Leaky Networks and Bareback Browsing : Technopolitics of Leaks

From the moment a computer is turned on and connected to an internet network, it engages in a continuous "dialogue" with other networked machines. This inherent openness is contrasted with how computers are trained to be "monogamous". Usually, when not officially in promiscuous mode, a wireless network card processes all packets and then erases those not directly addressed to it, indicating that our devices are retroactively closed rather than by default.
This behaviour is paralleled with human societal training—from being naturally open and promiscuous to culturally enforced monogamy. Just like bodies, computers and computer practices are influenced by a phallocentric logic that promotes closure and impenetrability as virtues ( and stigmatizes openness and leakiness).
This presentation calls into question the current technopolitics of privacy and closure as a fiction which conceal control and surveillance and proposes to reclaim the promiscuity of our networks, by initiating forms of bareback browsing, "to counter the corporate security of Web 2.0, which is in fact no security, by building new forms of interaction that cannot leak because they do not seek to create imaginary bubbles of privacy between users in the first place". (Chun, 2015)