“Holypager", an artwork that eavedrops on unecrypted pager messages

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: December 29, 2017 at 1:20:23 PM EST
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> Subject: "Holypager", an artwork that eavedrops on unecrypted pager messages
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> "Holypager", an artwork that eavedrops on unecrypted pager messages
> https://boingboing.net/2017/12/28/holypager-an-artwork-that.html
> excerpt:
>
> Old-school pagers are still in use today -- even though they're wildly insecure. The messages aren't encrypted, so 
> each pager receives every message in its region, and simply discards all the ones that aren't meant for it. 
>
> The artist Brannon Dorsey leveraged this insecurity to create "Holypager", an art installation that receives all the 
> messages being sent in Chicago, anonymizes them, then displays them on three pagers in an art gallery -- while also 
> printing them on a huge scroll of receipt paper.
>
> While creating this artwork, Dorsey has discovered that a substantial percentage of pager messages today are medical, 
> with doctors and hospitals trading info about patients. This, as Dorsey notes, makes it all the more bonkers that 
> such sensitive material is being transmitted in the open: [...]
>
>
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> Geoff.Goodfellow () iconia com
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