Book: Behind the Smart World – saving, deleting, resurfacing data

Book: Behind the Smart World – saving, deleting, resurfacing data

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Book: Behind the Smart World – saving, deleting and resurfacing of data
as part of the AMRO Research Lab 2015

edited by: Kairus.org – Linda Kronman, Andreas Zingerle
published by: servus.at | process coordinator: Us(c)hi Reiter
layout by: lafkon.net

The publication is available both analog as a printed book and digital in form of a pdf, an epub and a web version.

Content:

Us(c)hi Reiter/servus.at Foreword
KairUs: Introduction
Fieke Jansen: If not us, who stores and owns our data?
Ivar Veermae : Center of Doubt
Emilio Vavarella: The Google Trilogy
Leo Selvaggio: Surveillance, McLuhan and the Social Prosthesis
Marloes de Valk: What remains? The way we save ourselves
Research Team “Times of Waste”: TIMES OF WASTE
Interview with Audrey Samson : Digital Data Funerals
Stefan Tiefengraber: Technology-based Art and Destruction
Dr. Michael Sonntag: Third Person Data
KairUs: Artistic strategies for dealing with resurfacing data
Interview with Michaela Lakova: Deleted file information is like a fossil…
KairUs: Strategies Against Phishing and Fake Business Websites

 

 

Privacy and Viruses

At the ArtLab we had some discussions around privacy, surveillance and how our data is spread online, so the two first videos are points of views on these topics. One of the projects was looking more closely into what viruses are on the hard-drives. Therefore Mikko Hyppönens talk might be interesting giving a nutshell introduction into history of computer viruses.

The NSA are not the Stasi: Godwin for mass surveillance by  Cory Doctorow (Electronic Frontier Foundation)


Beyond The Camera Panopticon by Aral Balkan (Founder and lead designer Ind.ie)


“The Cyber Arms Race” – Mikko Hyppönen, F-Secure – Guest Lecture 20.1.2015 at Aalto University

Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets

At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds a secret.

Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive – like the one on your personal computer – storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.

In the process, it’s turned an office staple into a digital time-bomb packed with highly-personal or sensitive data.

If you’re in the identity theft business it seems this would be a pot of gold.

“The type of information we see on these machines with the social security numbers, birth certificates, bank records, income tax forms,” John Juntunen said, “that information would be very valuable.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/digital-photocopiers-loaded-with-secrets/