Data forensics in the landscape:

…this ex-refinery, Jamf Ölfabriken Werke AG, is not a ruin at all. It is in perfect working order. Only waiting for the right connections to be set up, to be switched on … modified, precisely, deliberately by bombing that was never hostile, but part of a plan both sides—”sides?”—had always agreed on … yes and now what if we—all right, say we are supposed to be the Kabbalists out here, say that's our real Destiny, to be the scholar-magicians of the Zone…

[Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon. New York. 1973. p. 520]

… yes the “Allied” planes all would have been, ultimately, IG-built, by way of Director Krupp, through his English interlocks—the bombing was the exact industrial process of conversion, each release of energy placed exactly in space and time, each shock-wave plotted in advance to bring precisely tonight's wreck into being thus decoding the Text, thus coding, recoding, redecoding the holy Text…

It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted . . . secretly, it was being dictated instead by the needs of technology … by a conspiracy between human beings and techniques, by something that needed the energy-burst of war, crying, “Money be damned, the very life of [insert name of Nation] is at stake,” but meaning, most likely, dawn is nearly here, I need my night's blood, my funding, funding, ahh more, more. . . . The real crises were crises of allocation and priority, not among firms—it was only staged to look that way—but among the different Technologies, Plastics, Electronics, Aircraft, and their needs which are understood only by the ruling elite . . .

[GR. p. 521]

Twinned with EM practice, this working group is concerned with divining and providing ideas for a potential future (data) archeology. Key concepts include physical data sedimentation, decoding and paranoia, cryptography, and making sense of/within a landscape.

At the same time, the workshop provokes an examination and critique of pervasive surveillance technologies; it is worth noting that parallel to the development of space technology, the first CCTV system was installed at Test Stand VII in Peenemünde in 1942. Aerial reconnaissance of the site also stands as an important test case within this field.

An obvious relationship with media archeology and a question of this parallel of stratification, sedimentation and landscape with a so-called data-space. Links also to the practice of photo reconnaissance in which PM is noted as a test case. See:

Verification Technologies: Cooperative Aerial Surveillance in International Agreements

at: http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1991/9114_n.html

Further photo-reconnaisance:

Babington-Smith, Constance. Air Spy: The Story of Photo Intelligence in World War II. New York: Harper, 1957. Evidence in Camera. London: Chatto & Windus, 1958.

http://intellit.muskingum.edu/uk_folder/ukwwii_folder/ukwwiiairrec.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/17/google-earth-investigation/page2.html

Google earth overlays: http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile9374/4-overlays-from-Peenemuende,-Germany.htm

Research into steganography and links:

Bibliography for text-based steganography: http://semantilog.ucam.org/biblingsteg/

StegFS (filesystem): http://www.mcdonald.org.uk/StegFS/

[ wbStego: http://wbstego.wbailer.com/ ]

Stegtunnel (covert channel in the IPID and sequence number fields of any desired TCP connection): http://www.synacklabs.net/projects/stegtunnel/

Stepic (Python image steganography): http://domnit.org/2007/02/stepic

Forensic tools: http://unixsadm.blogspot.com/2007/10/digital-forensic-tools-imaging.html

Text-based steganography: http://www.siefkes.net/software/nlstego/ and http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/soft/snowdrop.tgz

Text-based2: http://www.fasterlight.com/hugg/projects/stegparty.html

and:

http://www.nicetext.com/

and:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/stego/

Steghide (images) : http://steghide.sourceforge.net/

Hydan (within executables): http://crazyboy.com/hydan/

Wireshark: http://www.wireshark.org/

Scapy: http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/

Kismet: http://www.kismetwireless.net/

GeoIP: http://www.maxmind.com/app/c ← LGPL Database matching IP with country code

PyPcap, dpkt: http://code.google.com/p/pypcap/ ← Packet capture and dissection library

1. Packaged for Debian here: http://selectparks.net/~julian/share/repo/debian/unstable/
2. Standalone packet logger (Linux) w/GeoIP matching: http://selectparks.net/~julian/share/pcap_collate.tar.gz

gdb: http://sourceware.org/gdb/ ← memory snooping, modification, paring.

Tempest for Eliza: http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/ ← Intended as reference software.

[see also: http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html ]

Also: wavemon, further spectrum analysis [http://www.wireless.org.au/%7ejhecker/specan/]

Cantenna materials=pigtail, N connectors, photo-diodes and amplifiers, spectrum analysis tools (DIY or wi-spy)

LED pulse transduction/parsing: http://www.mee.tcd.ie/~bruckerj/projects/forwardcomp.html

Live Membrane modulation parsing:

1. CRT Phreaking: http://jya.com/emr.pdf
2. Flat Panel Phreaking: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/pet2004-fpd.pdf

Reading Memory out of hardware context:

1. Electromagnetic Induction attacks on semiconductors: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SISW02.pdf

Alejandro Duque: http://www.nujus.net/~locusonus/site/session3/cherch2007.html

Julian Oliver: http://selectparks.net

Andrey Smirnov: http://asmir.theremin.ru/workshops.htm

Security Data Visualization: Graphical Techniques for Rapid Network and Security Analysis. Greg Conti (2007)

Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks. Michal Zalewski (2005)

Map of electrical installations: