HACKING MONOPOLISM TRILOGY - Face to Facebook:
"There are other common themes in the projects. In all of them we stole data that is very sensitive for the respective corporations. With Google it was the 'clicks' on their AdSense Program; with Amazon we started to steal the content of entire books, and with Facebook we stole a huge amount of public data profiles. In all the three projects, the theft is not used to generate money at all, or for personal economic advantage, but only to twist the stolen data or knowledge against the respective corporations. In GWEI it was the shares obtained through the money created by the Adsense program; in Amazon Noir it was the pdf books distributed for free; and in Face To Facebook it is the collection of profiles moved with no prior notice to a dating website.
All the projects, indeed, independently claim that some of the corporation’s 'crown jewels', including their brand image and marketing approaches, can be hacked, focusing only on their established strategies and thinking in a 'what if?' fashion"
We are in a postmodern era where this sort of recycling occurs in fashion, academia, architecture, and art etc. It's the current status quo. What harm is it causing? An optimistic view fantasies about improved products and more intellegently designed technology. This is a new improved form of research. It could change the way we interact with each other. If everything is dull and needs a heightened stimuli, through which is attenable through research, society could progress more liberally, less conservatively. This information collected about society will help future generations create new cities in outer space. What if humanity could life in space in one hundred years. The current generation will be exploited and used as Ginny pigs. But what is wrong with being Ginny pigs? Business and economics have eclipsed politics, for now, until a new world is made in outer space. From another angle this is a political dream to know everything about everyone, so that control can be enforced. Perhaps our trash cans should be monitored so that we can all be forced to recycle and compost. What if not only our online activity was monitored but also activity with in our homes? Would this information be used to improve the home?
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