A few weeks ago a friend of my sent me this link for an event with Jacob Appelbaum (who I’ve already featured here) and Trevor Paglen. Yesterday, they both held a talk about their art project Autonomy Cube at the Edith-Russ-Haus in Oldenburg, just an hour away from my home.
After seeing their Chaos Communication Congress talks it was an obvious “hell yes” for me, so yesterday a colleague and I took the drive over there.
Quite a good and insightful talk about the state of the internet (take away: “the network is hostile”), the purpose of their art and how to protect anonymity.
The Autonomy Cube is basically a small computer in a cube made from acrylic glass. It’s connected to the fiber network of the museum and acts as a TOR-enabled WiFi-hotspot.
By connecting to the WiFi, you surf completely anonymous and also help protecting the identity of all other users of the TOR-network.
Sadly, the exhibition only starts today and it wasn’t possible to see it live yesterday. I guess I’ll have to take another tour.
Please excuse the rather bad quality of my pictures made with a potato.
Heshsum 