A lamp is spying on New Yorkers and tweeting their conversations | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
Wired tells the story of two artists, Kyle McDonald and Brian House, who wanted to experiment with surveillance. The pair installed simple Wi-Fi-enabled recording devices in lamps at McDonalds, a...


The project is called Conversnitch, and it's meant to make people paranoid about being listened to. "What does it mean to deploy one of these in a library, a public square, someone’s bedroom? What kind of power relationship does it set up?" House tells Wired. "


And what does this stream of tweets mean if it’s not set up by an artist but by the US government?"