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Sedmnáctiletý Marcus alias w1n5t0n je přesvědčený, že zná všechna pravidla hry – a finty, jak je obejít. Je chytrý, pohotový a vyzná se v dnešním sesíťovaném světě, takže si lehce poradí i s vlezlým špiclováním své střední školy. Jednoho dne se mu svět obrátí vzhůru nohama – vyrazí s kamarády za školu a před jeho očima dojde k teroristickému útoku na San Francisco. A protože zrovna byli ve špatnou chvíli na špatném místě, ocitnou se v moci Ministerstva vnitřní bezpečnosti, které je obratem uklidí do tajné věznice k několikadenním nevybíravým výslechům. Když je konečně propustí, zjistí Marcus, že se jeho město změnilo v policejní stát, kde se s každým zachází jako s potenciálním teroristou. Nikdo by mu neuvěřil, co se stalo, a tak mu zbývá jediné: vyřídit vnitřní bezpečnost vlastními silami. Dokáže dospívající hacker vyhrát nad úřady, které se vymkly kontrole? 1. vydání.

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to confront the dominance of Big Tech and Big Media. Corporate concentration and profits have reached unprecedented levels, leading to monopolies and monopsonies that disrupt fair competition. In this new era of "chokepoint capitalism," Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow highlight how exploitative businesses create barriers that prevent others from accessing value that rightfully belongs to them. While all workers feel the impact, creative workers face particularly harsh consequences. Examples include Amazon's digital rights management affecting book publishing, Google and Facebook diverting ad revenue from news media, and the Big Three record labels imposing lengthy contracts that diminish artists' earnings. Giblin and Doctorow analyze various industries, illustrating how corporations build "anti-competitive flywheels" that lock in users and suppliers, create hostile market conditions for newcomers, and force unfair pricing on workers. In the latter half, they propose strategies to dismantle these chokepoints, including transparency rights, collective action, radical interoperability, and minimum wages for creative work. This work urges all workers to unite and reclaim the power and profits being unjustly taken from them.

This isn't a book for people who want to fix Big Tech. It's a detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle it.

In this high-stakes thriller, the lives of California’s prison inmates are treated like stock shares. Set in 2006, Martin Hench, a self-employed forensic accountant, excels in the ongoing battle between those hiding money and those seeking it. While enjoying downtime on Catalina Island, where bison roam and overpriced fast food abounds, Martin inadvertently disrupts a scheme that sets off a decade-long chain of events. His misstep leads him into the realm of the ultra-wealthy, who view money as a mere game. They target California’s Department of Corrections, confident that their complex web of shell companies will shield them from scrutiny. Their focus is solely on the profits they can extract from the government and the vast number of prisoners under their control. This narrative serves as a powerful critique of the privatized prison system, exploring the intricate financial manipulations that contributed to the 2008 financial crash. It is a gripping follow-up to the author’s previous work, blending thrilling storytelling with a sharp social commentary.

This manual offers a comprehensive guide for individuals aiming to understand and dismantle the structures of Big Tech. It delves into the intricacies of technology, power dynamics, and the societal implications of corporate practices. Through step-by-step instructions, it empowers readers to critically analyze and challenge the dominance of major tech companies, fostering a deeper awareness of their impact on privacy, economy, and culture.

Marcus Yallow is no longer a student. California's economy has collapsed, taking his parents' jobs and his university tuition with it. Thanks to his activist past, Marcus lands a job as webmaster for a muckraking politician who promises reform. Things are never simple, though: soon Marcus finds himself embroiled in lethal political intrigue and the sharp end of class warfare, American style.

In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This is a book about the pitfalls and the opportunities that creative industries (and individuals) are confronting today — about how the old models have failed or found new footing, and about what might soon replace them. An essential read for anyone with a stake in the future of the arts, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free offers a vivid guide to the ways creativity and the Internet interact today, and to what might be coming next.

Returning to the world of Little Brother and Homeland, Attack Surface takes us five minutes into the future, to a world where everything is connected and everyone is vulnerable.

Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power — it’s the system working as intended.You'll need to create the URL from these parts since there is no field for it and you can't include external links in the description. Just replace the spaces with "/" and dot with "." below.onezero dot medium dot com how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

When Trent McCauley's obsession for making movies by reassembling footage from popular films causes his home's internet to be cut off, it nearly destroys his family. Shamed, Trent runs away to London. A new bill threatens to criminalize even harmless internet creativity. Things look bad, but the powers-that-be haven't entirely reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change people's minds...

A provocative and exhilarating tale of teen rebellion against global corporations from the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother.

Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives. With contributions from a mix of bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming writers, and including a rare story by “the father of artificial intelligence,” Dr. John McCarthy, Robot Uprisings meticulously describes the exhilarating and terrifying near-future in which humans can only survive by being cleverer than the rebellious machines they have created.

