Sunday, December 30, 2012

MC2 Post 1483 Building a Person of Interest's 'MACHINE'






Conceptual Art Meets Hacking.



February 22, 2012

A 'Transparency Grenade' for Would-Be Bradley Mannings

“Equipped with a tiny computer, microphone and powerful wireless antenna,” Oliver explains on the Transparency Grenade site, “the Transparency Grenade captures network traffic and audio at the site and securely and anonymously streams it to a dedicated server where it is mined for information. Email fragments, HTML pages, images and voice extracted from this data are then presented on an online, public map, shown at the location of the detonation.” The notion is that you might be a civil servant outraged at what your department or agency is keeping hidden from the world. 
You storm into a meeting, 
pull the pin, and boom! 

It’s a data leak detonation.








TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/ajgdw63   




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WIRED's Take on Julian Oliver's "ART"

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From:  http://www.wired.com

“Most importantly however it is the hyperbole and fear around containing these volatile records, of the cyber burglary, that increasingly yields assumptive logics that ultimately shape how we use networks and think about the right to information. Just as record companies claim billions in losses due to file sharing, the fear of the leak is being actively exploited by law makers to afford organisations greater opacity and thus control….” 







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The Sensor Track App for Android's Nexus 7
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What it READS:


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