hacks
Weaponized Sound
Well, it looks like we called it three years ago.
During the G20 protests, we saw the first use against civilians of the LRAD sound weapons.
Apparently this is “change we can believe in.”
Now, politics aside, I am slightly frustrated at the outrage over this issue, not because I think using weaponized sound is a good thing, […]
Boredom is Counter-revolutionary.
“…I consider
the potential of thousands of people with recorders, portable and
stationary, messages passed along like signal drums, a parody of the
President’s speech up and down the balconies, in and out open windows,
through walls, over courtyards, taken up by barking dogs, muttering bums,
[…]
physical resistance in digital culture
so ive been hearing a lot lately about the end of the internet as we know it.
in this desolate post-internet world of 2012, will the people truly sit back and let much of the functionality of the most important communications device conceived be taken away from them so easily?
considering recent attacks on prominent internet companies, […]
“Postscript on the Societies of Control” by Gilles Deleuze
I. Historical
Foucault located the disciplinary societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the outset of the twentieth. They initiate the organization of vast spaces of enclosure. The individual never ceases passing from one closed environment to another, each having its own laws: first the family; then the school (”you are no longer in your family”); then the barracks (”you are no longer at school”); then the factory; from time to time the hospital; possibly the prison, the preeminent instance of the enclosed environment. It’s the prison that serves as the analogical model: at the sight of some laborers, the heroine of Rossellini’s Europa ‘51 could exclaim, “I thought I was seeing convicts.”
dateline gets fucking pwned.
so, the guys behind the highly popular catch a predator series on dateline decided to attend defcon this year. defcon being a yearly hacker convention where hackers research security issues in a live environment. michelle madigan, a dateline producer, decided to show up at defcon without a press pass and with a hidden […]
2009 The Institute of Illogical Operation. 