Cory Doctorow/Little Brother/60
character from some movie are you? What's your emotional type? enough to hand an Xnet disc to.
They fill them in and their friends fill them in and everyone
compares their results. Harmless fun. I needed them now.
But the quiz that had taken over the blogs of the Xnet that night I woke Jolu up by ringing his cell phone and hanging up after
was what scared me, because it was anything but harmless: the first ring, three times in a row. A minute later, he was up on
Xnet and we were able to have a secure chat. I pointed him to my
What's your sex blogpost on the radio vans and he came back a minute later all
freaked out.
What grade are you in?
> You sure they're looking for us?
What school do you go to?
In response I sent him to the quiz.
Where in the city do you live? > OMG we're doomed
The quizzes plotted the results on a map with colored pushpins
for schools and neighborhoods, and made lame recommendations
> No it's not that bad but we need to
figure out who we can trust
for places to buy pizza and stuff.
> How?
But look at those questions. Think about my answers: > That's what I wanted to ask you -- how
many people can you totally vouch for
Male like trust them to the ends of the
earth?
12
> Um 20 or 30 or so
Chavez High > I want to get a bunch of really
trustworthy people together and do a
Potrero Hill key-exchange web of trust thing
There were only two people in my whole school who matched Web of trust is one of those cool crypto things that I'd read
that profile. Most schools it would be the same. If you wanted to about but never tried. It was a nearly foolproof way to make sure
figure out who the Xnetters were, you could use these quizzes to that you could talk to the people you trusted, but that no one else
find them all. could listen in. The problem is that it requires you to physically
meet with the people in the web at least once, just to get started.
That was bad enough, but what was worse was what it implied:
someone from the DHS was using the Xnet to get at us. The Xnet > I get it sure. That's not bad. But how
was compromised by the DHS. you going to get everyone together for the key-signing?
We had spies in our midst. > That's what I wanted to ask you about
-- how can we do it without getting
# busted?
I'd given Xnet discs to hundreds of people, and they'd done the Jolu typed some words and erased them, typed more and erased
same. I knew the people I gave the discs to pretty well. Some of them.
them I knew very well. I've lived in the same house all my life and
I've made hundreds and hundreds of friends over the years, from > Darryl would know
people who went to daycare with me to people I played soccer
with, people who LARPed with me, people I met clubbing,
I typed.
people I knew from school. My ARG team were my closest > God, this was the stuff he was great
friends, but there were plenty of people I knew and trusted at.
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