An analyst at Websense Security Labs did a study of the “wolfteeth bot catcher”, a tool coming out of China that allows a user to specify a particular range of IP addresses and then search for and exploit the MS08-067 bug in Windows, installing any malicious code they may choose. Careful though! It seems the authors of this program included a backdoor so that installing it also pulls you into their botnet. Here is the link for the disection, an interesting bit of thick texture even if the details are lost on you.
Perhaps we can imagine a sort of parallel continuum of the world, a type of google-maps overlay to the condensation of this historical moment, where Badger’s meticulous dissections provide a zenith to the perception of the consumer-industrial system that grows upon the world. The display of naked artifact upon a stage without boundary: a light upon which they will be able to fix their gaze in all of tomorrow’s museums. It presents the viewer with a space of repose, clinical contemplation.
If this is so, perhaps we may find the nadir of our continuum in the work of the photographer Edward Burtynsky.
Edward Burtynsky,Manufacturing #17, Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province, 2005
Burtynsky takes the moments that buttress the pristine and glistening perfection of the consumer object as his focus. Documenting where our raw materials come from and where our material objects go, he contributes the sublime and the gritty to our continuum. It his through his eyes that the extraordinary scale of consumption, the amplitude of this moment’s engine.
“Bao Steel #8” Bao Steel in Shanghai, China. Photo by Edward Burtynsky
Opening Shot from Burtynsky’s documentary Manufactured Landscapes
