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With great pleasure, I announce to you,
Nazan, who will be talking about
exploiting theater and he will
do the introduction of himself himself,
give a round of applause to him.
I guess I have to check the mike Mike
works, OK?
So audio
for the audience.
Oh, no audio.
This would seem not
to look good for Tom,
so it's also still good hospital
in this is a
general what I mean,
the one down at the
Fulda in it
on the tiny who,
but on the high tech force for
type one diabetes, high
tech Gannascoli, he knows it somewhere
over the fence.
There is someone that actually
wants to clear.
All thumbs for the North Korean
remains to go and stay
there all the time.
I think it's more than, you know,
total.
How do you see the start as
Treadstone under his eyes
for business to see what makes
them feel? We've read that message
as a vision that includes US
dollar.
Walk over to him and say hello.
Jumbo, about
Sasanian being here for so
long and Jimmy and his.
To Joe Nunc.
Is that the.
They are no matter how
Otto or Monacan
betrayer.
What do we
do about.
The Professor Panichi
to
mock what
he should show.
We'll let you know if
not
for the Civil.
Hmm.
The hacker being a hacker
means observing systems,
figuring out their structure and using
them for an alternate purpose.
This observation also extends to humans
themselves a system.
Take, for example, this worker here at
his locker just putting
on his working clothes before entering
the lab.
It's up to me as a hacker to find the
point of entry to influence his routine.
Hackers are categorized by the color of
their hat.
Black hat hackers are those that hack for
some malicious reason and white hat are
those that do it to improve security.
Overall, to me, such distinctions
are meaningless and what matters
is the natural curiosity of systems
or environments.
I want you to use this switch
and I want you to switch it off and on
again, three
to one.
What happens?
What effect did it have?
So where are we let's
suppose we've entered the Iranian nuclear
lab, viruses or
weapons can be installed using bugs
in Windows software or something as
simple as a USB stick pass between
individuals like this Russian
lab engineer working in the Iranian
nuclear enrichment facility
he'll find.
OK.
Your observation, he will use it.
Do you think he trusts his environment,
the tools he works with his computer?
The nature of cyber weapons like
Stuxnet, once they are used
and from the moment they are used, they
lose their usefulness over
time.
Once the weapon is discovered, it's easy
to patch the operating system or software
to be immune from future attack.
Look at the mirror.
What would a world be like in which all
weapons would expire like Stuxnet?
What would a world be like where a tank
after two months would be useless,
but also in this world you don't know
when a simple tool you develop might
get transformed into a weapon by somebody
else and you have no say over
where it gets used or against him.
For example, deem this friend of mine
developed a tool six years ago called
MÃ©tis Point that is used to test
security of systems.
It is common for developers of such tools
to release them open source.
And this is what he did.
Dean doesn't even work in the field of
security anymore, and he went
off to become a designer.
But last year, emails were found between
engineers at the Iranian enrichment plant
claiming that his tool was being
used to attack them.
Apparently, this boy was used to gain
access to the systems and the scientists
reported the computers would start
playing a song by AC DC at Max
Volume in the middle of the night.
The song was thunderstruck.
Perhaps we should come to a point
completing this operation
of me, hacking you to
do exactly as I said,
take a right, go back through the hall
and go back to the chair.
And put the hat back on the chair exactly
as you found.
So this was a clip
from Situation Rooms, this
is a piece by criminy protocol
that deals with the arms trade.
It involves a cast, an astonishing
cast of about 20 people whose
lives are affected by the
arms trade. I think my role as
a hacker was perhaps the least
significant.
That includes people who were shot
in protests in Syria,
people who designed weapons and
an arms manufacturer.
I think there was an executive from an
arms manufacturer, a member from the
German parliament.
And the list is quite astonishing.
And I did play the role of a hacker, and
that is what I am, a reverse engineer,
hardware and software.
But that is not what I'm here to talk
about today.
Instead, I'm going to talk
about my work in theater
and try to give you a sense
of the questions
that come up and that the motivations
behind, uh, my involvement.
In nineteen ninety seven,
Eric Raymond wrote a little
parable called The Cathedral in the
Bazaar.
In this parable, he
distinguishes software
development models into two categories.
There is the centralized
model where code is submitted to a
central repository for arbitration,
the cathedral.
And there is the decentralized
model where arbitration
comes through the act of consumption,
the bizarre.
And he meant this as sort of
to argue for the efficiency of
the model of the bazaar.
But we can see now that this
model has a much greater impact
on our society than just technology
and code alone.
If you were to, for example,
look at its application in other
hierarchies in society, you
might see that journalism and
finance are good places where we're
seeing the impact of the bizarre model.
Um,
sorry.
And this this is kind of
what drive drives me to to to
look at what the impact of this is
on our behavior
in particular. My fix is I'm kind of
fixated on the
consumption is arbitration
elements.
For example, if we apply this model to
democracy, does that
what does that do to a vote when the vote
is not a vote, but just your consumption
of an idea?
And I think that some of the works do
touch on this or rub up against it in
some way. But I would like to present
a sort of warning and how to perceive
this talk.
So I appear to have doubled lines
in 1840 for the first year of the
Commercial Telegraph,
Kirkegaard published a book called The
Concept of Three.
He was quite aware that a new environment
had formed around the old mechanical one.
And whenever a new environment goes
around and there's always new terror
and we live in a time when we have
a manmade satellite environment around
the planet, the planet is
no longer in nature.
It's no longer the external world.
It's now the content of an artwork.
This is a clip that was shown in a piece
I'm going to show called Anonymous P, and
I show it to say
to you over the next hour, you feel like
I'm pushing terror.
That's not my intent.
My interest really is human behavior.
And I feel that technology and its
intersection with it gives us an
opportunity to from which to look at
human behavior.
And theater is not a space
for literal discussion and debate.
It's a space for experience.
And it's quite possible
that when you take questions that we have
and put them into poetic form, that
they could come out feeling like fear.
But that's not my intent.
The first collaboration I would like
to.
Discuss is Herman's battle with Romine
protocol.
Yeah, so OK,
it's been sweet
Muslimah out there, but I need to
let it be so
I can go
online and that's been the thing
that we've been not been
able to open
data.
So that's the opening.
This was a piece
by Romine protocol.
They make documentary theater instead of
actors. They have what are called
experts, which are people discussing
things from their life and experiences.
In this case, the cast
was Barbara, talking about
the Arab Spring and her sort of
perception of it through social media.
As an Egyptian, there
is room Zia who survived
a massacre, a genocide in Bosnia.
There was I think
I actually know there was a
retired colonel
who in NATO who was
active in NATO around the same time as
that conflict.
There was myself discussing
growing up as a non-issue in the Israeli
territories during the second intifada.
And there was Peter Glaser,
who is a veteran who
many here probably know, talking about
his history and hacking and sort of
his philosophy that he could bring
to this discussion.
I'm sorry, I have to switch my slides,
can you guys
just realized?
OK, where are we
here?
There we go.
OK.
Still, I'm a in Silicon Valley,
in his son has cancer for 10
years, yet he can ask
me. So I told him, Dave said he
gets a shot blocker.
Then Asmaa Mahfouz in
the video and our full seriousness
to reach out
to men a little bit, to
talk a little bit
about what
might have done, if you remember
me.
What do you
like about the idea?
Is it happened
in a.
And Pachachi,
well,
he's a blogger, and time is his physical
undergone gun since he was sick and now
I'm from Sun just nasty often
to let's call them beautiful
little English.
Fleisig, gratuitous, bad
signing of this college system of the
died online this month.
These are MOUT stigma that things
cannot be solved
with.
This is can also bend, Indiana
monarchial figure that
Althoff the interior potkin and
find Basileus them
on
your video Watergates.
That tells them that of course on
Dimson soccer from Santo's mentioned for
fans just to answer is
less Mazzuca.
This is incredible.
God I wish I was there already.
Three more days. Three more days to go
down.
And what of and Chechen
is coming fast.
And recently Putin was
about up
to snuff the.
The office must go
to these protests
in Cairo happened even though
they were strictly forbidden for today.
Today's police detail,
people are chanting things like
Egypt is too much for you.
Come in, come in.
And our people are way away.
And we're not in the.
I just attacked
us on the twenty sixth
of January, the Egyptian regime shuts
Twitter off,
suspended in November and posted videos
to tighten the country.
In fact, these Mubarak placards often
invent the war on terror, isn't it?
That's my stupid idea.
This is unbelievable.
My God, I just can't wait to
get down to more than one day's.
That's why this site and the evidence of
Constanten Fewster
produced a bonanza for Facebook,
Google is this
massive.
At Tahrir Square, clashes become
more violent as well.
Police are arresting people
left and right, especially journalists,
and more teargas.
Twitter is still down.
Holy shit.
That means I can Google.
I'm I'm texting.
This must must be a lot of.
First Twitter, now Facebook.
