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Catch Me If You Can Designing a Disobedient Object to Protest Against GSM Surveillance

Goguey, Felicien  
January 1, 2021
Extended Abstracts Of The 2021 Chi Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems (Chi'21)
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

In this article, I discuss the process of designing an object to protest against a specific surveillance device: the IMSI catcher, a controversial object used to monitor GSM networks. Being widely used in protests, I develop a tactical approach based on obfuscation to be adopted collectively to counteract IMSI catchers. In this case study, (1) I present how can remaking an IMSI catcher allow to re-appropriate the technology and create a basis for designing a disobedient object; (2) I introduce some examples of tactics to defeat surveillance based on obfuscation and the potential of inflatables; (3) I conceptualize a possible design of an object to defeat IMSI catchers and show the types of interactions it might generate in protests.

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