#bodydata

[teejayameenspeaks]

Body Data and the Internet

The words ‘body data’ came across as a new word that I have never heard until Ghislaine Boddington’s lecture on its meaning and relevance and even after the class I discovered that there are limited sources of information on this topic and in my opinion this is because protecting your privacy and information is not the wish of rich people at the helms of affairs in technology, for this reason, I will be reflecting solely on Ghislaine Boddington’s lecture ‘who owns our body data’ and also the creative research she has done over the years ‘ the internet of bodies’ . The Internet of Bodies is a practice as research programme of work initiated by Ghislaine Boddington to encompass and expand on her two decades of research into the emergence and evolution of virtual physical blended presence and digital intimacy. This contemporary research has resulted in an extensive set of public engagement and consultancy work across a wide range of sectors, through keynote presentations, directed performances and installations, curations, discussions and writings, find more information about this below

This lecture had me questioning how much information I have put out there and how much access I have given to websites to ‘harvest’ my personal data by accepting cookies every time I visit a website. Over the years I have also heard the saying that ‘DATA IS KING’, this lecture gave me more clarity of how multinationals rake in millions for themselves with the data that have been collected from innocent people who have no idea of the implications of their actions anytime they put their personal information on these platforms

In this lecture, Ghislaine Boddington took us through the various methods that her organization and people of the same belief that your data should be protected have taken to protect their personal information and the future of the human body and technology, I also found out about digital intimacy and the collective embodiment of the future. Her creative research also proposes that ‘our bodies have, in 2020, finally have become the interface. This leads to ethical considerations of the inherent issues of the data ownership of these biometric-led technologies.’ Boddington, G. (1989).

I implore anyone reading this to be more self-aware anytime you access the internet as this will help you make conscious decisions on the type of your data that you want in a public domain like the world wide web.

REFERENCES

Boddington, G. (1989). The Internet of Bodies | Ghislaine Boddington. [online], Available at: https://www.internetofbodies.net/  [Accessed 11 Dec. 2022].

University of Greenwich. (n.d.). A Nudge and a Push: Towards Ethical Sustainability in an Era of (Invisible) Data Harvesting | Research activities. [online] Available at: https://www.gre.ac.uk/research/activity/las/a-nudge-and-a-push [Accessed 11 Dec. 2022].

History.com Editors (2019). The Invention of the Internet. [online] HISTORY. Available at: https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet. (Accessed 11 Dec 2022)

[diwiltshire]

SHARED sensE partagé

by Diane Wiltshire in collaboration with Fabio Dolce and Mixed Reality Lab.

We are our bodies, inhabiting overlapping spaces. Intangible human interactions are at the centre of this collaborative work. Artist, Diane Wiltshire has created wearable devices and everyday technology to translate body data into multi sensory experiences.

In collaboration with Fabio Dolce, who's choreography subverts the usual relationships between partner and audience, the work creates an immersive interplay between the dancer's contact and active audience participation. Audience members will be encouraged to stand. Contains nudity.

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[ladyjaja]

i made a box thats a rng script tht reads from a notecard .. the contents of the notecard is a transcription of a large chunk of me and lady cpu’s buzzword codex.. i use this rng tool to generate hacks and spells for upcoming vn “precious theatre!”

heres a bunch of hacks i generated tonight:

WARP ORANGE INTENTION TRANSFER

CLOVER SMARTBOARD PEDESTAL

PICTURE TEMPLE CUT FILM

COSMIC PRINCESS PLUSH DIRK

EMBLEM FUNCTION TUCAN YURI

MAGNETIC OVERCLOCK CROSS AVATAR

PELICAN GENDER RING

CYPRUS CIRCUIT BOARD

small queen nerd vampire

petal mountain webisode hole

girl sewer message district

sweet bodydata ribbon modify

cross symbol award twin

secretary cookie owl

temporary satellite palace

psychic moral tunnel

primitive backend quill bible

denpa princess princess spirit imitation

ROCK STAR TAPE VISION WEDDING TUTOR

naughty cheatcode bridge reaper

strong pudding

rock mod nemesis

student council sharpie jpg

pelican hpunch faceup

super movement needle actor

vibrator zapdos power-faith

hentai mega sewing diciple

dekbass knowledge crybaby

invisibility bomb slipper

shit religion ideal fruit post

rescue helper chocolate hack space

familiar/special storm

spirit momo x

frilly seagull church

nu crayon textbox

dark loveletter

painkiller rom mystic

harddrive power brother

amy rose punishment operating system

investigation: snowflake recovery guide

media practice moral chant!

