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An Italian artist wants to make the architects of the global police state famous:
You've heard of Edward Snowden. And the name Keith Alexander probably rings a bell. But what about James Comey? As head of the FBI, he pressed for a law that would require American smartphone companies to decrypt citizens' phones on request. Ever heard of Avril Haines? She was deputy director of the CIA when that agency was engaged in many of the activities Snowden exposed.
Italian artist Paolo Cirio has been stenciling "unauthorized" portraits of these folks, and six other high-ranking officials at three-letter agencies, on walls throughout cities around the world. This rogue's gallery of spooks and spies grin unwittingly from posters and murals in places more typically reserved for television stars and lingerie models.
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The resulting portraits look like pop silkscreens from the 1960s, an eye-candy aesthetic that belies their serious undertone. "These are portraits of high-ranking war generals, the Napoleons of today, somehow marking their historical role in attempting to build a dangerous cyber-empire," Cirio says. But beyond bringing these people out of the shadows, the artists wants them to know that, despite their job titles, they're as digitally vulnerable and overexposed as the rest of us.
The Japanese have a practice of shunning or ostracism called Mura-hachibu, whereby the whole village stops having anything to do with you. Could it work here?
Original Submission
(Score: 4, Informative) by frojack on Thursday July 09 2015, @08:21PM
Right on queue, with regard to FBI demands for back doors the FBI is now claiming to have averted terrorist attacks over the Fourth of July. [washingtonpost.com]Saw this comming [soylentnews.org].
The more you dig, there wasn't any actual plots, these were just ISIS sympathizers.
“We’ve arrested more than 10 people in the last four weeks,” Comey said during a briefing with reporters at FBI headquarters. He said all were “products” of online recruiting and radicalization efforts by the Islamic State and that “some of them were focused on the Fourth of July.”
Comey did not provide details on the arrests, but U.S. officials said the list includes previously disclosed cases in New York, New Jersey and Boston. Comey said that some might not be charged with terrorism-related crimes, an apparent acknowledgment that not all of those arrested had firmly established links to the terror group or were engaged in active plots.
The press and congress will hear TEN TERROR PLOTS, and ENCRYPTED IPHONES. And that, boys and girls, is how its done!!
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @09:15PM
This is what actual thought crime looks looks like - regular joes thrown in jail and harassed by the overwhelming power of the DoJ and DHS looking to justify their jobs and budgets.
Remember that the next time some wealthy celebrity loses a few of the benefits of fame for saying something hateful.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @11:28PM
FBI & Homeland Security Now 0 For 41 In Predicting Imminent Terrorist Attacks On The US [techdirt.com]
-- gewg_