London 2600 meetings

• Apologies to anyone who was looking for us at the Trocadero between 7pm and 7.30pm - we decided to move on earlier than usual. The basement is turning into some sort of souk with market stalls filling up what used to be the public walkway,
• BrumCon 06 - Saturday 7th October in Birmingham
• CCTV camera surveillance, including the New Statesman article with details of the Trocadero CCTV control centre.
• PIC microcontroller hardware electronics and software project - a data logger to start with perhaps ?
• Cybercandy webcam - hacker drinks - Jolt Cola and Mountain Dew Code Red
• The inside of a contactless door entry smartcard looks like this:
  
• Interesting Javascript Port Scanner proof of concept by SPI Dynamics Implications for AJAX and possible exploits of home or office routers and WiFi access points from within the firewall.
• Next week in the House of Lords - Police and Justice Bill - amendment to the controversial new dual use "hacker tools" addition to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 - is this sufficient to prevent innocent IT systems and network administrators and security researchers and programmers from being criminalised for doing their work professionally ?
• Gary McKinnon is still awaiting the verdict of the High Court on his Extradition to the USA.
• Old school London 2600 history - where are they now ?
• Is Tor and an open WiFi internet access point sufficient to "hide your tracks" ?
• Hacker Voice Radio print magazine - hints and tips on production and distribution.
• GPS satellite navigation how it works and how to jam or spoof it.
• Artificial Intelligence
• Zap is back, apparently 9-)
• Tube Party - Friday 20th October. Last carriage on a Circle Line train on the London Underground - it takes about an hour for the complete journey back to the start location. Bring food, drink, computer networking equipment, walkie talkie radios, disguises etc.

  Act "normal" at stations - have phun in between.

  Start location - not yet public
  Start time - not yet public
  Direction of travel - not yet public - obviously either clockwise or anticlockwise
  

  email: TubeParty@nym.hush.com with suggestions and for the details so far agreed.

  PGP key

  See what similar Circle Line parties organised by the Space Hijackers have been like.

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