ScareMail is a web browser extension that makes email “scary” in order to disrupt NSA surveillance. Extending Google’s Gmail, the work adds to every new email’s signature an algorithmically generated narrative containing a collection of probable NSA search terms. This “story” acts as a trap for NSA programs like PRISM and XKeyscore, forcing them to look at nonsense. Each email’s story is unique in an attempt to avoid automated filtering by NSA search systems.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2013
- Submitted to ArtBase: Tuesday Oct 15th, 2013
- Original Url: http://bengrosser.com/projects/scaremail/
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Work Credits:
- grosser, creator
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