They should have made fake ads about getting a free iphone with calling this number, that would be much more effective.

It would be interesting to see the resulting numbers - how many people are already afraid to call that number? Are YOU afraid of calling that number?

That is a nice real life demonstration of where that ill-minded techno-dictatorship will lead us.

Unfortunately there is no way back, as the USA ANGST to fight these nazis is too strong, especially in Silicon Valley, where too many chicken-hearted apple shiners (nice word!) are hiding instead of standing up. It is shocking to see how established that culture of ANGST is already established in the USA.

So be prepared for a long war and many death friends - this is always the only long-lasting result when you let paranoid and aggressive Neandertalers lead your society. Look at Germany after WW II to see the future of USA if you do not stand up now against that bigbrotherism.

Yes, it is up to you to change it. Follow the few brave we have seen and change your government to obey the people, not the other way around. Do it now and the world will be very thankful and start to love USA again! Amen :)

Also see:

http://hop3.de/litfass_en.html

"A project for public space, with posters put up in Karlsruhe and Cologne in autumn and winter 2015/16"

The German text on the posters, before the number, means "we are not afraid."

The whole exhibition is not just that project, it's much bigger:

http://zkm.de/en/event/2015/10/globale-global-control-and-ce...

I wonder if they could possibly know that a ton of people called this number after reading this article, and to disregard that data from their graph. :) Obfuscation is really difficult in highly effective surveillance states.

I'm for this in principle, but I have absolutely no assurance that this is the number it's claimed to be. I would not like to be part of a vigilante attack on someone who turned out the wrong person.

It seems this is based on the idea that NSA is tracking connections to a person connected to him. Unfortunately, if anyone at NSA were to read this, they would be very easily able to segment off this connection if they wanted. Seems like it would be trivial to add an exclusion.

This is a cool idea! My contribution to anti-surveillance trolling is setting the subject of all encrypted mail to, "Your heroin order has shipped."

Well I just found out that international calling isn't included in my service plan :P

I couldn't connect

> This is an art project

What art is this producing? Will there be a final product I can look at, watch, or listen to?

As much as I appreciate what the project is trying to illustrate I would think twice about really signing up for surveillance at second degree of separation. With Five Eyes surveillance reaching to three degrees of separation that makes me 'contagious', pulling every person I contact or have contacted electronically into surveillance as well.

This targeting of not only you but also everyone you've been in contact with is of course one of the reasons the system is so malicious.

As for signing up, then again, maybe it doesn't make that much difference in practice. With the Lists being as long as they are, two degrees of separation would have been a lot of people, but it seems that three would make for virtually everyone. Would I even be able to add my friends to the surveillance systems, or is every single one of us already there...

I don't really care to. I understand William Binney has provided some whistleblowing on the shady business the alphabets have been up to but he also came up with "5 Eyes" which is the foundational legal justification that routes around the Constitution (among other legal documents and protections among the "partners").

I guess I just feel he has an impossible task to make up for that. I think he's a good cautionary tale for young nerds who have an overwhelming amount of intelligence and cleverness but a paucity of wisdom, natural or developed over time.