Eigenlijk zou ik hieraan meehelpen maar door tijdsgebrek lukte dat helaas niet. Update: Voor networkcultures.org heb ik er wel een verslag over geschreven.

paraplay, Donderdag 26 oktober in Paradiso
Deuren open 20:00 uur
Aanvang 21:00 uur
Entree 10 euro incl. lidmaatschap

DJ’s of Thoughts in Paradiso

ParaPlay is een duik in de wereld van profiling, tagging en security. Op donderdag 26 oktober beleef je in Paradiso kunstprojecten met als titels Dat-a, Orchestra of Anxiety en Live to Tell: Surveilling, Profiling and Fixing Identities. TJ’s (DJ’s of Thoughts) zetten je aan tot nadenken over hoe jouw persoonlijke gegevens in allerlei databases sneller de wereld over reizen dan je fysieke lichaam.

Je iPod playlist wordt bij de ingang gescand - als je die nog niet via www.paraplay.nl had ge-upload. Je krijgt een zendertje
waardoor je bewegingen door Paradiso worden gevolgd - je gedragingen worden zichtbaar en zo word je gewezen op je
schijnbaar triviale keuzes die je op zo’n avond maakt. Met een zeer bijzondere harp bespeel je zelf (met handschoenen aan!)
projecties van bewakingsbeelden en geluidseffecten. Je ziet video’s over de controlecultuur, over consumer profiling, surveillance en de impact van nieuwe technologieën op identiteit en privacy. En nog veel meer.

De top 50 van vaakst gespeelde nummers uit de iPod playlists van aanwezigen wordt gedraaid en gemixt door DJ Paul Jay. Je verdient punten met je playlist, je kunt op nummers stemmen, elkaar sms-en en in contact komen met muzikaal gelijkgestemden. Uiteindelijk wint degene die de meeste muzikale matches heeft met andere bezoekers: een doorlopend entreebewijs voor Paradiso tot het eind van 2006!
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Wired News: Surveillance Works Both Ways

In an attempt to establish equity in the world of surveillance, participants at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Seattle this week took to the streets to ferret out surveillance cameras and turn the tables on offensive eyes taking their picture

Who Profits from Security Holes?
How much junk can get installed on a user’s PC by merely visiting a single site? See the movie!!

it’s about time we come with a free software variant!!! We are working on it …

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washingtonpost.com
‘Google With Judgment’

By David Ignatius

Tuesday, October 5, 2004; Page A25

Imagine for a moment that you could study the ebb and flow of public discussion about American politics as if it were a computer graphic. What would this database of “aggregated thought” tell you about the presidential campaign debates?

It happens that a former Republican campaign strategist named Charles M. McLean has created just such a database. His consulting company, Denver Research Group Inc., monitors more than 7,000 sources on a constant, real-time basis — giving him a window on what he estimates is about 80 percent of all original political content around the world. Using a combination of computer algorithms and human analysis, he sifts this mass of information to discern the “tonalities” that shape global events. This approach has identified key political trends one to two weeks before those changes appear in traditional poll numbers, he says.

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The Department of Defense is handing out contracts for a project to record what soldiers see and do in battle zones. The new initiative closely resembles another, called LifeLog, that the Pentagon scrapped months ago. Wired.com article by Noah Shachtman:

It’s been seven months since the Pentagon pulled the plug on LifeLog, its controversial project to archive almost everything about a person. But now, the Defense Department seems ready to revive large portions of the program under a new name.

Using a series of sensors embedded in a GI’s gear, the Advanced Soldier Sensor Information System and Technology, or ASSIST, project aims to collect what a soldier sees, says and does in a combat zone — and then to weave those events into digital memories, so commanders can have a better sense of how the fight unfolded.

read more, also read about the total information awareness system

see also my previous post on the lifelog project.

Photographs taken by privacy activist and writer Katherine Albrecht at the Frontline Expo 2004 conference are “unauthorized” according to Advanstar. The event management/PR firm has threatened to ban Albrecht, founder and director of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) from future events it organizes unless she “refrain[s] from making the photos available.”

The photographs in dispute show Checkpoint RFID-enabled prototypes of Abercrombie & Fitch, Calvin Klein, Champion and other name brand clothing labels.

“The notion that I somehow ’surreptitiously’ photographed the displays at your event is baffling,” Albrecht said in a written response to Advanstar. She characterized Advanstar’s threat as “an attempt to censor images that fairly and accurately depict the activities that took place at their conference.”

Advanstar’s censorship “request,” and Albrecht’s response are posted at:

http://www.spychips.com/frontline-letter.html

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privacy page updated
most notably these tools are cool:
* ID blaster Plus - Change ID numbers from IE, Media Player, O/S frequenly, destroy tracking tactics and security risks! Improved new version!
* MRU Blaster

also this pages might come in handy securing your xp machine:
* protecting ur computer
* free security tools

A very nice movie which shows how close we are to the state of affairs in George Orwell’s book 1984.

“Orwell Rolls in his Grave” proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the oft-used BuzzFlash claim that we have entered into an Orwellian parallel universe, with the arrival of the radical right wing Republican Party in full power, is true and accurate.
This is a must see, a wake-up call to America that we have already entered an Orwellian world when history, context, and language are redefined daily by the government, as the media broadcasts the new version of the truth without question. Every news cycle starts with a clean slate for the White House “Ministry of Truth” to write on.

This movie is good! Much better than Michael Moore’s fahrenheit 9/11, also in it’s critic on the bush administration. Must see!

to download this movie via torrent click this link: http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/download_15662

Orwell Rolls in his Grave - A Film by Robert Kane Pappas: DVD description
imdb link

TIAS nu ook in nederland: Nederland krijgt derde geheime dienst
In een brief aan de Tweede Kamer kondigt minister Remkes van Binnenlandse Zaken een nieuwe en zelfstandige geheime dienst aan.

De minister wil de vorig jaar opgerichte Nationale Sigint Organisatie (NSO) verzelfstandigen. De NSO is opgericht door de AIVD en MIVD voor het afluisteren van satellietverkeer. Tussen de twee inlichtingendiensten is daarvoor in oktober 2003 een convenant gesloten. De NSO zou onderdeel blijven van de MIVD maar informatie verzamelen ten behoeve van beide diensten.

What is RFID? - How “spychips” pose a threat to your privacy