Dear Spectre, The Critical Engineering Working Group are pleased to present a new work:
//---------------------------------------------------------------------> VENDING PRIVATE NETWORK (2018) Virtual Private Networking as Publicly Funded Infrastructure Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have come into increasing demand in recent years, providing route encryption through hostile networks. In China, Vietnam, Turkey and Pakistan they also serve to mitigate government censorship, such that foreign sites otherwise blocked by state firewalls are made available to VPN users (Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, activist sites and digital libraries being the most common). Vending Private Network takes the form of a condom vending machine, such as those typically seen in public toilets, nightclubs and bars. Equipped with mechanical buttons, a coin-slot and USB ports, it offers 4 VPN routes, each adorned with an animated graphic depicting a fantasy destination. Audiences are invited to insert a USB stick into the slot, a coin (1 pound or euro) into the machine, and to select a VPN destination by pressing a mechanical button. In doing so, a unique VPN configuration file is then written to the USB stick. Special instructions (in the form of a README.txt) are also copied, explaining how to use the VPN in a special ‘sheathed’ mode that evades detection methods (namely Deep Packet Inspection, or DPI) used by corporations and state-controlled infrastructure administrators. This is the only means known to work against state controlled firewalls. https://criticalengineering.org/projects/vending-private-network/ Vending Private Network was developed by J. Oliver and D. Vasiliev, representing the Critical Engineering Working Group, 2018. //<--------------------------------------------------------------------- Vending Private Network is currently on show at Furtherfield, London, as part of 'Transnationalisms', curated by James Bridle, and will tour onward to 3 other locations internationally. https://www.furtherfield.org/events/transnationalisms/ Vending Private Network was the recipient of the generous State Machines Commission, 2018: https://www.statemachines.eu/projects/vending-private-network-by-the-critical-engineering-working-group/ All the best, -- Julian Oliver https://julianoliver.com https://criticalengineering.org PGP https://julianoliver.com/key.asc Beware the auto-complete life
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