julian oliver

Trapping rogue AI web crawlers in an infinite self-generating labyrinth of babble Oliver, 2026

A telescope modified to look upon a machine-generated cosmos Oliver, 2024

Protest tool centering the most important number of our time Oliver, Savičić 2022

Extroverted Infrastructure Oliver, 2021

A super computer is employed to solve the world’s climate and ecological crises, with uncomfortable results Brain, Oliver, Sjolen 2019

Intro A quick script I wrote to create resized copies of all the images in a folder to a given percentage of the original size, copied to a new subfolder in turn with the new geometry in the image filename (which I find helpful).

Virtual Private Networking as publicly funded infrastructure Oliver, Vasiliev, 2018

Wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate research Oliver 2017

A ceremonial automaton for the Sixth Mass Extinction Oliver, Vu, 2017

A simple watchdog script alerting you via email when a USB device is plugged into your system.

Intro I’ve needed to generate many hundreds of unique OpenVPN files at a time (end with ovpn) for a growing list of Cyborg Unplug owners.

Context There have been a few too many stories lately of AirBnB hosts caught spying on their guests with WiFi cameras, using DropCam cameras in particular.

If you’re an SDR geek using OsmoCOM’s excellent SDR suite, you may find this useful.

Intro I needed a shell-only way of generating (pseudo) random MAC addresses for an embedded Linux project, without relying on external CLI programs like macchanger, etc.

Photographs of island holidays used as containers for covert re-distribution of canonical NSA and GCHQ Leaks, 2015 Oliver, 2015

Intro Here I use Flickr as a storage medium for free, open-source firmware (operating system) images that can be used to liberate 10 popular routers.

Using Flickr as a platform for the storage and distribution of router firmware Oliver, 2015

Introduction This page will host LibreOffice presentation templates based on existing Snowden NSA and GCHQ releases.

High-altitude Signal Intelligence The Critical Engineering Working Group, 2015

Rogue cellular infrastructure disguised as office printer Oliver, 2015

Brief This capture was taken from inside Starbucks at 21 Rue des Petits Carreaux, Paris, starting at around pm.

Public platform revealing how much our devices talk behind our backs The Critical Engineering Working Group, 2015-

The future of war, heard through its past.

Templating Paranoia Oliver 2015

Introduction To my surprise, I found the news to be even bleaker today than in previous days and so out of self-preservation chose not to read further.

Intro A long and lingering issue with wireless 802.11 work in a UNIX context is filtering AP scans into a meaningful form such that the important bits (BSSID, ESSID, channel) can be used by shell scripts, PHP, etc.

I needed a little audible alarm to alert me when a laptop on the other side of the room or little device without display is running out of battery.

My interview for Swedish Press.

Find a Google Glass device and kick it from the network Oliver, 2014

“Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.” - A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, 1993

Context I was invited to Tel Aviv to give a workshop and public lecture, as part of the Print Screen festival.

Intro Here I present a simple method, using command-line utilities wrapped up in shell scripts, for extracting JPG/GIF/PNG images from captured wireless traffic and presenting them in a browser.

‘Physical patch’ for security cameras, overlaying pro-public copyright terms.

I was nominated for an award in the Interactive Art category of PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA.

Introduction This post documents aspects of the GSM spoofing component of PRISM: The Beacon Frame, as presented at Transmediale 2014.

If, like me, you don’t use a desktop environment but rather an ultra minimal window manager like DWM or Evil WM you may miss the same suspend-and-resume-to-screenlock seen in desktop environments (Ubuntu, OS X, Windows).

Android and Server Side code, proposal and reference implementation This project was started to address a hypothetical case one has volatile data on a remote machine that needs to be removed as fast and as discretely as possible.

Installation of software art as software art installation Oliver, 2013

Approximated NSA Surveillance Field Technology.

Quarantined, gun-shaped USB stick deliberately infected with the Flamer ‘cyber weapon’ Oliver, 2013

Mobile network jammer in the form of a battle tank Oliver 2013

This post explores a hypothetical case where one has volatile data on a remote machine that needs to be removed as fast and as discretely as possible without having to open up a laptop and log in via SSH, an SFTP/FTP browser etc.

The below script will find other devices on the wireless LAN with you and deauthenticate them, in the spirit of antisocial networking.

In public space we can speak to ourselves, another person or to everybody.

If you don’t want to be sending a notice to Google every time your site is visited - due to the fact that all webfonts are downloaded each time from Google - you can do this.

A project proposal for Screen City, City of Stavanger, 2013 Wherever it sets foot, the theodolite heralds change.

Art catalogue and Internet-independent wireless server Studio Weise7, 2013

Workshop intensive empowering participants to control and automate any computer (remote or local) using the command line Oliver, Vasiliev, 2013-

Exhibition of quarantined PC deliberately infected with Stuxnet virus.