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Archive for October, 2011

32 min, Janez Janša

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Skype Drawing, 32 min, Janez Janša,
6 x 10 cm, pencil / colored pencil on paper
by Aram Bartholl
2011

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October 26th, 2011 at 3:00 pm

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‘Podcast for my father’

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As recommended by Fefe and Frank Rieger I am sending my parents the latest podcast episode of “Alternativlos” #20. :)

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October 24th, 2011 at 9:05 am

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How To Turn Code Into Art

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[1st published on fffffat]

Art aware hackers!! Your code can be art! Yes, no kidding!!!

Recent events have shown again that computer code and its power is still underestimated by the public and governments. The way software is written, it s quality, openess, closedness etc. has a very high impact on which way society is taking.  Some small changes or features in code can result in an enormous loss of democratic values or lead to a hidden surveillance state.  Because comparably only few people can read and understand code it is so important we communicate it, discuss it in public and make it art! :)

Congrats to the CCC for revealing and revers engeneering this incredible piece of software and to FAZ (a leading german news paper, circulation of 360.000) which went of the charts by printing 5 full pages assembler code. Awesome!

BOINGBOING: Chaos Computer Club cracks Germany’s illegal government malware, a trojan that spies on your PC and lets anyone off the street hijack it

Germany’s Chaos Computer Club published the sourcecode for a piece of malware used by the German government to spy on citizens. The software was discovered in the wild and reverse engineered. It can be used to spy on or control remote PCs. Because of flaws in the software, anyone who was infected with this by German police was vulnerable to spying by “anyone on the street.” The German supreme court banned the use of trojans to spy on German citizens in 2008. ….

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October 12th, 2011 at 5:04 pm

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