kevan + surveillance 133
Nagoya University and Fujitsu Develop World's First Technology to Detect Overtrust Situations Based on Voice Pitch and Level : Fujitsu Global
9 weeks ago by kevan
"By combining this technology for detecting situations of overtrust from voices over the phone with the detection of characteristic keywords, Nagoya University and Fujitsu have also developed basic technology for detecting remittance-soliciting phone phishing scams."
phones
surveillance
scams
sound
language
9 weeks ago by kevan
How to see around corners : Nature News & Comment
9 weeks ago by kevan
"Photons bounce off the wall onto the hidden object and back to the wall, scattering each time, before a small fraction eventually reaches the camera, each at a slightly different time. It's this time resolution that provides the key to revealing the hidden geometry."
light
surveillance
technology
9 weeks ago by kevan
pyvideo.org - Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes
9 weeks ago by kevan
Firing computer-controlled water at squirrels. "By the end, they don't care. [...] They'll just sit there eating, getting spritzed. I thought for sure this would be the solution."
mammals
water
surveillance
police
9 weeks ago by kevan
CCTV police officer 'chased himself' after being mistaken for burglar - Telegraph
february 2012 by kevan
"[The CCTV] operator radioed that he had seen someone “acting suspiciously” in the area. But he failed to realise that it was actually the plain-clothed officer he was watching on the screen."
surveillance
illusions
february 2012 by kevan
TrackMeNot
january 2012 by kevan
"TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines. [...] It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles."
web
surveillance
illusions
via:zarba
january 2012 by kevan
Start 2012 By Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions
january 2012 by kevan
"Try guessing how many apps have permissions to access your private information... Now click the icons and get ready for a surprise!"
web
secrets
surveillance
january 2012 by kevan
The Dangerous Politics of Internet Humor in China - NYTimes.com
november 2011 by kevan
"[Censorship] forces people to invent indirect ways to get their meaning across, and humor works as a natural form of encryption."
china
humour
surveillance
illusions
november 2011 by kevan
Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet | Danger Room | Wired.com
october 2011 by kevan
"A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones."
viruses
war
surveillance
october 2011 by kevan
FAA Looks Into News Corp’s Daily Drone, Raising Questions About Who Gets To Fly Drones in The U.S. - Kashmir Hill - The Not-So Private Parts - Forbes
august 2011 by kevan
"[Ryan Calo] has voiced concerns [about] paparazzi drones that could be used to fly around using facial recognition technology to find and obsessively photograph Brad Pitt. [...] After [News Corp's] The Daily broadcast some incredible footage of Alabama after it was devastated by storms, UAS Vision reported that The Daily owns a MicroDrone MD4-1000."
robots
surveillance
air
law
news
via:amuchmoreexotic
august 2011 by kevan
New Statesman - The bugger, bugged
april 2011 by kevan
Hugh Grant secretly records a conversation with a NoTW journalist, about phone tapping. "You know, you just . . . sat outside Buckingham Palace with a £59 scanner you bought at Argos and get Prince Charles and everything he said."
phones
surveillance
crime
news
secrets
april 2011 by kevan
I Can Stalk U - Raising awareness about inadvertent information sharing
august 2010 by kevan
"Most people don't realize that the action of automatic geotagging takes place on [any picture taken with] their smart phones, either because it is enabled by default, not exposed the user as an option, or was asked and then forgotten."
gps
photography
twitter
surveillance
secrets
august 2010 by kevan
Courthouse News Service - Families Say Schools Snoop in Their Homes With District-Issued Laptops & Webcams
february 2010 by kevan
"The named plaintiffs say they learned that Big Brother was in their home when an assistant principal told their son that the school district knew he 'was engaged in improper behavior in his home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in minor plaintiff's personal laptop issued by the school district.'"
surveillance
children
computers
via:holly
february 2010 by kevan
Panopticlick
january 2010 by kevan
"When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer's configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer. Some companies are already using technology to try to identify individual computers."
web
surveillance
secrets
fonts
via:brendan
january 2010 by kevan
Privacy implications have Google running scared - News, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent
december 2009 by kevan
"We are blocking out people's faces if people try to use Google Goggles to search for information about them. Until we understand the implications of the facial-recognition tool we have decided to make sure we block out people's faces."
