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We held the final Future Human event of 2011 last night, entitled Closing Net, where we delved into an information war taking place across the globe, from hacktivists attacking Mexican drug cartels to the Occupy movement self-organising through custom built Android apps. We covered a huge range of material, including how the London Met were attempting smear campaigns against Occupy LSX and tracing their phone activity; the potential for hacking biological systems such as insulin pumps; the impossibility of profiling and stereotyping hackers; even the enfranchisement of rural Third World farmers via the Internet. Thanks go out to our three panellists: Agnes Callamard, whose campaigning organisation
Article 19 does some amazing work; Daniel Cuthbert, an information security expert at
SensePost (and
a photographer on the side); and Samuel Carlisle, the co-creator of anti-kettling app
Sukey, who is currently living in the Occupy LSX camp. If you want to check out some of the sites Sam mentioned, here they are:
Occupy Wiki,
Open Rights Group, and the
‘how to annoy Facebook’ trolling campaign. We also mentioned a number of other exciting app projects that are enfranchising protest: if you want to check them out, they are:
Protest4,
Shouty,
In The Clear,
I’m Getting Arrested, and
TextOccupy. Finally, here’s a Storify list of all the best tweets sent out by the audience during the evening. Thanks to everyone who came, and we’ll hopefully see you on February 8 2012 for our next event, Transparent Life. Until then, carry on checking out The Future Human Podcast, available on
iTunes and
Soundcloud, which we’ll be updating every couple of weeks.
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