroy YA novel about a hacktivist Chapter 1 of HomelandĪttending Burning Man made me simultaneously one of the most photographed people on the planet and one of the least surveilled humans in the modern world. Note: our flipbooks are not the best for novel length books, it’s designed with picture books in mind, so I’m for now I’m posting the read online versions of these text based or chapter books, for those who don’t want to download, as a html version in a post (as in the link above). (See the afterward he contributed below, following the sample chapter). Aaron died in 2013, the same year the book was released. Tragically it is believed that similar events, namely excessive federal prosecution for a harmless hacking crime, cost Aaron his life. Aaron’s words in the afterward echo poignantly with the message of how true to life this novel actually is, as does Cory’s endnote. The novel includes two afterword essays by computer security researcher and hacker Jacob Appelbaum, and computer programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. This time, he has information that will expose the corruption inside the government’s security contractors, but doing so can cost him his job.

Homeland Cory Doctoroy YA novel about a hacktivist – In this, the sequel to Cory’s extremely popular Little Brother, the protagonist, a hacktivist, Marcus Yallow is again caught in a tricky situation.

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