surveillance
faces
photography
via:antonia
december 2009 by kevan
Zeppelin Sub-Cloud or Spy Basket: The Ultimate Secret | Invisible Themepark
november 2009 by kevan
"A sub-cloud was an aerodynamic 'car' that was lowered on a cable below the zeppelin for purposes of spying or simply 'spying' the conditions below the clouds. [...] Often, the sub-cloud hung up to 500 feet below the zeppelin."
transport
air
surveillance
november 2009 by kevan
Internet Eyes
october 2009 by kevan
Spiders-style CCTV surveillance, probably vapourware rather than parody. "Users can earn money by detecting an event that matches the above scenarios. The user’s notification is sent to an SMS device of the owner of the video feed. [...] As a user you’ll need to be quick if you’re certain of activity as there maybe other users watching the same video feeds. "
surveillance
crowds
worktowin
via:suttree
october 2009 by kevan
Infodemiology and Infoveillance | Eysenbach | Journal of Medical Internet Research
september 2009 by kevan
"Analyzing how people search and navigate the Internet for health-related information, as well as how they communicate and share this information, can provide valuable insights to health-related behavior of populations, including for example the level of understanding of health issues, knowledge about health-related conditions, and so on."
medicine
pestilence
surveillance
maps
twitter
september 2009 by kevan
Does your e-mail reveal how productive you are? - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine
september 2009 by kevan
"Cataphora is a Silicon Valley company that tries to model what an 'effective' employee looks like based upon her electronic trail." [...] "Cataphora looks for who's using all-caps (typically a sign of high emotion) or who is communicating with people on a distant part of the org chart - a relationship that makes no organizational sense."
email
surveillance
work
september 2009 by kevan
BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile data show friend networks
august 2009 by kevan
"The researchers were able to guess from the mobile data alone, with 95% accuracy, if any given pair of users were friends. "
phones
society
surveillance
gps
august 2009 by kevan
Feds at DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned | Threat Level | Wired.com
august 2009 by kevan
"When the reader caught an RFID chip in its sights — embedded in a company or government agency access card, for example — it grabbed data from the card, and the camera snapped the card holder’s picture."
rfid
surveillance
technology
august 2009 by kevan
Mobile phones: Sensors and sensitivity | The Economist
june 2009 by kevan
"Sense plans to collect positional information from a control group of infected patients. [They] will then be able to determine which neighbourhoods these patients frequent, and their commuting patterns between them. They hope this will then enable them to work out the characteristics of typical TB patients, so that they can then spot potentially infected people in the wider population."
phones
maps
pestilence
surveillance
via:badscience
june 2009 by kevan
ashok.org.uk : Police must not hide
april 2009 by kevan
"Let's find every public picture where an officer has hidden their shoulder numbers, and tag it with #policehide. If we act together, and put together a decent list of occurrences, we can then look at how best to submit a mass complaint about the officers involved."
police
photos
surveillance
via:amuchmoreexotic
april 2009 by kevan
BBC NEWS | UK | Eco-activists prepare for protest
march 2009 by kevan
Street games as 'familiarisation games', prior to the G20 protests. "[Capture the flag] was an opportunity for people to familiarise themselves with the area - the geography - so they know what to expect when we have to act quickly."
games
pervasive
activism
cities
london
surveillance
march 2009 by kevan
The strange case of the surveillance cameras | David Aaronovitch - Times Online
march 2009 by kevan
How a single, extreme-case thought experiment from 1999 became the cliché of "the average Briton is caught on CCTV camera 300 times a day".
surveillance
lies
memetics
via:currybet
march 2009 by kevan
The Associated Press: To some psychiatric patients, life seems like TV
november 2008 by kevan
"Researchers have begun documenting what they dub the "Truman syndrome," a delusion afflicting people who are convinced that their lives are secretly playing out on a reality TV show. Scientists say the disorder underscores the influence pop culture can have on mental conditions."
delusions
television
surveillance
november 2008 by kevan
Fiat revs up new free fuel tool | Green Tech - CNET News
november 2008 by kevan
"Drivers [plug] the prepped USB drive into their car's Blue&Me system and it will automatically start collecting data on the car. [...] Upon plugging the USB drive back into the computer, the software does an analysis of driving habits and makes specific suggestions for improvement. Users can also opt to join an online community of drivers called Fiat ecoVille."