Just like Syria and Iran and Iran,
but the fact
that one touched video this alleged
was special and politicized and the
inside is
once again, holy shit,
did something on a Mission
Impossible in Tunisia and
someone said to stay, somebody
should street vendors something.
And I'm asking
if you don't have any vinegar soaked or
water soaked bandannas with you or you're
around someone who doesn't carry with
you an onion, it's just
break it in half and put it close to your
eyes and nasal cavity.
It greatly reduces the irritation.
I learned this from a photojournalist in
Gaza.
That's what I'm trying to get done
by talking to be at superspeed
and Wolf, by my close up
as Achmea spy.
Spanish speaking Spanish The six others
hurt about common debate
on the twenty seventh of January.
The communication networks are
interrupted Facebook, Twitter
and YouTube, fictional nationalistic
emails and so
on.
Twenty eighth of January, the regime
brings about a complete halt of the
Internet and Killswitch
yesterday to tie up Chakram.
And it's not an Internet connection
because she did this, people helped.
At least nine Middle Eastern and North
African states, sensors use Western
build technologies to impede access
to online content.
The list of sites blocked or maintained
by these same Western companies,
for example, McAfee Smart Feltri
maintains an online database
with over twenty five million websites
that can be blocked in over 90
categories, including
anonymizing technology,
government and military information,
hacking information history.
But in Killswitch, in a cookie
capacity to build a
mysterious online group
and a forgotten my husband.
And he has said Sonsini
is a small school, a.
Fleeing.
Seizure of Traugott
million CDs are forbidden for Crown
reasons. He didn't
act it Howman
in Denmark, due to a leaked
communication on the Internet,
is all about trust.
If I want to communicate with Barbara,
for example, with absolute secrecy,
I have no way of knowing if her Internet
provider or mine or her
government or mine are not watching
our wires and monitoring our
communications.
So to communicate with her securely, I
use encryption.
First, I have to obtain her key.
This, for example, is my key.
Once I have her key, I can encrypt a
message by putting it in
this box
and now only she is able to see
the contents of this box.
Now I can send it to her
and neither her government nor mine nor
her ISP nor mine can see
the contents of that message.
However, they can still see that it was
Barbara and I who are communicating with
each other, and this also carries a risk.
So to protect against this,
using an anonymous network called Tor
the onion router, TOR is
basically like a series of encrypted
boxes everyone is participating
on. The network has a box that they can
share with someone else to use
with these boxes.
Only the person that gave me the box is
able to see whatever is put inside.
So using them I can create
a sort of secure routing protocol
on top of the Internet.
I take my message and put it in a series
of boxes creating various layers, much
like an onion.
And then I send this package to the
kernel back over the Internet.
When he gets it, he sees a box
for him that he can open.
But inside he finds another box address
is not at the moment is injured
and not able to go upstairs.
So Brummels North would normally
open his box and see a box from Amasia
who would eventually open the box and see
a box addressed to Bartlett.
In this way, for example, the colonel
is unable to tell where the message is
going. He can only see that he got
something from me, but he has no idea
that it was meant for Barbara.
And Rosea can only see that she
said something to Barbara, but she has no
idea what it was and where it came from.
So in this way, I can communicate
with Barbara both securely and
anonymously, without governments being
able to correlate the who, what or why of
our communication.
This service is used by dissidents in
Iran and Syria to communicate freely
online about crimes against humanity
or corruption.
And for this reason, its development is
sponsored in part by the US government.
But it can also be used by such
organizations as WikiLeaks to protect
whistleblowers and expose corruption
in the West.
And for this reason, some of its
developers are at this very moment
being prosecuted by the US government.
So we also do this this
piece, by the way, was around 2010, we
also dealt with the issue of bitcoin and
assassination markets.
But this actually this part
inspired a piece which we
worked on recently.
So I will detail that.
Right. A Might is
a piece we just recently performed in
Giessen for the discourse office where we
tested it there. I should say we used a
lecture performance format to test
it. The name is taken from
the papers exchange between Freud
and Einstein in nineteen thirty two,
where they kind of discuss this concept
of right of MIT, which were
also quoted in Gimbals as an
assassination politics paper, which he
sent to the cypherpunk mailing list
in the 90s.
In this piece I play a neo
liberal character.
I play a character who
is sort of this libertarian
decentralization will solve all our
world's problems, which I actually think
is quite pervasive and
whom I disagree with in many ways.
And question, um,
what you see here is the opening
where I create paper Bitcoin
wallets and put one euro worth on
each wallet and
then I hand them out to the audience.
