Discussion items
Neo
https://surveillance.hackpad.com/Neo-Projects-W0xsZTZuxWc
Neo is a digital products firm which does strategy, design, and development. We like to work in small interdisciplinary teams and play multiple roles. In the case of the codesign class projects we're looking to help out each project as we can. Each Neon has different skills so we'll need to know what help is needed. We generally fall along a spectrum of skills:
Lean Product Design
UX (User Experience)
Visual Design (UI)
Front End Development (web or mobile)
Backend Development
Operations & DevOps
Design Candidates
V1 - Simple train and diff
Train phone to detect cell towers in area (home, protest area, etc.)
Diff cell towers at a later time (during protest)
Provided data on known/unknown towers to user
V2 - Passive alerts
Train and persist data for a given location?
Ping server with location for known towers in range/area?
Alert user when difference (unknown tower) comes into view
V3 - Map locations
Show locations of known/unknown cell towers on map
V4 - Stingray sharer
Share data with others
Meeting notes
ONI - open network initiative
OONI - open observe network interference
Lookout - mobile antivirus software for android
- model for app that starts with one thing then progresses
Look for patterns in cell tower IDs and stuff like that
Diffing locations, names
This looks okay, this looks weird, this looks wrong (was good and now is gone)
blackouts, spying
Nice to have: specify that you don’t want to connect to a cell tower, etc.
- Tell them not to connect to this network_id.
- After identifying bad (rouge) cell tower/network, tell user to roam.
Scan -- what to do about it once something is detected.
Android share ? share data with anyone
Two landscapes of work
Coding/design of application
Copy
Website/google play store
About page for application
What to do about it page
Scan locations, home for example
GMS encryption off?
Action items
Jeff
Contact Neo for mobile UI designer and send detailed description
Copy notes to wiki
Come up with intiial schema - fields per
cell table, scan table, locations
Rick
Google play page copy
20 March 2014 - Media Lab work session
Potential Users
The following are the various user personae we will be targeting:
Technologists
Activists
Security researchers
Criminals
Legal observers
Brian is a technologist and loves gadgets. He always has the newest cellphone and knows everything about how it works. He enjoys spending time going through all of the advanced settings and screens on his phone and sometimes even takes apart the device to inspect the inside.
Brian wants to use our project in order to gain more insight into how his phone is working.
Kelly is an activist who is upset with the income disparity between the 1% and 99% in the United States. She has been doing a lot of research on the topic lately and even attended the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protest.
Kelly wants to use our project to know when
John is a security researcher with a focus on surveillance technologies and remedies. He’s an advocate of open knowledge and attempts to bring awareness of surveillance problems to others whenever possible. He regularly reports police activity to the media -- most recently he spent time at the Occupy Wall Street protest and wrote an article about how the police used IMSI catchers to keep accurate and complete lists of the people in attendance.
John wants to use our project to find out when police and FBI are using IMSI-catchers.
John wants to use our project to locate the IMSI catchers to attempt to get photo proof.
John wants to have proof of IMSI catchers to share with others.