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| [Nettime-bold] Trigger Words #2 (a Carnivore Client) |
During the weekend of February 1st 2002, delegates from the World Economic Forum arrived in the Midtown area of New York City. To greet them were thousands of protestors, themselves greeted by what the New York Times called a "stern police response." The police and the protesters generally kept the peace, with only 200 arrests and little violence. Meanwhile, in a different corner of the city, a small group of hackers, artists, and activists--or "hacktivists"--met to catch their breath, organize political materials, and of course check their email. They chose a venue unknown to the police, the Eyebeam center for media art on West 21st Street. They also chose their own security system, one that would protect the integrity of their sensitive computer communications. They chose Carnivore. Carnivore is an efficient data collection and analysis system used to monitor all forms of Internet communication. It is a premium service of Radical Software Group (RSG), the all-star collective of computer artists hand selected from cities around the world. Like the FBI software on which it's based, Carnivore is a non-invasive spying tool that collects email and web traffic from its local environment. Because Carnivore was installed last weekend in the same building where the hacktivists were checking their email, RSG was granted a unique perspective on the use of digital communications inside the protest zone. During the weekend of demonstrations the following organizations used the Eyebeam facilities: Las Agencias (http://www.lasagencias.net/), The "bike writer" group from MIT (http://architecture.mit.edu/~atmarcus/bikewriter/writer.html), Bureau of Inverse Technology (http://bureauit.org), Institute for Applied Autonomy (http://www.appliedautonomy.com/), RTMark (http://rtmark.com), and The Yes Men (http://theyesmen.org/). It is not known how long each group used the facilities. Some simply visited, others used it often. However, once inside the Eyebeam surveillance zone, one hundred percent of the hacktivists's Internet communications were monitored by Carnivore. Data collection itself is worth nothing without appropriate analysis. Thus, Carnivore offers superior diagnostics created by the world's leading software artists. For example Mark Napier, a New York artist, has released an analysis tool for Carnivore called "Black and White" (http://www.potatoland.org/blackwhite/). He used this tool to calculate the overall truth or falsity of the hacktivists's data. After several days of monitoring, their data was found to be %37 true and %63 false. Another diagnostic is called "Trigger Words." This tool records the frequency of sensitive words--words such as "nuclear" or "White House." After several days of monitoring, the hacktivists maintained a fairly mainstream communications vocabulary. For example, while the word "anarchy" was used 3 times, the word "freedom" was used 64 times. "Hate" scored a high 75, however it was outranked by "hope" with 138 instances. Several rare or unusual terms were also employed by the hacktivists at at least once during their weekend of web use. These include: kiwi, Fukuyama, and ninja (used 29 times!). Complete statistics appear at the end of this message. If you are in search of an effective data collection and analysis solution, please try Carnivore. From schools to