This character has this ideology
that he wants to profess, which is that
the problems of the world, specifically
ecological problems, have to do with
economic models that require
constant growth for which
inflation is part of that.
But he gets a little twisted and he
blames this problem on the
inability for us to not compete,
and in particular, a psychological
bias of males on competition.
So he blames it on males.
And then he looks at Bitcoin as being
a sexual this is theater,
by the way, as asexual and
as a solution to this.
And I cannot quite show you all of the
elements, but I'll give you a small
taste.
Inflation,
the increase in prices
and decrease in the purchasing
value of money.
So this is 10 kg of
rice,
which I purchased yesterday in Giesen
for the price of twenty five year.
With it slowly falling to the ground,
it is gradually losing its value so
much in the same way that the euro
loses its value over time.
The guiding principle of the European
Central Bank is
that the inflation of the euro should
hold around two percent per year.
That means that the same twenty five
euro that today will buy you 10 kg
of rice tomorrow,
sorry, by thousand and twenty it would
purchase you around eight
and by 20, 30,
less than six.
This devaluing of money is inevitable.
We know this.
But why is it necessary
if the European Central Bank didn't make
certain that our money slowly loses
its value over time,
we would hold onto it too
much.
Inflation creates a sort of pressure,
forcing us to constantly move our money
and put it into things of actual value.
But why can't we instead
just keep the money that we've earned?
What's what's wrong with us?
Paradoxically, our society can
only retain its stability
when our economy is growing.
The main principle of our economic system
is growth.
I think that's
the issue of this constant cycle
of growth and competition
has to do with male dominance
and a neurological dependance of males
on competition as an indicator
for self worth.
There was this interesting study
in Finland called
Gender Differences and Emotional
Responses to Cooperative and
Competitive Gameplay.
Now, previous research in the field of
psychology has already shown definitively
that men prefer competition.
But what this study wanted to examine
whether was whether men have a higher
emotional response to
competition than women do.
And the way in which they measured this
was by looking at the heart rate
and facial muscle activity
as an indicator of emotional response.
And indeed, the results show
that men have
a higher emotional response
to it during competitive
rather than cooperative gameplay.
This man has a neurological
dependance on competition.
But more interestingly, what this study
also shows is
that women have no psychological
hindrance or psychological preference
towards competition.
In fact, it shows that they treat
both competition and cooperation
with the same level of importance.
So this woman
has no bias.
Yes, so, uh, we we get to the moment
where we sort of I don't know if I.
Yes, I have another one.
Sorry.
To do
this with Bitcoin exclusively,
we take away the tool that those in power
have to force economic growth.
The central bank,
the central bank is the
group that determines when to print money
and when not, and ultimately determines
what the value of your wealth is
or will be in the future.
And this control over a currency
is power, political power,
which is why.
And Margaret Thatcher
argued so strongly against
the creation of a unified European
currency in Parliament
in nineteen ninety
four.
The Prime Minister, would you tell us
whether she intends to continue
the fight against the single currency
and an independent central bank when she
leaves office?
She's going to be on the
job.
For the prime minister,
what a good idea.
I hadn't thought of it,
but if I were there,
no European Central Bank accountable
to no one, least of all national
parliaments have that
kind of European Central Bank is no
democracy taking powers away
from every single parliament and
being able to have a single
currency and monetary policy interest
rates, which takes all political
power away from
what she said, is that a European
Central Bank would be a subversion
of democracy, that this would take
power away from the people.
But I think we should go further.
And I think that using virtual currencies
takes power not only away from national
central banks, but takes power away
from all central banks.
So with the audience primed
with their interest in having this
Bitcoin in the pocket, they're pocket
this paper, what we come to the end
scene, which is you.
This is Assassination Markets,
a crowdfunding website that lets users
anonymously donate Bitcoin in
order to have basically leaders murdered
and some of the bounties have already
raised tens of thousands of
dollars.
The author of this concept, Assassination
Market, was an electrical
engineer at Intel named Jimbo
after publishing his paper.
He spent nearly 10 years in the US
prison.
In his paper, he quoted Freud's
concept of the rights of
MIT in
one corner of the Dark Web.
So it's an interesting rendition
of this assassination market
concept.
In this market.
In this market, the winnings go
to the assassin that kills the target.
The currently has the highest price on
their head.