complex tuna ritual-potion

summon bff

%slowburn

secretary camera ego

d-pad emerald ego

dekbass angel estrogen

murder million daughter loop

crime beta sewing mecha

!! scripted agent investigation email !!

!! frequency flunk project !!

sutro topaz dimension

!! meow emblem !!

student council desktop

3rd party recovery effect

yaoi society cloud

feral fanclub callcenter

time travel defense blueprint

cosmic elevator clown

chocolate vibrator intention

login mystic snowboard

!! rollcall repost !!

condition mp3

text tournament

gem maiden

vn tunnel

paw tea

slowburn idol

pacify mmd marble

glove? broken leek

probation reboot pencil case

fact check avatar

sexy elephant

cockroach dungeon

dungeon vaccine

processing twin cannabis

familiar dictionary record token

dual sculpture justice

sister class: strange

dissonance leek

garden lamb chibi

peer to peer mouse cell phone

hairclip design botfarm

psyduck million ancestor

tutu dark dissonance

construction paranoia snake

luxury cola

mage primitive

weird doujin eggman dashboard ceremony

!! targeted individual dizzy hypno idol !!

location controller

lament phenomena

permanent copy actress

sign up prize

sister user motion data

synthetic grape vehicle

tucan password trial

familiar lesbian

technique password

custard dungeon

mount murder

equal exception hentai

hope: lesbian space program gala

dual weird lament wink

permanent paintbrush

secretary wish picture

vn boost

fur alpha

friendship picture projection errand

diamond os

leak email

nvl palmtree diagnosis

mother frog hack

alpha mask roll call

perfect frozen reciever doll

sonic committee lunch

emerald rng blender

pray scarlette serpent

shop mammoth apophenia

president dragon teto

dashboard 5g poet

violin codex frill

silver non-network

codex technique theory

quit invisibility org

virtual bomb novel

!! studio alphabet doki !!

lucky app

satellite d-pad technique

repost water divide

interplanetary pretty pigeon

paranoia bodyguard

mango fasshion

fishing tunnel administrator

dragon gallery tiger

mega mantra crow

cylinder hud

bully doily melon cousin

cave yaoi special

royal project library

cpu charm palace

permanent rockstar hammer

disturbing breakfast

profile satan haha brother

dressup book advantage

organic message board alien

mayday stream manifest synthetic court justice

big crow theory snake font recovery

vacccine alien demonic intention chapter

hpunch hpunch turn virtual passion bgm trap

yaye strawberry / order pdf chain invisibility

[jaclynclark231]

Data Recovery

It is the process of retrieving data from secondary storage, removable media, or files that has been deleted or lost, or that has been corrupted, damaged, or formatted when the data held in them cannot be accessed in the normal way. Internal and external hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), USB flash drives, magnetic tapes, compact discs (CDs), digital video discs (DVDs), and other electronic devices are the most common storage media from which data can be recovered. Physical damage to the storage devices or logical damage to the file system that prevents the file system from being mounted by the host operating system may necessitate recovery of the information (OS).

About 

For example, on a single-drive, single-partition, single-OS system, the most common data recovery scenarios are: an operating system failure; a storage device malfunction; storage device logical failure; accidental damage or deletion; and so on. The ultimate goal in these scenarios is simple: copy all important files from the damaged media to a second, new drive. This can be performed by booting directly from a ROM instead of the corrupted drive in question while using a Live CD or DVD to restore functionality. Many Live CDs or DVDs provide the ability to mount the system drive as well as backup drives or removable media, as well as the ability to transfer files from the system drive to the backup media using a file manager or optical disc writing software, among other things. These types of situations can frequently be avoided by dividing the hard drive and putting valuable data files (or copies of them) on a separate partition from the replaceable operating system system files.