transport
technology
surveillance
pollution
mmorpgs
november 2008 by kevan
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis — Central Intelligence Agency
may 2008 by kevan
"Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just about the judgments and conclusions themselves."
psychology
surveillance
books
via:mindhacks
may 2008 by kevan
cityofsound: The street as platform
february 2008 by kevan
"[In] imagining the scene below, via a kind of narrative, it's still remarkable to even sketchily consider how much data is already around us, and is near-invisible to traditional urban planning perspectives."
cities
design
gps
secrets
surveillance
technology
society
february 2008 by kevan
OFF THE TELLY: Light Entertainment/The Game Still Goes On
november 2007 by kevan
"On 23 October 1996 the game began. Runners were released from a television studio in West London, with Trackers in hot pursuit. Seven days later, at 8.30pm, the first episode of Wanted went live on Channel 4."
games
television
history
surveillance
cheating
via:diamond
november 2007 by kevan
The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online
october 2007 by kevan
"Elahi's site is the perfect alibi. Or an audacious art project. Or both. The Bangladeshi-born American says the US government mistakenly listed him on its terrorist watch list - and once you're on, it's hard to get off."
surveillance
technology
gps
terrorism
police
photos
via:collision
october 2007 by kevan
The Ipcress File (1965)
october 2007 by kevan
Decently underfunded and matter-of-fact sixties espionage, desk jobs in drab government offices against a mundanely historical London backdrop. But Caine's character is utterly charmless and unconvincing, and it's a dull ending for its genre.
filmlog
2stars
surveillance
politics
science
secrets
delusions
october 2007 by kevan
Portal (Xbox 360)
october 2007 by kevan
A great curve of lateral thinking puzzles, and one of the best game endings I've played. Striking how much difference good writing can make, that the final scenes were a thousand times more memorable and movingly sympathetic than anything in Halo 3.
gamelog
5stars
puzzles
physics
science
surveillance
weapons
october 2007 by kevan
Topkapi (1964)
october 2007 by kevan
An odd contrast to Rififi; this is in colour, in English, and with everybody except Peter Ustinov overacting terribly. Another elegant and near-silent heist scene, but it's blunted by needless exposition.
filmlog
2stars
crime
surveillance
october 2007 by kevan
Tens of thousands of CCTV cameras, yet 80% of crime unsolved | News | This is London
september 2007 by kevan
"A report by the criminal justice charity Nacro in 2002 concluded that the money spent on cameras would be better used on street lighting, which has been shown to cut crime by up to 20 per cent."
surveillance
crime
police
light
london
via:zarba
september 2007 by kevan
Spy plane employed to shame owners of heat-loss homes - Times Online
september 2007 by kevan
"Thermal images of homes have been taken by a light aircraft fitted with military spy technology to record the heat escaping from people’s houses."
surveillance
technology
cities
light
september 2007 by kevan
Three Colours Red (1994)
august 2007 by kevan
Quite well pitched, in retrospect - it felt slightly too slow and vague to watch, but if had been any faster or sharper, the reveal would have been ridiculous. The actual ending was still quite ridiculous, though.
filmlog
3stars
surveillance
secrets
coincidences
phones
crime
august 2007 by kevan
Police to use helmet cams to record public order incidents | Guardian Unlimited Politics
july 2007 by kevan
"The footage can be played back on a four-inch (10cm) screen attached to the officer's belt. [...] Officers are to wear a sign and to announce: 'I am video recording you.'"
police
surveillance
technology
clothes
signs
july 2007 by kevan
Tim Knowles - Postal Works - Spy Box
june 2007 by kevan
"A digital camera inside a parcel looks out through a small hole and captures images of its journey through the postal system. The Spy Box was sent from my studio to the gallery taking an image every 10 seconds recording a total of 6994 images."
art
secrets
surveillance
travel
june 2007 by kevan
The Lives of Others (2006)
may 2007 by kevan
The counteraction of human weak points in the omniscient surveillance system of the GDR. Slow, strong character development; occasionally heavy-handed, but most of it perfectly underplayed.
