Comments on: Beyond Biometrics: The Future of Surveillance

By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:58:59 +0000

I’ve noticed a few articles lately that mention Google’s algorithim but don’t do much more than mention it. This article makes it an official trend. Google should be worried. “They” are pointing readers in Google’s direction.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/01/memeorandum-aggregator

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US Romantic: “Invocations” Song Cycle - [tmbchr]â„¢ — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:46:55 +0000

[...] Speaking of surveilling me, try YouTube: where at least the user gets to determine what content derived from their lives is made public… [...]

By: Reality Mining >> Data Re-Creation >> Time Travel - [tmbchr]â„¢

Reality Mining >> Data Re-Creation >> Time Travel - [tmbchr]â„¢ — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:20:41 +0000

[...] Continuing on the thread from yesterday’s discussion of omnipresent surveillance systems and what to do about them. This one’s a little more conjectural, but interesting nonetheless. [...]

By: JK

JK — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:13:31 +0000

Illegal to be fake on the Internet soon?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_end_of_online_anonymity.php

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:26:13 +0000

Don’t worry, the new and improved internet will be free and filtered for our convenience. What kind of pervert would need the old style internet?

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/fcc-chair-to-push-free-but

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:20:46 +0000

Some interesting links for you;

A book called “Here Comes Everyone”.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/11/here_comes_ever.html

A British MP gets arrested for possession of information.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsto...-under-the-Official-Secrets-Acts.html

More censorship stuff.

http://www.chillingeffects.org/faq.cgi

By: David Sweeney

David Sweeney — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:54:04 +0000

Realinfo or Disinfo?

Analysis: data mining doesn’t work for spotting terrorists

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/2...snt-work-for-spotting-terrorists.html

By: David Sweeney

David Sweeney — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:52:25 +0000

yeah, ever since I re-read Cryptonomicon a year or so ago I’ve been thinking about random noise generators for my data wake. Since it seemed like to secure/encrypt you would need ever increasing power that in the end would ultimately be broken… It seemed like a simple signal / noise solution might be more graceful.

Something that would not only send out random request / random interval http traffic, manage say a list of rss feeds based on random interests, view youtube videos, download podcasts, pretty much imitate normal web traffic.

You could probably manually create something similar with different profiles on your pc. It would also be a good meta programming experiment. Completely immerse yourself in one social group for some length of time and then change info / communication conduits. But it would be a lot of work and a time sink.

So having something that automated it would be much better. And having it run as a screen saver in the background would be even better. Or, have it run through some kind of noise network that’s distributed across other computers like the SETI screen saver app.

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:24:26 +0000

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/c...m?chan=magazine+channel_what%27s+next
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/05/22/...hone-tech-wire-cx_ag_0523reality.html

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:10:42 +0000

Could something similar be done on the net? Some kind of random noise generation in your data wake? Something that engages in the background or in screen saver mode? Just make it harder for the watchers to lock onto a signal?

Trying to secure / encrypt just seems to get harder and harder. Maybe itâ€™s easier to just add noise?

Been thinking about exactly this all day!

It’s like the internet equivalent of turning on your washing machine to have a conversation so that it can’t be as easily overheard…

Any options, any possibilities already out there? Automated surfing algorithms? It would be bonus if those things could also return valuable and usable information to you, their master…

By: David Sweeney

David Sweeney — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:51:00 +0000

Back when I was doing some RAW, Prometheus Rising type exercises I subscribed and read a wide range of magazines. Example: The Nation National Review. Consequently, I receive a wide variety of marketing mail and during the election survey phone calls.

Could something similar be done on the net? Some kind of random noise generation in your data wake? Something that engages in the background or in screen saver mode? Just make it harder for the watchers to lock onto a signal?

Trying to secure / encrypt just seems to get harder and harder. Maybe it’s easier to just add noise?

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:21:50 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_tab

It’s a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it’s going right by you, that it’s left you altogether. But if you’re doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/353283/surveillance-tmbchr