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F*cking with Human Backed Web Services
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- Description:
- How easy to social engineer web 2.0! Imagine phone sex calls transcribed by Jott. Asking Cha-Cha for the best source for gloves and silencers for a "business meeting." Playing a game of "telephone" with only PhoneTag? See our web-performance art and more courtesy of The Henry Boys tag-team presentation.
- Questions
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- How do these services actually work?
- What is "social engineering" and why does it apply to these web services?
- How are these different from Summize and intelligent search engines?
- Who the heck ARE the Henry Boys?
- Who are the people "behind the curtain"?
- Why does it matter that there are humans "in the loop"?
- Does this make these sites harder or easier to use?
- Can this kind of social engineering be considered valid art?
- Don't you feel kinda bad about messing with under-paid third world workers slaving for their US based corporate overloards?
- Isn't there a special hell for people like you?
- Level:
- Beginner
- Category:
- Human / Social Issues
- Type:
- Dual
- Event:
- SXSW Interactive 2009
Developed for SXSW by Lindsey Simon