Case Studies
Listed below are case studies. Each comes with it's own explanation, a link to the the image file, and an MD5 sum associated with that image. Some have been analyzed and are presented with the supporting information. Some are presented as interesting images which have not yet been analyzed.
Agrippa
For background on Agrippa, please see this link. (From that page:) "Agrippa (a book of the dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr." It was both literary and performance art, designed to be played once on a computer, after which it would encrypt itself never to run again.
This past summer, Matt Kirschenbaum at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) approached the DFL for help imaging what is now an obsolete floppy disk format (Apple's 800k floppy). With the help of some very old laptops and linux, we were able to image the disk, but suspect from examining the image that this copy had been run and was therefore encrypted. There are still some interesting tidbits in the image, though, and it's worth a look.
Agrippa image file
MD5 = ab678db631246ec2d758ab2f51b1a6f6
Amazon Kindle
One of several new e-book reader devices, Amazon's Kindle boasts free cellular connectivity in the US, which is used to download paid content. And they put a web brower on there. And it plays MP3s. It allows annotations and bookmarks in the ebooks, which can easily be created from your own documents using free software. Many surprises await!
Kindle Image file
MD5 = 050be4533e59cee83d7c8230c043b636
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