So what you see happening right
now is
that users that support Julian Assange,
that means users that want to see
him continue living
are earnestly trying to get people
to put Bitcoins into the pool for
Assad, because
if they don't do that, if they don't get
Assad's price up,
then any would be assassins out there
would be more inclined to kill Assange
rather than Assad.
Now you hold
in your hand one Bitcoin,
it's yours and I want you to use
it however you choose,
but until you import it to your phone
or your computer or
use it, I still
have access to them because
I have copies.
And if you don't do this and use it
within two weeks, then
a bet will be randomly
placed for you in this assassination.
And with that, I open the floor to
questions.
So sorry.
I would like to clarify first
that that assassination race
website and the Assad versus Assad
competition and race exist only on
localhost. It was created just for
this theater piece, and it's not
real,
but the audience doesn't know that
initially.
And so it would have this kind of
impact.
And this is kind of what I meant.
Perhaps for some maybe this is
a moment of terror to some degree,
as Marshall McLuhan would say, where the
algorithmic world wraps around
the physical.
But I don't I don't mean for
it to be that way. I mean, the the era in
which Freud and Einstein
discussed the concept of right
of might, meaning
the power of a collective
over the violence of individuals.
That's basically the summarization of the
concept.
It was an era of unionization,
unions and an increasing importance
of the collective.
And, uh, but what happens,
I wonder and with this example, I
wonder what happens when we live in a
world where we have only the collective.
Hopes from
it seems that we're always trying to
progress in the direction that power is
distributed more to the people's hands
that we give the people, the more
potential to participate.
Technology will make this happen.
But if you go to the absolute limit of
this idea, that is absolute
democracy.
It's not something I'm sure that I want.
That's the closing scene from Hermans
battle from 2010, just
after we kind of introduced the concept
of of this type of market
there. And to me,
assassination markets sits
at an extreme end of
the scale of things that utilize
collective consensus.
It's an end which I hope we never get to,
and I hope we never have to depend on
them.
But it brings me back to the broader
question of what happens
when you reduce the weight of a
stakeholder to that of a consumer.
We have one scene.
We have one scene in Herman's battle
where Barbara is looking at a website
called A Vizag, which
is a site which tries to utilize
the potential of the like
button for political action.
And they are they are
effective in the in some of the
the issues that they do tackle.
But I was trying to look in the reverse
direction at the people constantly
hitting like and there's this scene with
Barbara sort of reading them off.
This person likes that free Snowden,
whatever this person likes, that was
worth waiting for.
And so to me, what's
what's interesting is what happens when
the like button becomes
our voice.
That's what I find interesting.
Or to put it another way, what happens
when, how or how does the pervasiveness
of the things on the left affect
things in the category on the right or
how we perceive it?
Um, so that's
the question.
Sorry, this is the next project.
Last night.
I was being chased.
Serge.
In a district
divided into
the semester by.
Instead of attorneys,
this this is
going to get worse with the next
generation of next generation who extend
the capabilities of this sort of to.
You realize that you may be willing to
accept your.
And the beauty of the punishment was
this.
You know, like be himself there
forever as an
example.
Trust me, there's an off button.
Learn how to use it.
It's not me or my team do
I think
we need is it Jupiter, Jupiter,
and we have a little problem here.
Could you please go up to the
phone, find him, Jupiter,
and there is somebody who's actually not
in the game, but a Voca kind of golf
ball.
You
know, it the character Randall, you're
talking about the glove.
Is there someone with a real name
for a little sort of look,
you guys a bunch of email addresses, one
to in fact, h
you're in the room.
We want to help you.
So don't be scared.
Actually, this is quite important.
I say, what's going on? So what happened
is, is that you you
weren't playing in the game.
Your phone was leaking
passwords and showing us
all of your e-mail is what
you would call my impression.
Maybe this wasn't your original phone,
but you're not in the game
and your phone is the password.
You also have an email, your
email.
It's also a feedback
and your assistant stuff.
And that was the situation with Jupiter,
that Jupiter, your passwords
are leaking richer in the game.
We could also read your emails like this
one tonight
is the capability of password
kids can have.
As I am
getting it, you just
don't know how to
delete it.
There should be at least let's
look at the
system anyway.
You it works better because
she's going to
go with them.
Oh no.
Oh no. Sorry.
So she's going to get help
right now.
You might think this is a special
circumstance, that this is a special
network, but it's not.
Everything we have here is what exists in
an Internet cafe.
Anyone sitting close to you in
an Internet cafe could also give your
passwords. And maybe a lot of you
decided not to use your phone because you
were worried this would happen.
