In September FAT participated at “Meeting Hub“, a hacker’s festival arranged by Platform4. Platform4 is a non-profit art and technology organisation which runs a gigantic open-space in Aalborg, Denmark. Defnetly check it out when visiting Denmark!

The following projects were created with the help of Platform 4:

Geraldine Juárez tinkered a little mobile device – the FAT CRIER – to amplify information gathered from Twitter trough a megaphone so it can be brought it to the streets. The original FAT CRIER is a commissioned piece created for PLATFORM4 and will be installed on their warehouse for everyone to use. A second workshop is coming-up on the 22nd of October!!

Evan Roth created “Multi Finger Touch Paintings” “Paintings created by performing routine tasks on multi-touch hand held computing devices.”

“FB Resistance is a research initiative accepting the status quo of Facebook beeing the dominant social identity management system, researching on ways to change it’s rules and functionality from inside the system, locally via Browser App.” [Full Description here]

Good times in Berlin. We certainly recieved alot of attention for this and gathered lots of cool ideas. We’re still sorting them out. Stay tuned about the results and on the next FB resistance workshop in Barcelona in 2 weeks.

See the full FB Resistance Berlin picture Set on Flickr

Follow twitter.com/fbresistance, Post ideas / discuss on our Facebook group, visit fbresistance.com

"FB Resistance is a research initiative accepting the status quo of Facebook beeing the dominant social identity management system, researching on ways to change it’s rules and functionality from inside the system, locally via Browser App." [Full Description here] Good times in Berlin. We certainly recieved alot of attention for this and gathered lots of cool ideas. We're still sorting them out. Stay tuned about the results and on the next FB resistance workshop in Barcelona in 2 weeks. See the full FB Resistance Berlin picture Set on Flickr Follow twitter.com/fbresistance, Post ideas / discuss on our Facebook group, visit fbresistance.com

Very enlightening 3 minutes excerpt of a 60 min talk by Eben Moglen on Zuckerberg, Facebook, spying and business models. Great glassses Eben!!!

Video of the full talk here. (above excerpt starts at 24:40)

Eben Moglen on “Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing” at ISOC-NY ( Greater New York Metropolitan Area chapter of the Internet Society). Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University, and founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, spoke about “Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing” on Friday, February 5, 2010.

Very enlightening 3 minutes excerpt of a 60 min talk by Eben Moglen on Zuckerberg, Facebook, spying and business models. Great glassses Eben!!! Video of the full talk here. (above excerpt starts at 24:40) Eben Moglen on “Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing” at ISOC-NY ( Greater New York Metropolitan Area chapter of the Internet Society). Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University, and founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, spoke about “Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing” on Friday, February 5, 2010.

The absolutely romantic Hook-up Log

This is the logfile of couples, that were brought together by Lovebot,
an automatic Hook-Up Bot that was going through the German Facebook (studivz.net).

Turn up your MIDI Sound and enjoy

Der absolut romantische Kuppellog

No Midi? Check this clip:



See also the english project documentation here, or the full one here (in German)

The absolutely romantic Hook-up Log This is the logfile of couples, that were brought together by Lovebot, an automatic Hook-Up Bot that was going through the German Facebook (studivz.net). Turn up your MIDI Sound and enjoy Der absolut romantische Kuppellog No Midi? Check this clip: See also the english project documentation here, or the full one here (in German)

I’m a fan of the new Facebook design. I had a few issues, though, so I made a Firefox extension to make it more readable (and remove all the ads). See the before and after screenshots below.

» Click to install ‘Fix New Facebook’

(hassle-free!)

Before

The changes…

After

The extension is simply a compiled Greasemonkey userscript that adds a few CSS styles → fix-new-facebook.user.js

originally posted on tramchase.com

I’m a fan of the new Facebook design. I had a few issues, though, so I made a Firefox extension to make it more readable (and remove all the ads). See the before and after screenshots below. » Click to install ‘Fix New Facebook’ (hassle-free!) Before The changes… After The extension is simply a compiled Greasemonkey userscript that adds a few CSS styles → fix-new-facebook.user.js originally posted on tramchase.com

Studivz is the German clone of the social network Facebook and is used by millions of German students. Since 2006 there’ve been a lot of discussions about privacy issues, data protection, and what could happen if you trust all your private data to a social community. This is the story of two bots who wanted to spread some love and fun in the student community, written in PHP and able to missuse the community’s functions.