Another scenario involves a breakdown at the level of the drive, such as a corrupted file system or drive partition, or a failure of the hard disk drive itself. In any of these scenarios, the data stored on the media devices is difficult to retrieve. In some cases, repairing the logical file system, partition table, or master boot record is required, while in others, drive recovery techniques are required. These include everything from software-based recovery of corrupted data to hardware- and software-based recovery of damaged service areas (also known as the "firmware" of the hard disk drive) to hardware replacement on a physically damaged drive that allows for data extraction to a new drive. If a drive recovery is required, it is usually because the drive has failed permanently, and the focus is on doing a one-time recovery and rescuing whatever data can be recovered from the drive.

Another possibility involves individuals mistakenly "deleting" files from a storage medium without realizing it. As a general rule, the contents of deleted files are not instantly wiped from the physical disk; instead, references to them are removed from the directory structure, and then space occupied by the deleted data is made available for later data overwriting. End users may believe that deleted files are no longer accessible with a typical file manager, yet the data is still technically present on the actual hard drive. The original file contents are still present, frequently in a number of disconnected fragments, and may be retrieved provided they have not been overwritten by other data files during this time period.

As well as in the context of forensic applications and counter-espionage, the phrase "data recovery" is used to refer to the process of recovering data that has been encrypted or hidden, rather than damaged. Data stored on a computer can become encrypted or hidden for a variety of reasons, including virus attacks, and can only be recovered by certain computer forensic professionals.

Damage to the physical body

Data recovery hardware is another option.

Physical damage to storage medium can be caused by a wide range of failures, including human mistake and natural calamities, among other things. A variety of mechanical problems, such as head crashes, PCB failures, and failed motors, can occur in CD-ROM media; tapes can simply break due to the scratching off of their metallic substrate or dye layer.

In the event of physical damage to a hard drive, even in the event of a head collision, it is not always the case that the data would be lost permanently. A large number of professional data recovery businesses have developed ways that can typically recover the majority, if not all, of the data that had been lost when the loss occurred.

It should be noted that there are some exceptions to this rule, such as circumstances in which the hard drive platters have been severely damaged. However, if the hard drive can be repaired and a full image or clone of the drive can be generated, the logical file structure can usually be reconstructed in the majority of cases.

The majority of physical damage is irreversible and cannot be rectified by end users. Opening a hard disk drive in a regular atmosphere, for example, can cause airborne dust to settle on the platter and become trapped between the platter and the read/write head, which can cause data loss. As a rule of thumb, read/write heads float 3 to 6 nanometers above the platter surface during normal operation, and the average dust particle size encountered in an ordinary environment is around 30,000 nanometers in diameter. As a result of these dust particles becoming trapped between the read/write heads and the platter, they have the potential to create fresh head crashes, which can further damage the platter and complicate the recovery process. Furthermore, most end users do not have the necessary gear or technical competence to carry out these repairs on their own time. As a result, data recovery businesses are frequently hired to recover vital data, with the more reputable ones employing class 100 cleanrooms that are free of dust and static electricity. [2]

Techniques for data recovery

Data recovery from physically damaged devices can be accomplished using a variety of approaches. Some damage to the hard drive can be remedied by swapping out individual components. Even if this alone restores usability to the disk, there may still be logical damage present. A sophisticated disk-imaging process is utilized to recover every readable bit from the surface of the disk using a special software package. As soon as this image is captured and preserved on a stable medium, it can be safely evaluated for logical damage, which may enable for a significant portion of the original file system to be reconstructed if the image is of a large enough size.

Hardware maintenance and repair

It is necessary to perform data recovery on media that has experienced a catastrophic electrical breakdown in order to save its contents.