And that's a real pity, especially
especially for Rudolph, because
he won't ever be in.
But at least she's cute.
You know, she comes out.
But she said, I don't know about the rest
of it.
So this is a
small segment. Sorry for the audio from
the show. Anonymous P.
This is a piece by Chris and Cristiana.
They would have loved to have been here
presenting, but they're away on another
project at the moment.
What you see here, the scene is users
coming into the theater and registering
for a random persona that's assigned to
them. The actual only reason for it
is that we can secretly take a picture
picture of them.
When they register,
they're registering, uh,
they're registering to play a data
trading game, which plays an important
role in the show.
The show is a show between
you, your device, the actors
and the hackers in the space.
And we use a lot of different
methods to turn your device
into a tool of discrimination against
you.
Um.
So it's kind
of an installation, so you see
the space here
and it's an installation.
It's a large group of people that
worked on all the code and some of them
are here, at least at
the Congress or are here in this space
today.
And one of the first things that happens
to you when you come into the
when you register is you have to play a
game. Some people may recognize this.
It's a it's it's the history hack where
any website, if they can convince you
to interact with it in some determinate
manner, can sort of get you to reveal
the history, your browser history.
So you're you're revealing your browser
history when you click on the Red Square
in this case. And each red square is a
link to a website, but you don't go to
it, but you tell us you have it normally
in the real example.
That way, then you didn't get a view of
your psychological profile based on the
categorization. But we don't show you
that in the game.
We just add this data, your browser
history, to a whole pool of data that we
use dramatically in other scenes
during the the entrance.
You may notice some people there's a
packet monitor here.
There's a scene at the beginning where
Cristiana reads out packets
in a very literal manner.
It has this effect of
sort of giving you this ghost or
remembering this ghost
kind of of the technology that this seems
so opaque and we don't understand.
And this comes back every once in a
while. And we wanted our actors or they
needed to be able to easily read this and
know that we're monitor, we really found
would make it easy. So we wrote one
which you can find at this link.
It's released under the non
white heterosexual male software license.
And have fun.
When you come into the space,
you scan someone and
then you are asked a question or you get
three random questions.
Questions such as does this person
have a tendency to cheat on their
partner?
And you see there is a monetary value
placed on each question to
gather. This sort of is the value
of all of the data.
Should we sell it after the show?
And while you're running around scanning
people and having fun, we
are the hackers and the actors are
monitoring profiles looking at them.
There you see the picture we secretly
took trying to find we're looking
for data in the profiles that we can use
on these people in these scenes.
So here you can see how
we know that Buddy has an Apple device.
And for most Apple devices, the network
name reveals their real name.
I won't go over it all. We have the we
can sometimes tell who you came to the
show with just based on your behavior.
We can see the total value
that you've given us with all the data
that you've compiled on other people or
that it's been compiled on you here.
We would see your browser history and
then an overview of the, uh,
of the questions.
I wonder if I can just skip
forward, um,
which is what the audience sort of
determines from you. We can also see
your movement in the space, a whole bunch
of different pieces of data, and it
gets used in various ways, such as this
scene from film
about somebody.
Somebody.
Yeah. Did this person
we know him as Jimmy
Jimmy Buffett.
Do you remain steadfast?
And then there's somebody very
keen to contact you who is not here
this evening and they know that you're
worried because we know that
you missing the info.
So you're worried about the money
because we think might be
a fair customer.
And let me play with the.
But I just want to let
you know that there's somebody
here who cares about you
just trying to seek a personal
message to help you.
It's just a feeling of
getting, you know, another image,
getting a little bit to the old lady
standing in a kitchen
that's still useful.
I know you're out of it, but
I think you're still a student.
And and I know that your name is
your nose and your nose, you know,
somebody who lives in another country.
And this person is trying to
save you a photographic image
on the very personal nature
thing. You should look at that deceiving.
But look at it.
The to
or the data may be used when you go to
the bar to order a drink.
Here we see Venus has
tried to order a beer and
because she makes over five thousand
Swiss francs or the audience determine
that and because she has an Apple device,
she's charged two euro extra.
Um, so.
Before the show, actually, we get a
list of names in some cases
of people that are coming to the show and
we do research and we find ways
to, uh, get information
on them.
We, for instance, get pictures of them
or their friends and use them in a couple
of scenes. And here is one scene.
It starts in
Germany, sometimes
as its dominant
system, doing all
this analysis in Switzerland.
I think it's
because of that person
than.
For me, for those who don't talk about
Facebook's facial recognition algorithms,
this place is
not something
that is something that, you know,
something be
able to do.
