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Autonomy Cube – Travor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum
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.
Enter Pyongyang
To me, North Korea is one of the most interesting countries in the world. Because of that, I just _have_ to feature this film in here, although unfortunately embedding is not available. So head over to Vimeo and watch “Enter Pyongyang“.
Alice Francis – Shoot him down
Escaping Sloth
Some time ago, a friend of mine decided that he didn’t find his job exceedingly attractive anymore. So he decided to quit and do something more of his liking: travelling.
Since a few weeks, Arne has been travelling around Greece and Turkey and started to write about it.
I can’t recommend his blog enough to anyone who
- is fond of written words
- likes cat pictures
So, head over there and start reading!
The Internet is on Fire.
Security Checklist
Comic recommendation: CommitStrip
One of my favorite comics online, and one of my favorite strips of it: Excel. The poor man’s IDE.
Gravity Visualized
Inside the explosion
Spectacular pictures filmed from a drone which was send directly into fireworks.
Heshsum 