In certain circles, it's believed that a corrupted printed circuit board (PCB) may simply be replaced during recovery processes with an identical PCB from a healthy hard drive. While it is possible that this will work in unusual circumstances on hard disk drives built before 2003, it will not work on drives manufactured after 2003. Drive-specific adaption data (often a map of faulty sectors and tuning settings) and other information required to effectively access data stored on current drives are typically found on the electronic boards of modern drives. Replacement boards frequently require this information in order to successfully retrieve all of the data. It is possible that the replacement board will need to be reconfigured. A serial EEPROM chip is used by some manufacturers (for example, Seagate) to save this information. This chip can be removed from the original board and transferred to a replacement.

System areas and service areas are sections of a hard disk drive that are not directly available to the end user. These sections of the drive typically hold the drive's firmware as well as adaptive data that allows the drive to run within standard parameters while the drive is not in use.

In addition to logging problematic sectors inside the drive, the system area is responsible for informing the drive where it is permitted to write data and where it is prohibited from doing so.

The sector lists are also kept on several chips that are attached to the PCB, and each hard disk drive has its own set of sector lists. If the data stored on the PCB does not match the data recorded on the platter, the drive will not be able to calibrate properly and will fail. [6] In the vast majority of situations, the drive heads will click because they are unable to locate data that matches the data recorded on the PCB.

Damage to the logical system

It's the result of a failed attempt to recover data from a hard disk drive.

There are cases in which an error is not caused by a hardware fault and therefore requires software-level fixes. This is referred to as "logical damage."

Partitions and file systems that are corrupt, as well as media problems

When a hard disk drive's partition table or file system are damaged, or when media failures occur (on an intermittent basis), the data stored on the drive becomes illegible in some instances. When a damaged partition table or file system is repaired with specialized data recovery software, such as Testdisk, at least a portion of the original data can be recovered. Software such as dd rescue can image media despite intermittent errors and image raw data when a damaged partition table or file system is encountered; in the majority of these cases, at least a portion of the original data can be recovered. Because it does not necessitate the use of any particular physical equipment or access to platters, this method of data recovery can be carried out by someone with no prior knowledge of drive technology.

In some circumstances, data can be recovered using relatively basic procedures and tools[7], but in more serious cases, expert assistance may be required, particularly if portions of files are irrecoverably corrupted or deleted. Data carving is the recovery of sections of damaged files by utilizing knowledge of the file's structural layout.

Data that has been overwritten

Data erasure is another option.

A hard disk drive's old data is typically thought to be unrecoverable after it has been physically overwritten with new information. In 1996, Peter Gutmann, a computer scientist, published a paper in which he proposed that erased data might be recovered by the use of magnetic force microscopy, which was accepted by the scientific community. [8] In 2001, he delivered a second paper on a topic that was similar to the first. [9] Gutmann and Colin Plumb developed a way of irrevocably scrubbing data to protect against this form of data retrieval. This method, known as the Gutmann method, is employed by various disk-scrubbing software packages and is available for free online.

Following this, there has been a great lot of criticism, largely focused on the absence of real examples of large amounts of overwritten data being successfully recovered.

Despite the possibility that Gutmann's theory is valid, there is no practical proof that overwritten data can be retrieved, whereas research has demonstrated that overwritten data cannot be recovered. 

Solid-state drives (SSD) wipe data in a different way than hard disk drives (HDD), making it possible to recover at least some of the information stored on them. Virtually all SSDs store data in flash memory in the form of pages and blocks, which are addressed by logical block addresses (LBAs) that are controlled by the flash translation layer (FTL) (FTL). When the FTL makes a change to a sector, it writes the new data to a different place and updates the map such that the new data appears at the target point. This leaves the pre-modification data in place, with the possibility of multiple generations of data recovery, and is recoverable with data restoration tools.

Data that has been lost, destroyed, or formatted

Sometimes, data stored on physical devices (internal/external hard disks, pen drives, and so on) is lost, destroyed, or formatted as a result of events such as a virus attack, an inadvertent deletion, or the accidental use of the SHIFT+DELETE keyboard shortcut. In these instances, data recovery software is used to recover or restore the lost or deleted information.

