FaceLeaks

Author	Dušan Barok
Title	FaceLeaks
Date	2010
Medium	software, website
Current location
	FaceLeaks.info (archived)
Exhibition history	Rebelhuis, Rotterdam, December 2010. [1] Enter: Datapolis, 5th art-science-technology biennale, Prague, Czech Republic, April 2011.
Notes	Faceleaks is a Firefox/Chrome add-on which attaches a leak button to Facebook photos, allowing user to leak them to www.faceleaks.info website which has a visual appearance of Wikileaks Cablegate website. The browser add-on is a Greasemonkey user script written in JavaScript language and subsequently compiled to XPI format compatible with Firefox browsers. The add-on was then pointed to forward the adresses of leaked Facebook pictures to the Faceleaks.info website, which was designed to mock the Cablegate page at the Wikileaks.org website, including a logo of Facebook default icon mashupped with the official Wikileaks logo. FaceLeaks website only stores the web addresses of the leaked pictures as they are publicly accessible even if set to private on Facebook. The XPI file was uploaded to the official Add-ons for Firefox website maintained by Mozilla Foundation, along with the short description of the add-on. The information about the project was then sent to the experimental browser software repository, Artzilla.org, which included it in their database. Information about the project was shared via social networks without a direct interference of the author, also following the public presentation of the add-on at the Rebelhuis exhibition in Rotterdam. There was another version of add-on created in PEM format, compiled into CRX format for Chrome browsers, and included in the Faceleaks.info website. The source code for both versions was finally made publicly available and uploaded to Gitorious repository.
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