Your personal communications may be being monitored.
1. What is Poem for Echelon?
2. Structure of Poem for Echelon.
3. What is Echelon?
4. What can I do with Poem for Echelon?
5. Why should I do that?
6. Technical requirements.
1. What is Poem for Echelon?
'Poem for Echelon' creates different visual-textual structures and
randomly inserts key words that Echelon, big internet spy infrastructure is capturing
around the internet. User can copy-paste the text and send it in e-mail.
Echelon my sensor this poem and have some extra unnecessary work. Goal of such action is protest against invading in people private communication by intelligence service also without reason.
User can on the other hand enjoy visual-textual esthetic of the poem. Poem refer to visual poetry and conceptual art.
2. Structure of Poem for Echelon:
Poem for Echelon has 3 parts:
title [a]
Optional. Randomly picked one of the many possible titles. In some of them randomly selected key words are inserted.
visual structure [b]
Always. Displays visual structure which looks like encoded message. Letters which make structure are randomly picked key words (read them horizontally, without white spaces).
additional text [c] / [c2]
Optional. It can be placed either before or after visual structure or not be visible at all. Randomly selected and combined text (made of grammatically correct sentences), sometimes with inserted randomly picked key words.
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3. What is Echelon?
Echelon is the worldwide signals intelligence network run by
the US National Security Agency and the UK Government
Communications Headquarters in collaboration with Canada,
Australia and New Zealand.
Echelon uses large ground-based
radio antennae in the United States, Italy, the UK, Turkey,
New Zealand, Canada, Australia, and several other countries to
intercept satellite transmissions and some surface traffic, as
well as employing satellites to tap transmissions between
cities.
Echelon is reportedly capable of interecepting large portions
of the world's communications: phone conversations,
email, SMS, faxes, telexes, internet traffic and other communications.
It uses dictionaries to search for keywords
that various security services consider to be of interest (a particular station's dictionary
computer contains not only its parent agency's chosen
keywords, but also a list for each of the other four agencies).
There are publically generated lists of probable Echelon keywords.
Ones used in Poem for Echelon are based on list from http://metamute.com/echelonlist.txt
By using them one can made some extra work for Echelon system by flooding the Internet with 'trigger' emails. Still Echelon is too sophisticated to respond to simple lists of words.
Reportedly, Echelon analyses the grammatical structure of sentences and the context in which keywords arise.
[This description of echelon is based on one at http://www.metamute.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic=44&forum=1]
4. What can I do with Poem for Echelon?
Copy-paste the poem to e-mail and send it.
5. Why should I do that?
Poem: You can give some extra work to the spy machine.
Police: But why do you do this to us? We are the good guys.
Poem: O, jea. So why do you spy my private communications?
Do you have a reason to believe i will do some harm to someone?
Police: Well... ...ahm... no - this is a question of general, NATIONAL security!!
Poem: So you violate my personal rights to protect me! How nice!
Police: (It gently blushes. It turns away so public don't se it's insulted. Runs to the press.)
We are the best. We newer do outside of the law! We protect you!
Poem: Not true - But even if the law allows violations of personal rights we have to change the law.
Press: This is insulting and immoral. We will not publish that.
...
Poem: So you don't wont me to raise public awareness of the existence of Echelon and systems like it
and of the fact that personal communications may be being monitored?
Police: (Smiles to the press.) Yes i wish. (It turns away from the public and do the opposite.)
6. Technical requirements
Suggested browsers are Netscape 6 or Internet Explorer 5, 5.5 and 6. It should also work on all other browsers that support the same w3c standards as suggested browsers do (like Mozilla 0.9.5)
Statements in generated poems are not necessary the statements of the author.
Author takes no responsibility for use of Poem for Echelon.