Sector with a logical flaw

A logical bad sector is the most prevalent type of logical failure on hard disks, and it is the problem that causes data to be unreadable the most often. Even in software, it is sometimes possible to get around error detection and, with repeated reading and statistical analysis, recover at least a portion of the underlying stored data. Even erroneous data can be recovered in some cases if the user has prior knowledge of the data being stored and the mistake detection and correction codes. However, if the underlying physical drive is severely damaged, it may be essential to replace at the very least the hardware that surrounds the data, and it may even be necessary to use laboratory procedures to repair the actual recording medium in some cases. Each of the ways becomes progressively more expensive, and as a result, they become progressively less frequently sought after.

Eventually, if the final, physical storage medium has been sufficiently damaged, recovery will be impossible by any means; the information will have been irreversibly lost; there will be no way to recover it.

Data recovery using the internet

It is not always necessary for recovery specialists to have physical access to the damaged gear. When lost data can be recovered using software approaches, the recovery can often be accomplished through the use of remote access software over the Internet, a local area network, or another link to the physical location of the damaged medium. Essentially, the process is no different from what the end user might accomplish on their own. 

Remote recovery necessitates the use of a reliable internet connection with sufficient capacity. It is not appropriate, however, in situations when access to the hardware is required, such as in the case of physical damage.

There are four stages to data recovery.

When it comes to successful data recovery, there are typically four stages, though this might vary based on the sort of data corruption and recovery that is necessary.

Repair the hard disk drive in the first phase.

The hard drive is repaired in order to get it back up and running in some manner, or at the very least in a state acceptable for reading the data off of it again. For example, if the heads are damaged, they must be replaced; if the PCB is problematic, it must be repaired or replaced; and if the spindle motor is bad, the platters and heads must be shifted to a new drive to ensure proper operation. 

Phase 2: Create an image of the drive on a new drive or a disk image file of the drive.

When a hard disk drive breaks, the most important thing to do is to get the data off the drive as soon as possible. The longer a malfunctioning drive is used, the greater the likelihood that additional data loss will occur. In addition to providing a secondary copy of the data on another device, creating an image of the drive will ensure that the data may be tested and recovered without causing damage to the original.

Recovery of files, partitions, master boot record (MBR), and disk structures in Phase 3

After the disk has been cloned to a new drive, it is possible to attempt to recover any lost data from the original drive. It is possible for the drive to have failed logically for a variety of reasons. It may be feasible to repair the partition table or master boot record (MBR) with the help of the clone in order to read the file system's data structure and retrieve any previously stored information.

Phase 4: Repair any damaged files that were obtained during the previous phase.

When a file is written to a sector on a hard disk that has been damaged, for example, data damage can occur. This is the most typical reason for a failed hard disk, and it means that data must be reconstructed in order to be readable again. Documents that have been corrupted can be restored using a variety of software programs or by manually rebuilding the document using a hex editor.

Disk re-installation

It is possible to reinstall the Windows operating system on a computer that has already been licensed for it. The reinstallation of the operating system can be accomplished either by downloading the operating system or by utilizing a "restore disk" that was supplied by the computer maker. A fine and imprisonment in a federal jail in the United States were levied against Eric Lundgren in April 2018 for manufacturing 28,000 restore DVDs with the intent of distributing them for around 25 cents apiece as a convenience to computer repair firms.

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— Hard Drive Recovery Group (@hdrecoverygroup) January 27, 2022

[logyou]

Withingsのフィットネストラッカー Pulse

[selftracking]

Tooth sensors: part of the New York Times' feature on future tech innovations

[logyou]

ＡＰＩ経由で色んなフィットネスデバイスとつながる、ワイヤレス体重計のWithingsが、fitbit one みたいな入力デバイスを発表した。

そもそも形が似てるので、Fitbitの体重計は、WithingsのOEMじゃないかとずっと思ってたんだけど、そのあたりは不明。

でも、逆に今回のWithingsのデバイスは、形状や、クリップ、アームバンドに至るまで、Fitbit oneにそっくり。ますます両者の関係は疑わしい。

Fitbit Oneと違うのは、ハートレートモニターが着いてるってことかな、まぁこの陣営はシリアスにヘルスケア寄りなんで当然の流れだけど。