cybercafes to corporate offices, Carnivore brings meaning to information. Analysis tools are now available from Cory Arcangel/BEIGE, Mark Daggett, Josh Davis, Entropy8Zuper! and others. For more information, visit http://rhizome.org/carnivore + + + DIAGNOSTIC TOOL Trigger Words #2 (a Carnivore Client) LOCATION Eyebeam Atelier, 540 W. 21st Street, New York City DURATION Start time: 13:57:28 Jan 30, 2002 End time: 23:11:23 Feb 2, 2002 ANALYSIS SUBJECTS Las Agencias (http://www.lasagencias.net/) The "bike writer" group from MIT (http://architecture.mit.edu/~atmarcus/bikewriter/writer.html) Bureau of Inverse Technology (http://bureauit.org) Institute for Applied Autonomy (http://www.appliedautonomy.com/) RTMark (http://rtmark.com) The Yes Men (http://theyesmen.org/) TRIGGER WORD USAGE ------------------------- Meta 2226 Sport 1151 Cards 975 Chan 826 York 611 Keywords 547 Global 446 Rsta 397 Privacy 369 Erco 326 Tools 282 Virtual 275 Ssor 258 Electron 240 Market 239 Import 232 Package 198 Secure 198 Rail 173 D-11 165 SHAPE 164 Society 161 Mexico 157 Bank 143 Rita 143 Hope 138 Vale 138 Solo 114 SORT 112 Passwd 106 Force 104 Guest 103 Chelsea 98 Jack 97 Mole 96 Angela 89 Contacts 87 Zone 87 Unix 86 Blocks 85 Osco 82 Edition 77 Hate 75 Government 73 Tiger 73 NTIS 72 Football 67 Dictionary 65 Consul 64 Freedom 64 Garbage 64 Qrss 59 Tokyo 58 Virus 56 JAVA 52 Austin 50 Quarter 50 Taiwan 50 Evil 48 Fish 47 Mega 46 Fake 45 Archives 44 Alex 43 Chosen 41 Mania 40 President 40 Resta 40 Smith 40 Cocaine 38 Police 38 South Africa 38 RENS 37 Golf 36 Centro 35 Dead 33 Executive 33 Jasmine 32 Texas 32 White House 32 Credit card 31 Honor 31 Harvard 30 Replay 30 Face 29 Ninja 29 Reno 28 Bronze 27 SERT 27 Nike 26 Bach 23 Beef 23 Buzzer 23 CIDA 23 Gorilla 23 Starr 23 Codes 22 Floss 22 Atlas 21 MSNBC 21 Gatt 20 Panama 20 Military 19 Basement 18 Schloss 18 Asset 16 Illuminati 16 Morgan 16 NASA 16 Threat 16 Aladdin 15 Soros 15 Trump 15 Spook 14 Anonymous 13 Dolch 13 Flame 13 Jackson 13 Rubin 13 Siemens 13 Advise 12 Debugging 12 Kiwi 12 ISEC 11 MISSI 11 NAIA 11 Porno 11 ISSO 10 Mace 10 Toad 10 AT&T 9 Cowboy 9 EADA 9 Stanley 9 DERA 8 ISPE 8 ISTA 8 Rhost 8 Submiss 8 CUSI 7 Fraud 7 JICA 7 Marx 7 Moore 7 Sweep 7 USSS 7 ASIS 6 CISE 6 Clone 6 Embassy 6 Lynch 6 Nuclear 6 Pixar 6 Platform 6 Stephanie 6 Unclassified 6 Baldwin 5 Captain 5 Goldman 5 Iris 5 Morse 5 Nash 5 Smuggle 5 Active X 4 ASIO 4 Bess 4 Cable & Wireless 4 Explicit 4 Gamma 4 LATA 4 Monica 4 Nitrate 4 Roswell 4 SAFE 4 SARA 4 Shelter 4 SLIP 4 Anarchy 3 Badger 3 CCSS 3 Daisy 3 Delta 3 Investigation 3 Larson 3 LITE 3 Maple 3 NIMA 3 Nowhere 3 NSES 3 PCMT 3 Playboy 3 Recon 3 SAAM 3 Tajik 3 Vanuatu 3 Advisors 2 Agfa 2 BECCA 2 Bluebird 2 CBOT 2 Csim 2 DDIS 2 Elvis 2 Embassy 2 IDEA 2 JICC 2 JOTS 2 Montenegro 2 Nuclear 2 Pirg 2 RAID 2 Razor 2 SORO 2 Spoke 2 Sweeping 2 Talent 2 USCODE 2 Varon 2 Yakima 2 Analyzer 1 Armani 1 ASTS 1 BIOL 1 Blackjack 1 Bootleg 1 Burns 1 Canine 1 CCSC 1 Chatter 1 Competitor 1 Dort 1 Encryption 1 Fetish 1 Forschung 1 Freeh 1 Fritz 1 Fukuyama 1 Goodwin 1 GOTS 1 Grom 1 Gulf 1 Hackers 1 HALO 1 Indigo 1 ISAF 1 IWIS 1 Kosovo 1 Lacrosse 1 Lander 1 LLNL 1 Loch 1 Locks 1 Mantis 1 Merlin 1 MOSAIC 1 NCSA 1 NLSP 1 NSAS 1 Ortega 1 OTAN 1 OTAT 1 Peapod 1 Press-release 1 Reflection 1 S511 1 Salsa 1 SARD 1 SART 1 Schengen 1 SFPD 1 Sneakers 1 SSCI 1 STEP 1 T2S2 1 Telex 1 TSCM 1 Veggie 1 VFCT 1 WWSV 1 Yukon 1 ZNI1 1 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold