SG -
I think you are just *asking* for a Snow Crash
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash> scenario... like jokesters
on TV/podcasts who utter "Alexa .... <something disruptive>" on air
knowing many folks will have an Alexa device listening and have to
contend with their device(s) executing the command. With the
Spotify/Rogan/Young spat of late, that seems like an obvious
battleground for such nonsense. "Alexa - remove Spotify from your skills
list" "Alexa - block Joe Rogan Podcasts on all channels" "Alexa - play
Neil Young songs which pay him royalties" or the
contrapositive/inverse/converse if you prefer.
I like that you are seeking a proper term for a parallel to the
beneficial human biome. Computer systems, with time-sharing and
services/daemons running already give me the sense of a biome. The fact
that worms and viruses and such have become such a commonplace problem
(rather than simply un/known exploits) suggests that our digital
ecologies are already hosting a complex (if somewhat nascent) biome...
on and amongst our computers/phones/etc. These were not things we had
to think much about when computing meant feeding in card decks, paper
tape, or even magnetic tape to load/run *A* Program.
I will have to think more about the analogy between your StegEmbeddedAS
trick and how real viruses work... it seems pretty darned close!
- SS
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:23 AM glen <[email protected]> wrote:
Shirley you could finagle this into some malware or some
miningware (aka "citizen science") so that the image was
automatically executed by an injected browser add-on.
Yes, we do have chrome extension that could look for code in any image
in your browser. We're trying to design a network to deploy BuenWare -
is there a better prefix for virally good software that benefits your
digital metabolism and connection to the earth?
We're currently using the extension to be a persistent compute and
storage node on our "acequia" p2p network. It can also screen share
and open the web camera on phone or desktop. Of course, the trick to
all of this is transparency and creating a "sousveillant" network vs a
surveillant. Ala Brin's "Transparent Society" book.
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