So that's for
our country has
done. Have
looked at.
So is any of this,
in my opinion, one
of the.
And then finally, just a
little bit later, I would
also like to
take you to the Situation Room
for businessmen and
are younger and
the ones that have come
in.
It is.
What does that
do to the
facilities in the
Twin Towers, you don't see text message
readings and links that
can last for life in the
hospitals, you know, hospitals
and stuff.
And I just want
to point
out this.
The the leads
to the exact detail about what
happened.
And they actually
said that this
is
these are Mansbach seven.
So it's quite effective, I think, to see
a picture of yours sort of ripped
through with nails and have a discussion
about Facebook's
facial recognition algorithms at the same
time.
Here's another scene.
It is now 1984.
It appears IBM
wants it more.
Apple is perceived to be the only
hope for IBM to run
for its money.
Dealers initially welcoming
IBM with open arms.
Now fear and IBM dominated
and controlled future.
They and desperately turning back
to Apple as the only force
that can ensure the future freedom.
IBM wants it all and
is aiming its guns on its last
obstacle to industry control.
Apple will blue
dominate the entire computer
industry.
The entire information age
was George Orwell, right
about 1984.
You know,
last night I had
a terrible dream
that this really bad dream,
I was on the set
and I was running and this thing was
chasing me and basically what it was,
I was chased
by a giant search engine,
giant search engine in the sky.
Following needs to be down at the
of the.
And then I would run a little bit more
down and talk back on one
of those dreams and go on forever, ever.
You don't get anywhere with the
search engine kept coming.
Why why is this happening?
And then in the dream, I realized
maybe somebody just trying
to write,
which maybe turned out to be the case.
I don't know, because basically at that
point, the search engine came
to me and said, Chris.
Plus, we don't want
to hurt you.
We were just trying to
set up a profile of you,
and then I realized
the search engine wasn't chasing me,
picking up all those little pieces
of data that's behind
it.
And, you know, the tweets and
the messages and the
cell phone logs and the G.P.S.
traces, this thing was coming
and picking up all those things.
Right.
And I have to say this
just to be right.
I immediately went over to the tax
office. I have.
So
we still in the dream?
No, I woke up.
I woke up in a cold sweat.
I went to the top and I
went to the building to talk to the
journalists all the way
to the website.
I mean, I went to the website.
I put my name in
it, returned to see somebody to bring in
something about.
There was something I did
and anybody about.
You know,
you bring up anything.
Oh, yes.
Next time you do a sit in
the mind to my boys,
this is a suggestion that was
actually the point
of the story.
And what it tells me later, the time
that I realized
that I was being followed by a lot
of stuff
like Berkeley.
There was also Google Analytics was
on a website there
a thousand times
around a thousand
cookies, and they
were all there.
And
then actions were taken to decide
who Time on the Science is
created an app
just for me that
was
just following me around.
So
this is
no time
to precrisis.
The show is was very research driven.
Chris and Cristiana put a lot of research
in it, and one of the topics that came
up was forgiveness in a world
that doesn't forget not to say that
differently.
What is the importance of being able to
forget, to forgive ourselves?
And this kind of inspired an installation
for theaters that let us do this.
We sort of hijacked their website a week
before and every user
presented this at least once or twice.
The sequence, which starts
to open links into your browser,
to subversive sites, to different sexual
orientation sites, queries,
different languages.
It's very real. It does this in a very
real way, and
it actually does so half the time using
the Google I feel lucky feature.
So any state agency that might
be monitoring your your nation's networks
will now see you're interested in
al-Qaida, but also it
will be in your Google profile.
So you'll get different advertisements,
which is a good thing.
So this this show
I'm sorry, the conclusion, kind of the
inspiration was that forgiveness in a
world that doesn't forget is noise.
And the so kind of forgiveness is
entropy. And it kind of gives you this
whole mantra, mantra throughout the whole
thing, kind of this propaganda.
Right. So, uh, so that's that's the show.
But let me bring this back to where I
started. And I'm almost finished
with the examination of what affects
a collective consensus in the bazaar has
on our behavior.
In one of the shows that we had, we had a
person whose password was leaking
and we pulled this person out and we put
them in the hut. And I asked her,
did you know this was going to happen?
She said, I don't care. And I was like,
but we can read all of your emails and
see all of your Instagram.
And she's like, I don't care.
And this character, perhaps
for many of us, is someone that
we feel we need to educate on the
importance of privacy and civil
liberties.