The Hoebot
The first bot, Hoebot, was looking for great parties and hot girls. He automatically visited and SAVED the profiles of 10,000 students, and left awesome ASCII graphics on the public profiles such as „the bitchslap“ or „the beertruck“. He was also able to „poke“ people.


Hoebot got a couple hundred reactions of „real“ hot chicks inviting him to partys or just saying: „who the fuck are you?“

The Lovebot
Since the people really liked Hoebot, we went a little bit further and created „the Lovebot“. Lovebot is able to use the personal data, collected by Hoebot, such as: political orientation, single or not single, favourite movies, education and much more.
Lovebot visited the student profiles and left personal hook-up messages to guys and girls, who are apparently single and maybe looking for a new partner. The message was saying: „Hi Martin, Sarah feels so alone. Why don’t you visit her profile? This is her profile Number: xxxxxxxxx“ Sarah got the same message, addressed the other way around.


Since especially girls loved the Hoebot, especially girls hated the Lovebot. Again, we got hundreds of reactions like: „You psychos, why don’t you care about your own crap and leave me alone“ or „I don’t want you helping me with finding a boyfriend, stop intervening my privacy.“ or „Thanks alot Lovebot, this is really nice of you.“

In the end both bot accounts were deleted by the admins, and after publishing the documentation of the hack, we had to be really careful because the company investigated against us, which lead to a pretty huge media feedback, enriching the discussions about giving away personal data on the internet without thinking about what could happen to it.

Finally the social network forbid the usage of our crawler software by creating new terms of conditions, and reinforcing the usage of captchas.



Exposure on Google
The project was not over though, we presented the pictures and names of all the couples, that Lovebot virtually hooked-up in a very romantic way on our website. Many people got angry, because this webpage was always on the top of the google search results of their names. They sent messages like „Please remove me from this website, because I am looking for a job, and this could damage my reputation.“ or „Remove me from this website, or i’m gonna sue you!“. So we removed their last name after a year of beeing bombed by angry google users.

Here is the link to the detailed project documentation (in german).
studivz_crawler.6x.to

AND FINALLY: Here is the link to the awesome romantic hook-up documentation:
Lovebot Hook-up Log
(turn up the volume and enjoy)

Studivz is the German clone of the social network Facebook and is used by millions of German students. Since 2006 there've been a lot of discussions about privacy issues, data protection, and what could happen if you trust all your private data to a social community. This is the story of two bots who wanted to spread some love and fun in the student community, written in PHP and able to missuse the community's functions. The Hoebot The first bot, Hoebot, was looking for great parties and hot girls. He automatically visited and SAVED the profiles of 10,000 students, and left awesome ASCII graphics on the public profiles such as „the bitchslap“ or „the beertruck“. He was also able to „poke“ people. Hoebot got a couple hundred reactions of „real“ hot chicks inviting him to partys or just saying: „who the fuck are you?“ The Lovebot Since the people really liked Hoebot, we went a little bit further and created „the Lovebot“. Lovebot is able to use the personal data, collected by Hoebot, such as: political orientation, single or not single, favourite movies, education and much more. Lovebot visited the student profiles and left personal hook-up messages to guys and girls, who are apparently single and maybe looking for a new partner. The message was saying: „Hi Martin, Sarah feels so alone. Why don't you visit her profile? This is her profile Number: xxxxxxxxx“ Sarah got the same message, addressed the other way around. Since especially girls loved the Hoebot, especially girls hated the Lovebot. Again, we got hundreds of reactions like: „You psychos, why don't you care about your own crap and leave me alone“ or „I don't want you helping me with finding a boyfriend, stop intervening my privacy.“ or „Thanks alot Lovebot, this is really nice of you.“ In the end both bot accounts were deleted by the admins, and after publishing the documentation of the hack, we had to be really careful because the company investigated against us, which lead to a pretty huge media feedback, enriching the discussions about giving away personal data on the internet without thinking about what could happen to it. Finally the social network forbid the usage of our crawler software by creating new terms of conditions, and reinforcing the usage of captchas. Exposure on Google The project was not over though, we presented the pictures and names of all the couples, that Lovebot virtually hooked-up in a very romantic way on our website. Many people got angry, because this webpage was always on the top of the google search results of their names. They sent messages like „Please remove me from this website, because I am looking for a job, and this could damage my reputation.“ or „Remove me from this website, or i'm gonna sue you!“. So we removed their last name after a year of beeing bombed by angry google users. Here is the link to the detailed project documentation (in german). studivz_crawler.6x.to AND FINALLY: Here is the link to the awesome romantic hook-up documentation: Lovebot Hook-up Log (turn up the volume and enjoy)