When @Julian0liver, @Artur0Castro and @ObviousJim finally get to work on Google’s most wanted/feared device.
In the studio with @obviousjim and @artur0castro getting the hang of installing Android apps on Google glass.
— Julian Oliver (@julian0liver) August 3, 2013
Julian Oliver is an artist and Critical Engineer who’s projects like the Transparency Grenade, No Network or Newstweek question our connected societies and the thrustful relation we have build with information technologies. Arturo Castro and James George are also media artists and both developers of OpenFrameworks, a set of coding tools that empowers artists and creatives of all kind.
So when finally, they set their hands on Google Glass, everybody is watching what they might do with it but mostly what interesting ideas they might come up with.
It’s a scary device. Fair enough to say a person wearing Google Glass in a restaurant should be called a ‘glasshole’.
— Julian Oliver (@julian0liver) August 3, 2013
FYI Google Glass MAC (hw) address begins w/ F8:8F:CA:24. Sniffing for this at the Link Layer will detect an active Glass in your environment — Julian Oliver (@julian0liver) August 3, 2013
@brocktice @smarimc Rooted devices can set a different MAC but few will do this, if the smartphone user base is any guide. — Julian Oliver (@julian0liver) August 3, 2013
So you want to know if a Google Glass has entered your network? Watch for Mac addresses that start with F8:8F:CA:24. From then on, you could use your other skills to greet, block or take advantage the hipster in your area. But as a test, I guess, or proof of concept, the first thing Julian, Arturo and Jim tried to install on the device was a face recognition application.
(nice dummy picture btw ;) ) Some fellow artists and digital creators promptly reacted to these first tweets with questions and comments.
@julian0liver i’m curious why you say it’s “scary”. what’s the thing that frightens you most about it? — Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) August 3, 2013
@kcimc Getting root, or just tricking it to install an evil APK, would give attacker access to a camera & mic attached to a person’s head. — Julian Oliver (@julian0liver) August 3, 2013
@kcimc Secondly, it’s a mass product implementing undetectable recording of the user’s environment. You won’t see Glass in business meetings
— Julian Oliver (@julian0liver) August 3, 2013
@obviousjim @julian0liver @kcimc also agree with James… when the act of framing and capturing something isn’t a choice what’s the point?
— Barry Threw (@barrythrew) August 3, 2013
@obviousjim @julian0liver @kcimc scares me because it’s not a minimum viable product. All those resources for something with no lifespan. — Barry Threw (@barrythrew) August 3, 2013
@julian0liver @obviousjim @artur0castro sweet! curious to see if you guys could make that device of interest to me b/c at present it’s not. — joshua noble (@fctry2) August 3, 2013
Julian, Arturo and James, of course, are not the first ones to have their “critical” hands on the device. A proper teardown of the product has already been done and publicly shared.
@julian0liver Also see Star SImpson’s excellent teardown http://t.co/fM6MZCxraQ
— FXBOY4EVA (@FXBOY4EVA) August 3, 2013
Despite the fact that we are all concerned with privacy issues, as with all scarse products, there is a great impatience in all tech geeks and artists to lay their hands on it. Quite ironic if you ask me.
@obviousjim @artur0castro @julian0liver plez let me play with glasssss sometime
— DANtheMAN (@theDANtheMAN) August 3, 2013
So Julian, Arturo and Jim, we are watching you and hope you will come soon with a project that will set the tone and give relevant food for the critical engineers we all should be.