filmlog
4stars
surveillance
germany
secrets
lies
writing
may 2007 by kevan
The RFID Guardian: a firewall for your tags: Page 1
may 2007 by kevan
"The Guardian needs to do this lookup quickly, since it must make a decision about whether to jam the tag's response within 320.9µs—the amount of time between the RFID reader's request and the beginning of the tag's transmission back to the reader."
rfid
surveillance
technology
hacking
via:rodcorp
may 2007 by kevan
Talking CCTV cameras accuse wrong person | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk
april 2007 by kevan
"Marie Brewster, 26, a young mother, appeared on TV news reports after a camera operator mistakenly thought she had dropped litter and boomed out a reprimand from the control centre in Middlesbrough."
surveillance
technology
litter
via:rodcorp
april 2007 by kevan
Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll -- New York Magazine
april 2007 by kevan
"Younger people, one could point out, are the only ones for whom it seems to have sunk in that the idea of a truly private life is already an illusion."
children
technology
surveillance
society
psychology
via:josh
april 2007 by kevan
Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Charlie Brooker: I can see you, citizen
april 2007 by kevan
"And, rather than mounting the cameras on poles, why not make them mobile and more kid-friendly by placing them inside full-size, remote-controlled Daleks, which can patrol the streets dishing out near-fatal electric shocks to those who disobey?"
surveillance
daleks
society
april 2007 by kevan
Respect - Children remind adults to act responsibly on our streets
april 2007 by kevan
"The winning schoolchildren will be invited to become the ‘voice’ of the Talking CCTV in their town or city’s CCTV control room later this year."
surveillance
children
sound
psychology
via:penguin
april 2007 by kevan
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (2003)
march 2007 by kevan
Nice parallels of love and death, both being dreamlike in a deadpan way. A bit slow at two hours, even for a twenty year biography, but Rockwell remains engagingly half-likeable throughout the whole thing.
filmlog
4stars
television
surveillance
death
secrets
love
march 2007 by kevan
Notorious (1946)
january 2007 by kevan
The perils of office romances in the intelligence industry, a powerfully slow death and some fun heavy-handed this-is-important zooms of things containing other things.
filmlog
4stars
surveillance
secrets
love
poison
police
january 2007 by kevan
Mind Games - washingtonpost.com
january 2007 by kevan
"[They] frequently refer to themselves as TIs, which is short for Targeted Individuals, and talk about V2K -- the official military abbreviation stands for 'voice to skull' and denotes weapons that beam voices or sounds into the head."
technology
brains
surveillance
politics
radio
delusions
via:mindhacks
january 2007 by kevan
Invisible RFID Ink Safe For Cattle And People, Company Says - News by InformationWeek
january 2007 by kevan
"Somark Innovations announced this week that it successfully tested biocompatible RFID ink, which can be read through animal hairs. [The process] involves a geometric array of micro-needles and a reusable applicator with a one-time-use ink capsule."
surveillance
skin
paint
technology
cows
future
january 2007 by kevan
Surveillance system spots violent behaviour - New Scientist Tech
october 2006 by kevan
"Tests were carried out on six different pairs of people performing a total of 54 different staged interactions including hugging, punching, kicking and shaking hands. On average, the system was 80% accurate at identifying these activities correctly."
surveillance
technology
crime
october 2006 by kevan
Kable - Data sales for tax cuts - 3 October 2006
october 2006 by kevan
"Such use of the data gathered through the E+ cards, previously known as Edge smartcards, would be voluntary for residents - but for those who did not wish to take part, 'it will be £1,400 for a band D,' Bettison said."
surveillance
politics
money
advertising
camrad
via:plasticbag
october 2006 by kevan
Telegraph | News | Passengers' chat will be recorded to foil hijackers
september 2006 by kevan
"If someone looks as if they are praying, the microphones would be able to tell if they were by picking up key words."
travel
terrorism
surveillance
religion
september 2006 by kevan
Evelyn Manesta and the Resistance to "Modern" Photographic Surveillance
september 2006 by kevan
"Thanks to the recent discovery of 90-year-old police files, unearthed by researchers at the National Archives in Kew, England, one can say with some confidence that - in England, at least - 'modern' photographic surveillance began in September 1913."
surveillance
history
photos
prison
via:foe
september 2006 by kevan
Kitchen Stories (2003)
august 2006 by kevan
Quaint pre-CCTV time-and-motion study, with a Swede in an umpire's chair. Inevitable stuff about changing things by observing them, but it's all nicely erratic and low-key, and the isolated Norwegian setting adds a lot.
filmlog
4stars
design
surveillance
august 2006 by kevan
Techcrunch » Blog Archive » AOL Proudly Releases Massive Amounts of Private Data
august 2006 by kevan
AOL cheerfully release the search terms used by 650,000 users - their identities are replaced with ID numbers, but these can be easily cross-referenced and identified, where anyone's ever searched for their own name, or domain, or worse.
web
surveillance
lunacy
august 2006 by kevan
Wired 14.05: The RFID Hacking Underground
july 2006 by kevan
"(Molnar hastily erases the 'AB,' saying that he despises library vandalism.) He fumes at the Oakland library's failure to lock the writable area. 'I could erase the barcodes and then lock the tags. The library would have to replace them all.'"
technology
hacking
books
libraries
surveillance
shops
via:anne
july 2006 by kevan
Digital Peacock Tails - Post-Optimal Electronic Attire
july 2006 by kevan
"The Backstabber replays fragments of conversations recorded several hours ago. The wearer turns into a spy, a leakage between different times, and a security breach, but also a source of interesting secrets."
sound
technology
time
history
art
surveillance
july 2006 by kevan
CNN.com - Street gangs get Web-savvy
july 2006 by kevan
"Chicago police recently arrested a teenager accused of spraying his gang nickname on a church by tracing the moniker to his Myspace.com account. His online profile included his address, photo and real name."
web
crime
police
surveillance
graffiti
weblogs
via:wmmna
july 2006 by kevan
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
july 2006 by kevan
A snarkily dispassionate cold-war doomsday machine and its evitable rise to power. Bit of a weird totalitarian-flatshare sitcom segment in the middle, but the film ends on a bravely downbeat note and at *exactly* the right moment.
filmlog
4stars
apocalypse
computers
surveillance
war
july 2006 by kevan
Technology Review: Lights, Camera, Jamming
july 2006 by kevan
Camcorder-jamming. "The beam saturates the CCD with varying intensities of light, [forcing] the camera's electronics to constantly adjust, and ultimately producing large white splotches that cover about one-third of the recorded scene."
surveillance
technology
light
via:foe
july 2006 by kevan
Guardian Unlimited | The eyes have it for making people behave more honestly
june 2006 by kevan
"Signs that say 'CCTV cameras in operation' should, perhaps, be accompanied by a pair of eyes instead of a picture of a camera. We've not evolved to pay much attention to cameras."
eyes
evolution
surveillance
brains
june 2006 by kevan
jonathan schipper invisible sphere @ pierogi 2000
june 2006 by kevan
"Invisible Sphere is a 5.5 foot diameter sphere covered with video monitors and surveillance cameras. Each monitor displays live video feed from a camera placed on the opposite side of the sphere."
art
surveillance
via:wmmna
june 2006 by kevan
Series 7 - The Contenders (2001)
may 2006 by kevan
Sharply prescient reality-TV satire that has a lot of fun with its medium - the contestants' complete face-value acceptance of their situation, and the darker powers of primetime television as a combined church-and-state.
filmlog
4stars
television
surveillance
death
games
may 2006 by kevan
MIT News Office - Media Lab project explores language acquisition
may 2006 by kevan
"Roy is recording nearly all of his new son's waking hours in an ambitious attempt to use these data to unravel the mystery of how humans naturally acquire language within the context of their primary social setting."
language
children
science
surveillance
may 2006 by kevan
Kick Ass Kung-Fu
may 2006 by kevan
"Kick Ass Kung-Fu is an immersive game installation that transforms computer gaming into a visual, physical performance like dance or sports." Looking a lot like a giant EyeToy game.
games
surveillance
sport
may 2006 by kevan
Tuno Negro (2001)
april 2006 by kevan
A fairly nonsensical Spanish university-slasher - quite a fun motive, but patchily applied, and it's always hard to know how to interpret spurious made-up-Internet elements.
