Squawk: Data Retention Edition

Creating noise-as-a-service, as an act of civil disobedience, that attacks the wholesale surveillance of Australian citizens under the data retention program.

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Why not check out Squawk: Search History Noisifier, which seeks to attacks the ability to profile at-risk groups through search histories.

Usage

Manual

Deploying squawk is achieved simply by adding the following line to the head of your web sites:

<script src="https://squawk.cc/squawk.js"></script>

Deploying this code will cause your web site visitors to make a single request to a random IP address, for every request that you serve with the script tag, in order to add noise to the logs being kept by Australian ISPs.

Packages

You can install squawk as a package or module for various systems.

Drupal module: squawk modules for Drupal versions 5, 6, 7 and 8 are available.

Have you created a module or package you'd like to add to this list? Simply create an issue, or submit a pull request to our GitHub repository.

Support

Please consider displaying your support for Squawk by adding the following code to your web site's side bar or footer.

Code

          <style type="text/css">

            .squawk h3, .squawk p {

              text-align: center;

            }

            .squawk .quote {

              font-style: italic;

              font-size: 85%;

            }

          </style>

          <div class="squawk">

            <h3>Proudly Supporting</h3>

            <p class="img"><a href="https://squawk.cc/" target="_blank"><img src="https://squawk.cc/logo.png" alt="squawk logo"></a></p>

            <p class="quote">An act of civil disobedience, that attacks the wholesale surveillance of Australian citizens under the data retention program.</p>

          </div>

Preview

Proudly Supporting

An act of civil disobedience, that attacks the wholesale surveillance of Australian citizens under the data retention program.

Things we want to do

Avert DDoSs (throttling requests)
Emulate real usage more closely:
- Delays with a couple of requests per page load
- Save the IP address in local storage to reuse over a couple of pages
Add HTTPS (can you get us Let's Encrypt access?)
Only run if the requestor is in Australia
Only make requests to Australian IP addresses
Internationalise

Contributors

Primary thanks need to go to Nick Moore for coming up with the idea and roping me in to creating it over a pint in Hobart. Partial thanks also to Hobart for the great beer!

Like it or not, products just aren't adopted if they don't look good. I'd like to thank @kattekrab for the logo, which not only reflects the project's onomatapoeic name perfectly, it's also a little cocky! See what I did there?

Thanks, also, to these awesome people for submitting pull requests to make the project better: Rick Measham, Francis Kim.