This document discusses several topics related to data, technology, ethics and society. It touches on issues like data trading, hacking, censorship, virtual violence, punishment without data access, and questions around who we are in an interconnected world where anonymity and intimacy coexist. Overall it seems to be contemplating the relationship between individuals, data, technology and their implications for morality and society.

1. crime
moral
data
& other fairy tales
07/02/13_Katerina Examiliotou

2. <initial thoughts>

4. crime
violations
contradictions
ethics/moral
ugly

5. <perfect city hypothesis>

6. <insert perfect city here>

8. What happened to drama?

9. not augmented reality but
accelerating reality

10. Emergency Exit: we have
entered a time of general
panic

11. <random user k>

13. [my data]
20 taxis
1 creepy following
1 Kalashnikov
1 metro fight
1 beating up
1 drug exchange
x babushkas
x homeless

14. [my data]
109d/ 2.616h
~545h online
47 episodes
>15 movies
10 music albums
38.5GB torrent
~83GB network

15. <the issue of the citizen/user>

16. • user/citizen overcoming the locality
• user/citizen overloaded with information
“males are more likely to get overload but women”
“fascination and horror of the naked numbers”
• does he seek for a place to hide?a warmhole?a capsule? some kind of
healing process?
“where you rebuilt your dammit subjectivity”
• general purpose user uses the infrastructure given in unexpected
ways
• entering the crowd no longer human but rather a manifestation of a
larger organism, an avatar / same argument for protesting and on-
line behaviors
“if you want to see where major future events are emerging you should see where
new languages are being developed and layers gather”

17. <who are we?>
<identity error>

18. used to have the choice of multiple identities
now everything interconnected
you can only be yourself
“but who is the modern self?”
anonymity and intimacy coexistence/city quality

19. <new moral code manifesto>

20. DIY ethics

21. you are free
you are free to be whoever you want
you are free to look cat videos for hours
you are free to spam
you are free to watch porn
you are free to f**k with strangers
you are free to troll
you are free to be agressive
you are free to have an opinion for everything
you are free to be different
you are free to ask for help
you are free to look for drugs
you are free to be gay
you are free to play games the whole day
you have to follow the guidelines
you have to share all information available

22. are we really free/real though?

24. are we the most real “us” in pure anonymity?

26. did our new morals manifest outside the web?

27. Russia is the latest country to enact Web censorship-style laws. Sites deemed "ille-
gal" under Russian law now face near-immediate blacklisting.
[2011]
Under the new bill, private individuals promoting “homosexual behaviour among
minors” in Russia face fines of up to 5,000 roubles (£105; 124 euros; $166) while
officials risk paying 10 times that amount. Businesses and schools could be fined up
to 500,000 roubles.
[2013]

28. <the crime of data>

29. “Good. Illegal is
always faster.”
Eoin Colfer

30. personal

31. massive
• trading of illegal databases (physical black market)
[Moscow police crack down on illegal database trade
During the raid, police confiscated 40 CDs presumably containing police databases with the
home addresses and criminal records of individual Russian citizens from 2009
According to the estimates of the Russian copyright protection association Russkiy Shchit,
there are up to 50 stationary outlets selling CDs with personal data in Moscow alone.][2011]
• trading of illegal goods (cyber black market)
[so far no database trading found or anything that conects with openly with Moscow]
• hacking
[ Operation Red October:
The astonishing hacking ring that has infiltrated over 1,000 high level government computers
around the world
cyber attack has been in operation since 2007 - and is still running
Operation described as ‘massive’ and has stolen ‘several terabytes’ of data
Security firm which discovered the attacks claims there is ‘strong technical evidence the at-
tackers have Russian-speaking origins’- but say a private firm or rogue nation could be behind
the network.
Targets included diplomatic and governmental agencies of various countries across the world,
research institutions, energy and nuclear groups, and trade and aerospace firms]

32. questions
what kind of Data are illegal?
phones/income statements/university credinitials/ vehicles registered in the Moscow
region(Gorbushka vendor)
which ones are the most valuable?
how do they circulate?
how much do they cost?
Why cant we move into a different mode of production?

33. hypothesis?
There is a social value of lawless outside space
(reservoir of lawless)
pirates that call the question of the state system
existing of radical alternatives
anonymous wildness/carnival
cyber pirates-demonstrate technologies capabilitites
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure,
and the police take the place of pirates.

34. <the crime of abusing the data>

35. <virtual violence data>

36. <the punishment of no data>
<the punishment of no access>
or
<the utopia of no data>
<the utopia of no access>
?

37. the world is full of data that you cannot see or perceive. everybody
is reading surfaces and seeing images.like someone with a missing
sense or damaged brain.
Denied the virtual can be a great punishment...

38. I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me.
And that is something I cannot allow to happen.—
The HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey

39. <back to the city>

41. <with or without data?>

42. Data knows everything we know,
everything we don’t know,
and,as it turns out,even a few things we don’t
know we don’t know.

43. but maybe...