30c3 - Trevor Paglen - Six Landscapes - 131228 2300
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a fascinating and still relevant look at the physical footprint of government secrecy.
What it is
Trevor Paglen's 30C3 talk on photographing and documenting the secret state, including CIA flights, spy satellites and military sites, to reveal the geography of covert programs.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2013 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends mikejb · 2017-07 · on “Eye in the Sky”
At the 30c3, Trevor Paglen gave a talk about his work, where he also goes into details or it [1]. I found it highly interesting and can only recommend it. [1] [this video]
Recommends eye_street · 2022-12 · on “I Found a Secret US Government Surveillance Program”
Kinda related, I saw this fascinating presentation by Trevor Paglen recently. It's about the footprint of secrecy. It's almost a decade old, but still very much worth your time. [this video]
Cites gorekee · 2013-12 · on “30C3 Recordings”
Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes - [this video] > In this talk, artist Trevor Paglen discusses his work attempting to “see” the various aspects of the secret state. In examples ranging from tracking spy satellites to foraging through the bureaucratic refuse of CIA front companies, Paglen will discuss methods used to identify and exploit structural contradictions in classified programs which render them visible, and comment on the aesthetics and politics of attempting to “see” secrecy. source: [LINK]
Cites F30 · 2013-12 · on “30C3 Recordings”
The Exploration and Exploitation of an SD Memory Card: [LINK] Fast Internet-wide Scanning and its Security Applications: [LINK] A lot of people also recommended 'Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes', but I haven't seen that one myself so far: [this video]
Cites mhh__ · 2020-05 · on “Space Plane: Mysterious US military aircraft launches”
It's spending months in space, I don't think it's for marketing. [this video] Based on what this talk indicates, the US Government is doing some questionable (...) things in terms of signals intelligence in space. We probably won't know what X37-B is doing in space for years but I imagine they will have at least tried to do some big brother exercises. The US/Western Intelligence community effectively treats all communications as fair game - they always have (e.g. MI5 were capturing encryption keys from neutral embassies using microphones in the ~50/60s) they just possess the means to do it efficiently at large scale now. I imagine a large part of its mission is also just testing military equipmen