(thx to marc garrett for distributing this on NetBehaviour mailing list)
The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online.
Hasan Elahi whips out his Samsung Pocket PC phone and shows me how he's
keeping himself out of Guantanamo. He swivels the camera lens around and
snaps a picture of the Manhattan Starbucks where we're drinking coffee.
Then he squints and pecks at the phone's touchscreen. "OK! It's
uploading now," says the cheery, 35-year-old artist and Rutgers
professor, whose bleached-blond hair complements his fluorescent-green
pants. "It'll go public in a few seconds." Sure enough, a moment later
the shot appears on the front page of his Web site, TrackingTransience.net.
There are already tons of pictures there. Elahi will post about a
hundred today — the rooms he sat in, the food he ate, the coffees he
ordered. Poke around his site and you'll find more than 20,000 images
stretching back three years. Elahi has documented nearly every waking
hour of his life during that time. He posts copies of every debit card
transaction, so you can see what he bought, where, and when. A GPS
device in his pocket reports his real-time physical location on a map.
Elahi's site is the perfect alibi. Or an audacious art project. Or both.
The Bangladeshi-born American says the US government mistakenly listed
him on its terrorist watch list — and once you're on, it's hard to get
off. To convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an
open book. Whenever they want, officials can go to his site and see
where he is and what he's doing. Indeed, his server logs show hits from
the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense, and the Executive Office of the
President, among others.
www.wired.com/techbiz/peo...transparency
The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online.
Hasan Elahi whips out his Samsung Pocket PC phone and shows me how he's
keeping himself out of Guantanamo. He swivels the camera lens around and
snaps a picture of the Manhattan Starbucks where we're drinking coffee.
Then he squints and pecks at the phone's touchscreen. "OK! It's
uploading now," says the cheery, 35-year-old artist and Rutgers
professor, whose bleached-blond hair complements his fluorescent-green
pants. "It'll go public in a few seconds." Sure enough, a moment later
the shot appears on the front page of his Web site, TrackingTransience.net.
There are already tons of pictures there. Elahi will post about a
hundred today — the rooms he sat in, the food he ate, the coffees he
ordered. Poke around his site and you'll find more than 20,000 images
stretching back three years. Elahi has documented nearly every waking
hour of his life during that time. He posts copies of every debit card
transaction, so you can see what he bought, where, and when. A GPS
device in his pocket reports his real-time physical location on a map.
Elahi's site is the perfect alibi. Or an audacious art project. Or both.
The Bangladeshi-born American says the US government mistakenly listed
him on its terrorist watch list — and once you're on, it's hard to get
off. To convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an
open book. Whenever they want, officials can go to his site and see
where he is and what he's doing. Indeed, his server logs show hits from
the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense, and the Executive Office of the
President, among others.
www.wired.com/techbiz/peo...transparency
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