But it's also, I think, actually much
more common and becoming more common,
this type of mentality, because
our identity or the way we perceive
self is changing.
We're slowly changing from
identity itself into
society, with network being a very
central role, a part a part
of identity.
So in
it to illustrate it better, um,
a month ago or two at the Academy of
Sociality, a philosopher,
Alice Le, gave a talk about
the works of Derrida
and George simul in relation
to the importance of
secrecy in relation to
written relation ship to our identity.
And she summarized their work with this
nice saying, which is you are
an individual only to the extent that
you are not transparent.
And this sounds very nice.
We are not just fighting for privacy or
civil liberties. We're fighting for
the meaning of identity or individuality.
And that's that's true.
But there's still, uh, there's
still a change that's definitely
happening to self
and how we perceive it.
And this is kind of why I argue that
we should be talking about post
existentialism, not post
privacy, and
to kind of, uh,
to kind of summarize things.
I think that the tools really have an
impact on this and are important, but I
think something we don't really perceive
is the importance of the protocols, the
ethics in the protocols and what
impact that has on our collective
behavior.
And to kind of illustrate this,
I will use a song.
And second.
OK, that one maybe.
Oh, I don't know why it's not working.
Why don't know.
OK, so
I'm sorry, I don't know why
it's not working.
Uh, we can try another song
anyway. I think you get the point.
What you're seeing happening here is is
actually a political philosophy.
It's
it's a political philosophy that's
embedded into one of the deepest
parts of the protocols that we use
every day.
It's GOP.
Um, and,
uh.
It's GOP and GOP
is a broad name that describes
a part of the Internet that, for example,
prevents YouTube and GIMA to
to restrict access to certain
content to visitors from Germany
and the rest of the world, it may show up
in different forms, but that's how we see
it in Germany.
And this is possible because every
computer online is given an Internet
address that can be used to determine
the nation of origin.
And any sort of attempt to recode
the Internet protocols so that this is
not possible would come into a huge
wall of resistance because there are a
lot of business models that are
increasingly dependent on it.
But this same technology and the same
political philosophy in the protocol
is also what permits to some
degree censorship and surveillance.
This is one of the key score
rules with which Jacob Appelbaum released
last year. Here you see
the NSA is using the location.
You don't see the IP address, but this
technology is using the location of IP
addresses to determine whether or not you
are a citizen that is allowed to not
be monitored when you visit the Tor
Project website.
And this depends on this
floor or this political philosophy
in the protocol.
But this same feature, I would argue, can
actually, I would argue, kills people
because to fix it,
sorry, because to fix it
would potentially make it
difficult to follow people
or track people that are in more
desperate regimes, meaning if we were to
fix if we were to throw them out the door
and we don't care about government
anymore, we might
be able to actually solve some very life
threatening problems for other people in
other parts of the world.
And I think any engineer should be
completely ashamed that it took
the NSA scandal for us to potentially
be aware of this.
And actually, the truth is we still
aren't, because
there was a professor from France that
sent to the Internet engineering task
force at their official appeals board,
a sort of request to consider societies
and ethics when we build protocols
and that sorry, the
the Internet engineering task force
was not our problem.
And this whole argument about
the ethics and the protocols, I think is
really important and missing.
And I actually ripped
this from a from someone
who wrote about this on the cypherpunk
mailing list earlier this year.
And this person who wrote an
email titled GWP is a Threat
to Democracy, ended it with this one
saying, which I will also end with, which
is those who would trade liberated
networks for efficient, efficient
networks deserve neither.
That's a thank you.
All right, we already a little over time,
but since there's nothing immediately
afterwards, I will allow a single
question from the Internet, so
I'll signal Angel, please give us a
question.
There are no questions on the Internet.
All right, anyone here?
Well, we can do a single question, but
otherwise I think we can also let the
stand for for itself, so.
Oh, the the question was,
where's the next show, OK?
Situation Room. You have to check their
site. They're all over the place with
the first thing I showed.
Herman's battle hasn't been played for a
while. Anonymous P will be in Vienna
in March.
What else did I miss in Glasgow in May?
Probably in India now.
We've kind of gotten a confirmation.
There's some discussion about Los
Angeles.
There's some discussion about potentially
Israel, but we don't really know about
that. My peace of
mind is an ongoing project may
show somewhere, but I can't really say
I feel really ashamed to say this, but
follow me on Twitter if you want to know.
But I feel horrible asking for that, so
I don't know.
Thanks.
OK. Thank you again, Nathan.