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posted by CoolHand on Thursday July 09 2015, @02:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the shame-game dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @11:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @11:28PM (#207186)

    FBI & Homeland Security Now 0 For 41 In Predicting Imminent Terrorist Attacks On The US [techdirt.com]

    Before the weekend, [FAIR.org blogger] Adam Johnson [at Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting] put together an astounding list of how Homeland Security and the FBI are 0 for 40 in their last 40 predictions for terrorist attacks inside the US [fair.org]--raising serious questions about why the news media actually takes any of these "warnings" seriously.

    And that doesn't even get into the fact that DHS and the FBI have failed to stop actual plots like the Boston bombing. [Mike includes] the list that Johnson put together

    -- gewg_

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