‘I have to dominate him emotionally and mentally and digitally.’ ibid. BDSM bird
Rinko Kobayakawa is a character in a dating simulator called LovePlus. ibid.
‘I’m hacking my own body and I’m doing it in such a way that I’m improving the code hopefully.’ Dark Net s1e2: Upgrade
A global community of bio-hackers who experiment with do-it-yourself ways to enhance the human body. They share their experiences online. ibid.
Anyone can mail-order implant kits … The idea of planting a computer chip inside the body doesn’t sit right with everyone. And one day we may not have a choice. ibid.
Wearables have become a multi-billion-dollar industry that’s only going to keep growing. ibid.
All over the internet, groups are protesting RFID. ibid.
Child cyber-sex: it’s an epidemic ... The dark web was born … The amount of child porn here is staggering. Dark Net s1e3: Exploit
1On the other side of our screen a vast new frontier, uncontained, uncontainable; in here images are incendiary, words are weapons, and code is currency … Who is who? Who is in control? Dark Net s1e4: CTRL
Data is control. Hackers and predators are out there and the lines of defence are as thin as your screen. ibid.
You can also find yourself isolated, ensnared in the web. The more you struggle the harder it is to break free. Dark Net s1e5: Trapped
Melissa wasn’t always this way. She wasn’t always an electro-sensitive … So far Sweden and Germany are the only countries that recognise electro-sensitivity as a disease. bid.
The internet is an experiment on our collective brain. Dark Net s1e6: Rewired
A group struggling with internet porn addiction … Alex’s NoFab website has over 170,000 users. ibid.
The promise of a better brain is all over the internet. Searches for the term nootropics have increased over 800% in the past five years. ibid.
When you express yourself in here, you expose yourself out there to hate. Say your piece on social media and you might incite a war. Make your mark online and you might make yourself a target. Dark Net s1e7: Provoke
Trolls post how-to guides. They praise each other’s work and look to one another for inspiration. ibid.
You say you want a revolution? Get online. In here, dissidents, disrupters and firebrands tap, click and swipe at the status quo. Dark Net s1e8: Revolt
All the parts you’ll need to build your own [3D printed] gun are only a Google search away. ibid.
A life mediated by screens. Filtered through the web. Dominated by technology. Sound familiar? Today our devices are not just hardware, they are projections, and extensions of our mind. Every day we upload billions of bits of ourselves to a network that records and even predicts our most basic wants, desires and fears. Dark Net s2e1: My Mind, Netflix 2017
Today’s crusaders and vigilantes hide behind usernames and search for clues in the digital trails we all leave behind. Who’s to judge? Dark Net s2e2: My Justice
Websleuths: The biggest true crime forum online. Here more than 100,000 active users become amateur detectives. ibid.
Our lives revolve around money … Whoever controls the money, controls us. Dark Net s2e3: My Money
This is a new kind of mining: not for gold or silver but for Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a form of digital cash used on the internet. It appeared on the net as a monetary manifesto … No-one knows for sure who created it. ibid.
The worldwide web has given us access to powerful tools of messaging and manipulation … Armies of frustrated citizens are fuelling each other’s anger, embracing ideologies that promise a revolution for everyone. Dark Net s2e4: My Nation
The face – it’s the way we recognise each other. But to machines we are code. We are being transformed into a face print, a unique set of points that converts our very humanity into data, traceable, trackable for ever, online or on the streets will you ever be a face in the crowd again? Dark Net s2e5: My Identity
Today’s homes are more wired than ever, connecting us and protecting us. But are all these devices securing our homes or making them more vulnerable, creating peepholes we never imagined? Will we ever be able to draw the curtains again? Dark Net s2e6: My Home
Social media is a wonderful resource but it also can be a means to exile people. Dark Net s2e7: My Community, woman
Our devices have become our constant companions even when we’re not alone. Is this the beginning of a beautiful relationship or the end of relationships as we know them? Dark Net s2e8: My Relationship
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has called Windows XP the most important tool that’s ever been created. The 2000s: The Platinum Age of Television V, Shihab Rattansi, CNN news, Sky Arts 2019
Googles’ appearance on the scene changed everything. ibid. David Pogue, technology dude
MySpace.com is now the fastest growing site on the web. ibid. news report
Move over MySpace: college students across the country are Facebooking their classmates. ibid. Bambi Francisco
Cambridge Analytica: ‘An organisation that keeps pretty unsavoury company.’ The Great Hack, opening commentary, 2019
‘Your behaviour is being accurately predicted. So the ads that seem uncannily accurate that have to be eavesdropping on us are more likely to be evidence that they are targeting words.’ ibid. Professor David Caroll, Parsons School of Design
It began with a dream of a connected world. ibid.
These digital traces of ourselves are being mined into a trillion dollar a year industry. We are now the commodity. ibid.
Who was feeding us fear and how? ibid.
A company called Cambridge Analytica was also working on Project Alamo … claimed to have 5,000 data points on every American voter but it was invisible. ibid.
We turn now to the burgeoning scandal around voter profiling company Cambridge Analytica. ibid. Democracy Now
They wanted to discredit Trump, they wanted to discredit Brexit, and we were the vehicle for doing it. ibid. Cambridge Analytica dude
Sometimes it’s fun to just go wild and rape a hundred girls. The Warwick Uni Rape Chat Scandal, social media, BBC 2019
Which girl at Uni would you like to pin down the most? ibid.
The pure unadulterated misogyny that runs through that I would never class as banter. ibid. Dianne Whitfield, Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre
11 Warwick students temporarily suspended after group chat exposed. ibid. The Boar 8th May 2019, Warwick uni newspaper
The Chinese state stands accused of stealing the West’s technology and business secrets through hacking and industrial espionage. There’s now serious concern about allowing China’s companies to invest in sensitive parts of British infrastructure. China: A New World Order III, BBC 2019
He could be president for the rest of his life. ibid.
Solar World launched legal action against the Chinese Government in Europe and in the United States … ‘Our company has been hacked.’ ibid.
A unit of the Chinese army was hacking Western businesses. ibid.
Details of the US government’s own computer hacking began to leak out. ibid.
The deal to allow Chinese involvement in Britain’s nuclear industry had been done when relations between China and the West were warm. But the temperature was rapidly dropping. ibid.
‘China’s outrageous theft of intellectual property.’ ibid.
His [Trump] victory paved the way for a trade war. ibid.
Despite China’s long history of hacking it was the first time the UK government had publicly blamed the Chinese state. ibid.