Ships tell the world where they are. That record is being jammed, spoofed and rewritten. Anopticon is solving for data poisoning in the maritime domain.
Move across the water. Inside the ring, the poisoned reports show.Tap the water. Inside the ring, the poisoned reports show.
Forty-nine ships in the Bosphorus reported positions in Lima, Peru. None of them sailed there.
41.56° N 28.98° E12.04° S 77.05° Wmedian, per ship“Give me the ocular proof.”
Othello asked for proof and took a handkerchief. Most data is still trusted that way. We hand over the evidence and the means to check it.
Poison the data and a model learns the spoof. A hull obeys physics whatever the data says.
One question, asked of every machine that reports where it is. Sea first.
The sea. Now.
Nereus, the old man of the sea. Hesiod calls him the one who is true and lies not
. To get a straight answer from him you had to hold on while he became a lion, a serpent, water.
Ship data shifts shape the same way. Nereus is our work on the sea: what really happened, and the means for anyone to check it.
The watchers. Next.
Argus Panoptes had a hundred eyes and never closed them all. Hermes lulled every one to sleep and killed him anyway.
Watching everything is not the same as seeing what is true. Argus is for the navies and coast guards who watch the sea.
The sky. Later.
Aether, the bright upper air. Bruegel put a warship and a falling Icarus in one frame: sea and sky, each trusting what it is told.
Aircraft broadcast where they are too, and that record can be poisoned the same way. Aether takes the question up.