filmlog
2stars
education
death
crime
surveillance
web
via:holly
april 2006 by kevan
The Seymour Tapes - Tim Lott
april 2006 by kevan
Good threads on the power and impotence of surveillance, the corners it can paint itself into, and the evasiveness of objectivity. Some fun scraps of omniscient-God, as well, even if they aren't tied in very neatly.
booklog
surveillance
secrets
april 2006 by kevan
Caché (2005)
april 2006 by kevan
Secrets and surveillance, with a nice sense of the audience being shifted and positioned as if they were the camera, and a subtle ending that's invisible on tiny aeroplane screens, it turns out.
filmlog
3stars
surveillance
secrets
france
society
april 2006 by kevan
BBC NEWS | Technology | Fingerprints hide lifestyle clues
april 2006 by kevan
"Dr Jickells said that adults, children and the elderly lay down different sorts of organic compounds in the prints. Furthermore, drug users typically excrete the metabolised products of the chemical they use."
hands
surveillance
secrets
science
drugs
police
april 2006 by kevan
AtomFilms - Me and the Big Guy
march 2006 by kevan
Short-film 1984 parody, a cheerful Citizen 43275-B returning home to tell his omnipresent telescreen roommate every hilarious anecdote of his work shift.
videos
films
humour
surveillance
march 2006 by kevan
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
march 2006 by kevan
Excellent adaptation, of my memory of the book if not the actual book, which seems fitting enough. Maybe a bit light on paranoia and O'Brien, but a strong cast and fantastically austere and bombed-out scenery.
filmlog
4stars
politics
surveillance
history
lies
dereliction
love
war
march 2006 by kevan
Schneier on Security: Data Mining for Terrorists
march 2006 by kevan
"This unrealistically-accurate system will generate one billion false alarms for every real terrorist plot it uncovers. Every [day], the police will have to investigate 27 million potential plots in order to find the one real terrorist plot per month."
terrorism
surveillance
maths
march 2006 by kevan
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | DNA 'could predict your surname'
february 2006 by kevan
"Mining the information would require building a database of at least 40,000 surnames and the Y chromosome profiles associated with them."
genetics
crime
surveillance
via:foe
february 2006 by kevan
michel auder - Voyage to the Center of the Phone Lines
february 2006 by kevan
"Voyage's structure is simple. Coastal landscape footage and spectacular sunsets are combined with phone conversations recorded from a scanner that picks up cordless phone frequencies."
films
phones
surveillance
february 2006 by kevan
badscience » How I stalked my girlfriend
february 2006 by kevan
"There is no trace of what I'm doing on her phone. I can't quite believe my eyes: I knew that the police could do this, and telecommunications companies, but not any old random person with five minutes access to someone else's phone."
technology
phones
surveillance
february 2006 by kevan
badscience » Mobile Phone Stalkers - Ignorance is the opposite of bliss
january 2006 by kevan
"They promised that they would tighten up security, and think about getting better consent for tracking people's location than one response to a text message. [That] this technology could be misused in this way had not, apparently, occurred to them."
phones
surveillance
technology
lies
january 2006 by kevan
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Crime (ATM Camera)
january 2006 by kevan
"A phony card slot installed over the real one scans information from an entered card's magnetic stripe, and a small camera hidden within an adjacent pamphlet holder records information from the ATM's display screen and keyboard."
money
crime
surveillance
january 2006 by kevan
Scott Kildall: Gun Control
january 2006 by kevan
"Each of the four units incorporates a police-issue revolver and a small video camera. As people move into the installation space, the cameras track the movement and the guns follow."
art
surveillance
weapons
via:wmmna
january 2006 by kevan
New Scientist - Activists hijack public CCTV signal
january 2006 by kevan
"The feed had been crudely scrambled [...] but the activists were able to unscramble it using commercial video processing software. This enabled them to view everything recorded by the camera, and revealed both its capabilities and shortcomings."
surveillance
technology
hacking
january 2006 by kevan
CCTV Sabotag, London, United Kingdom 1998
january 2006 by kevan
"After a careful and detailed study of the surveyed control zones of the inner city a campaign of cctv system sabotag via optical illusion will be undertaken."
surveillance
illusions
via:wmmna
january 2006 by kevan
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