Why do we show the vulnerability of NGOs and media artists? NGOs and media artists are an important part of the contemporary enlargement and diversification of the political and cultural landscape. They enact a reconstruction of the public domain in a globalised world. The Internet is a crucial tool of these social and political agencies. It facilitates a broad and potentially open system of communication and information. At the same time, there is an increasing awareness that the Internet is encroached by concerns about security: data security, privacy, military security, etc. The dilemma of these security concerns is that they seek to protect a public domain which is corrupted by the very attempts to secure their functionality. This dilemma is the central theme of this project. By scanning the ports of the NGO's and media artists servers we are trying to pinpoint the dilemma of NGOs and media artists having to protect an independent and progressive political and social practice through security measures which are constantly being tried, tested and attacked with ever new invasive tools. In the project, we are using non-invasive SECURITY scanning tools, which systems administrators alike use in order to detect security holes on the Internet servers.				information 2002 Information: Why do we show the vulnerability of NGOs and media artists? Network Context What is a Public Domain Scanner? What is Portscanning? Exhibition Context Art, Media and Legal Issues: Artistic network practice on the bad guys space CODES BAD GUYS SPACE Open Law Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers Public Domain: For the Public Domain Giorgio Agamben On Security and Terror The Patriot Act Quality Security Tools