"Benjamin Grosser creates interactive experiences, machines, and systems that explore the cultural, social, and political implications of software."
"ScareMail is a web browser extension that makes email 'scary' in order to disrupt NSA surveillance. Extending Google's Gmail, the work adds to every new email's signature an algorithmically generated narrative containing a collection of probable NSA search terms. This 'story' acts as a trap for NSA programs like PRISM and XKeyscore, forcing them to look at nonsense. Each email's story is unique in an attempt to avoid automated filtering by NSA search systems." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Three
C3 - Web PY - 2013 LA - English M3 - Algorithmic, Email, Narrative, Tool UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/793/0/0/ DB - The NEXT Y2 - 2025-04-18 ER -