From New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow, the story of a girl who gets into gaming—and ends up on a globe-spanning crusade to stop exploitation online.

A hard-charging, hard-fighting techno-thriller detective story about a forensic accountant, Marty, who is coming out of retirement for one last job. Helping out a pal who has built a new cryptocurrency, his plans are in ruins when the keys are stolen – and a billion dollars of exposure granted to whoever got hold of them.When Marty finds out where the keys are, he quickly becomes implicated with two different criminal cartels, each more dangerous than the last...

'The tech may be more advanced, but the politics feel familiar ... The overwhelming message of Walkaway is hope [and] right now, that could not feel more timely' SciFiNow .

From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother , a major novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America Perry and Lester invent things—seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the "New Work," a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-startups like Perry and Lester's. Together, they transform the country, and Andrea Fleeks, a journo-turned-blogger, is there to document it. Then it slides into collapse. The New Work bust puts the dot.combomb to shame. Perry and Lester build a network of interactive rides in abandoned Wal-Marts across the land. As their rides, which commemorate the New Work's glory days, gain in popularity, a rogue Disney executive grows jealous, and convinces the police that Perry and Lester's 3D printers are being used to run off AK-47s. Hordes of goths descend on the shantytown built by the New Workers, joining the cult. Lawsuits multiply as venture capitalists take on a new investment strategy: backing litigation against companies like Disney. Lester and Perry's friendship falls to pieces when Lester gets the 'fatkins' treatment, turning him into a sybaritic gigolo. Then things get really interesting.

A comedy of loyalty, betrayal, sex, madness, and music-swappingArt is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without a question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth onto the world.Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe.Instant wireless communication puts everyone in touch with everyone else, twenty-four hours a day. But one thing hasn't changed: the need for sleep. The world is slowly splintering into Tribes held together by a common time zone, less than family and more than nations. Art is working to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people. But in a world without boundaries, nothing can be taken for granted-not happiness, not money, and most certainly not love.Which might explain why Art finds himself stranded on the roof of an insane asylum outside Boston, debating whether to push a pencil into his brain....

It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year. The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders, the momentum is too great; these vast programs cannot be stopped in their tracks. But there are still those Americans, mostly elderly, who cling to their red baseball caps, their grievances, their huge vehicles, their anger. To their "alternative" news sources that reassure them that their resentment is right and pure and that "climate change" is just a giant scam. And they're your grandfather, your uncle, your great-aunt. And they're not going anywhere. And they’re armed to the teeth. The Lost Cause asks: What do we do about people who cling to the belief that their own children are the enemy? When, in fact, they're often the elders that we love?

Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies, and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World. Disney World The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago 20th century.

Masha Maximov hat einen gut bezahlten Job bei der Cybersecurity-Firma Xoth Intelligence, wo sie sich im Auftrag von Regierungen weltweit in die Accounts von Dissidenten und Aktivisten hackt. Manchmal nutzt Masha ihre Fertigkeiten aber auch, denselben Aktivisten und Dissidenten dabei zu helfen, einem Hackerangriff zu entgehen. Dieses gefährliche Doppelspiel war aufregend, solange es um Leute in anderen Ländern ging. Doch der neueste Auftraggeber von Xoth Intelligence ist die Regierung von einem Land ähnlich wie Mashas Heimat. Masha steht vor der schwersten Entscheidung ihres Lebens …

Nach vielen Jahren in Flüchtlingsheimen und Notunterkünften kann Salima endlich in ein Hochhausapartment umziehen. Das Gebäude ist zwar neu, aber damit fangen die Probleme erst an: Der intelligente Toaster gibt auf einmal den Geist auf und nimmt nur noch das Brot der Toastermarke an. Dann fällt der Kühlschrank aus. Als Salima feststellt, dass selbst der Fahrstuhl die ärmeren Mieter benachteiligt, fasst sie einen Entschluss. Es muss doch einen Weg geben, sich in die Haushaltsgeräte zu hacken und sie wieder frei verfügbar zu machen! Gesagt, getan ...

Das Rote Team greift an, das Blaue Team verteidigt – so sind die Regeln in der Cyber-Security. Marty Hench ist ein alter Veteran des Silicon Valley, und er war schon immer Team Rot. Als IT-Experte und Ermittler hat er Konzerne, Oligarchen und Drogenkartelle verfolgt. Sein neuester Auftrag: gestohlene Security-Keys zurückholen, die ein Milliardenvermögen in Crypto-Währung wert sind. Aber dann dreht sich der Spieß um, Marty wird vom Jäger zum Gejagten – und nichts hasst er mehr, als im Blauen Team spielen zu müssen. Doch diesmal ist es ein tödliches Spiel …