User:Federico/hackpact

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Apparently I coded a sonification of TCP, UDP and IPv4 data packages

I used python and two library, one for make synth and the other for packet analisys

from synthesizer import Player, Synthesizer, Waveform
import pyshark

Then define live player for the synths

player = Player()
player.open_stream()
player1 = Player()
player1.open_stream()

synthesizer = Synthesizer(osc1_waveform=Waveform.square, osc1_volume=1.0, use_osc2=False)
synthesizer1 = Synthesizer(osc1_waveform=Waveform.sine, osc1_volume=1.0, use_osc2=False)

Define the interface to use, this case is the wireless one

to check:

• Linux

iwconfig

• Mac

ifconfig

networkInterface = "en0"

Now define capture object on pyshark, for live reading of data packets

capture = pyshark.LiveCapture(interface=networkInterface)

Map the sound with the first value of the ip of source and reciver of every packet

for packet in capture.sniff_continuously():

   try:
       # get packet content
       protocol = packet.transport_layer   # protocol type
       src_addr = packet.ip.src            # source addressc
       src_port = packet[protocol].srcport   # source port
       dst_addr = packet.ip.dst            # destination address
       dst_port = packet[protocol].dstport   # destination port

       # output packet info

       if src_addr[2] == '.':
           src_addr = int(src_addr[0:2])
       else:
           src_freq = int(src_addr[0:3])

       if dst_addr[2] == '.':
           dst_freq = int(dst_addr[0:2])
       else:
           dst_freq = int(dst_addr[0:3])

       print('Source:', src_addr, 'Reciver:', dst_addr)
       print('Source:', src_freq, 'Reciver:', dst_freq)

       # Here where the sound is 
       player.play_wave(synthesizer.generate_constant_wave(src_freq, 1.0))
       player.play_wave(synthesizer1.generate_constant_wave(dst_freq, 1.0))

   except AttributeError as e:
       # ignore packets other than TCP, UDP and IPv4
       pass

TextPact

In a sentence: I would like to track an overview for a possible cosmology of wireless media and propose detourning tool(s) to alterate the current hegemonic platform urbanism, online and offline.

Wireless media are covered, from my perception, of a kind of magic, full of dramaturgic cues:

Firstly, for a human deficit, the impossibility to watch with sightseen the exhange of data through wireless generates an almost imputable aura of mistery and I think, paradoxically, trust.

These tools have the capacity to effect physical reality at a distance, and the link to a telepathy desire is strong. Using our devices as natural extension of our body in the best cyber-tradition, from a communication point of view this desire of telepathy is fully commited.

When we commit with our devices with a wpa/2 connection an action, this creates a pack of data that flows in the air reaching the hardware, the router, then it reaches server(s) and datacenters around the globe through cables.

This generate a hidden traffic that paradoxically is in full sightseen.

A different kind of urbanism(s) is generated from every interaction and those wireless tools add an important layer of complexity.

The wifi doesn't fall frome the sky... but the gps yes

Media and medium are at the core of communication, every communication tool shapes in different way the knowledge' flow and consequently the power' flow.

It's not only the wifi, the cosmology of 'older' medium such as x-rays and radio can really suggests how the wireless way to distribute knowledge (in a very broad sense) generates and shapes superstructures and platforms.

Smoke signals, drums, flags, homing pigeons... outline a cosmology of wireless tools starting to investigate from ancient systems of wireless communication is aimed to understand how and why we arrived here and now with the media we use everyday.

The magical narration applicable on wireless could be "an alternative system of reality to Technic. While Technic attempts to capture the world through an 'absolute language', Magic centres its reconstruction of the world around the notion of the 'ineffable' that lies at the heart of existence." [About Technic and Magic of F. Campagna]

PastFacts: Recursive dilemmas in my head

• Centralization and standardization of knowledge and power

• Explain to my family that wifi doesn't fall from the sky

• think as a multitude:
  • technology
  • language
  • knowledge

• investigative aesthetic as modus operandi
  • case studies and fun-facts, i.e.:
    • pigeons as wireless tool in different sauces
    • the bees in Ca' dei Monti, the hill where is situated Habitat, move from their natural zones after the installation of a 4G antenna at the top of the hill
    • the feeling of power watching the gps on food delivery app

• fuckin' cookies

• Data as relational tool

• Attempting to document the future
  • as a multisubjective speculative practice

HackPacks: Messing around with tools

• local wireless hotspots:
  • around SI14
    • contributions
  • !collective portfolio maker @ habitat

• web app gps-based developed:
  • Earthrise
  • Caution: Weird Floor

• trying forensic wireless tools
  • aircrack-ng
  • DSTIKE hacker aesthetic

• scraping around:
  • Just Eat UK bad reviews + the stupid and fake food picture scraped, making the platform naked
  • and other stuff not really related to the topic

for Aquarium event

• out of my digital headspace
  • use paper bookmarks to let people write data on them
  • and let them send around
  • == put them around in the space, especially in books
  • and let them to modify them, trash them, hack them...
  • interaction, hacking around!

Bonus

Aurora - I Cani

Vola via, pacchetto digitale
Del tutto immateriale
Di ampiezza e di frequenza
Vola via su mari tropicali
E laghi disseccati
Giungla e ghiacciai
Tuffati nei cavi dell'Atlantico
Veloce come luce
Poi lanciati nel vuoto

Fly away, digital package
Totally immaterial
Of amplitude and frequency
Fly away over tropical seas
And dried lakes
Jungle and glaciers
Dive into the cables of the Atlantic
Fast as light
Then throw yourself into the void