The Ed Report

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The Ed Report est une oeuvre qui prétend être la publication d'un rapport officiel du National Security Council américain sur une enquête particulière menée par cet organisme. Il est entre autre question de l'emploi de civils dans des enquêtes des services secrets américains. De facture réaliste, l'oeuvre tend à brouiller la frontière entre fiction et la réalité.

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Site d'hébergement:

Woodwork, literature laboratory

URL du site d'hébergement:

http://www.wordwork.org/

Date de dernière consultation de l'oeuvre:

24 Octobre 2006

Coordonnées de l'artiste:
eds@edreport.com
Groupe de recherche:
Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine

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The National Security Council has finally released the Ed Report in its entirety! We had been bracing for a court battle. We were very pleased to receive notice, by registered mail on May 8, that the NSC planned to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. The Council has kept its word, and there has been no need to resolve this matter through the judicial system. The government released the first portion of the report (in a redacted form, as is allowed by law) in time for us to post the first section on the Web early in the morning on May 24, 2000. The final section of it was released on June 30, 3000 - just in time for people to have the whole document before them over the Fourth of July holiday. The publication of The Ed Report is an important event for those interested in high technology and the workings of the U.S. intelligence sector. But before going into the nature of the Ed Report itself, it's important to explain how it came to our attention. This January, one of us, Nick Montfort, was doing research for a magazine article (eventually killed) on the recently revived Federal Cyber Service proposal. This proposal, believe it or not, would create a ROTC-like paramilitary group of student interns trained to aid in information-age defense. Montfort discovered during his research and interviews that severe concerns had been raised by U.S. intelligence agencies regarding those agencies' use of people not officially on staff - not student interns, actually, but "civilian contractors." Montfort further learned, though a highly-placed source communicating only by anonymously-remailed email and known only as The Finger, that civilian contractors have been regularly used overseas in covert operations. Finally, The Finger pointed out that the major concerns about this practice were summed up in one recent, incisive report, produced by a body chartered by the National Security Council: The Ed Commission.

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Montfort, Nick

Nick Montfort écrit de la poésie algorithmique et sous contrainte, développe des jeux vidéo et est un critique, théoricien et spécialiste des arts électroniques et des médias. Il est professeur agrégé en médias numériques au Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies) et est président de l'Electronic Literature Organization. Il possède un doctorat en informatique et sciences de l'information de l'Université de Pennsylvanie.
Meissner, Dylan
Gillespie, William

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