Grow a world from network traffic
February 26, 2007 12:41 PM Subscribe
Packet Garden observes how you use the internet, then takes that info and generates a 3d world based on it. [via]
I'm not sure I would want a world populated by 4chan.
posted by Memo at 12:43 PM on February 26, 2007
posted by Memo at 12:43 PM on February 26, 2007
None of this information is made public or shared in any way
Oh! Whew! That surely set all my fears to rest. Notice that statement doesn't cover anything they themselves might want to do with the info.
posted by gurple at 1:04 PM on February 26, 2007
Oh! Whew! That surely set all my fears to rest. Notice that statement doesn't cover anything they themselves might want to do with the info.
posted by gurple at 1:04 PM on February 26, 2007
Oh! Whew! That surely set all my fears to rest. Notice that statement doesn't cover anything they themselves might want to do with the info.
posted by Memo at 1:18 PM on February 26, 2007
I'm worried about privacy, does Packet Garden tell anyone else about what I do on my computer?
Packet Garden only records a personal log for you to later explore in the form of a 3D garden. As looking at the source-code will confirm, this log doesn't leave your computer. If you're worried about others finding out where you've been on the Internet, don't show them the gardens you grow.
This will undoubtably help in my quest to hack the Gibson.
posted by Artw at 1:33 PM on February 26, 2007
posted by Artw at 1:33 PM on February 26, 2007
It requires I run an installer? Usually that's the domain of things which access the System folder and or install kernel extensions (at least on OS X).
No thanks.
posted by basicchannel at 1:52 PM on February 26, 2007
No thanks.
posted by basicchannel at 1:52 PM on February 26, 2007
Does the big blue hill with the green flags represent the midget donkey pr0n or the nurse fetish?
posted by spacely_sprocket at 2:02 PM on February 26, 2007
posted by spacely_sprocket at 2:02 PM on February 26, 2007
It's a packet sniffer. It uses libpcap to read directly from a network device, so yes, it needs root.
posted by mkb at 2:03 PM on February 26, 2007
posted by mkb at 2:03 PM on February 26, 2007
Aah ok... good point, mkb.
posted by basicchannel at 1:19 PM on February 27, 2007
posted by basicchannel at 1:19 PM on February 27, 2007
No luck getting this thing to work on Mac OS X. :(
It pegs the CPU and always forgets whether it's capturing. I give up.
It also needs the installer because it installs Frameworks that become available system-wide instead of including them in the app bundle , for some reason. Python 2.5 is installed, along with libpcap, SDL, and cal3d, looks like.
It also edits the installing users. ~/.profile which I DO NOT LIKE.
posted by mkb at 8:03 PM on March 1, 2007
It pegs the CPU and always forgets whether it's capturing. I give up.
It also needs the installer because it installs Frameworks that become available system-wide instead of including them in the app bundle , for some reason. Python 2.5 is installed, along with libpcap, SDL, and cal3d, looks like.
It also edits the installing users. ~/.profile which I DO NOT LIKE.
posted by mkb at 8:03 PM on March 1, 2007
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