Friday 6th April 2007 London 2600 meeting report
Here is a flavour of some of the sort of things we chatted about this month.. This is not a substitute for coming along to the meetings in person:
- "shouting" CCTV surveillance cameras and technologies and their implications for privacy and security.
- Section 61 - UK urban exploration magazine
- Gary McKinnon - lost Appeal Court hearing against extradition to the USA for hacking US Military systems. He has a couple of weeks to try to appeal to the House of Lords, who are not obliged to hear his appeal.
- Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 is now in force: - up to 5 years in prison for offering to re-programme the International Mobile Equipment Identifier (IMEI) of your mobile phone. N.B. this could also mean offering to change the IP addresses or Digital Certificates on mobile smartphones and phone enabled PDA's or laptop computers, due to the overbroad wording of the Mobile Telephones (Re-programming) Act 2002, which uses the general term "unique device identifier" rather than specifically just the IMEI. None of this has any positive effect on mobile phone related street crime, as is intended by the Government.
- Plans for an online / real world computer museum for pre-IBM PC home and other computer hardware e.g.
Nascom-2 circa 1980
- Mobile phone location and tracking and jamming.
- Breaking 64bit / 104bit WEP in under a minute - definitely time to change your friends and relatives' BT Homehub and Sony PS3 default WiFi configurations !
- Handy for beige boxing ?
- How "green" is a Sony PS3 ? 300 watts of electrical power consumption !
- Project Lantern mobile roadside Police fingerprint scanners and low speed TETRA encrypted data links. Why are the Police treating dead people all as criminal suspects ?
- The relative merits of segmented microcode kernels versus monolithic kernels (operating system software rather than microcode embedded in central processor hardware chips)
- Hakim Bey's influential writings on Temporary Autonomous Zones and
Pirate Utopiasand today's "underground" internet sub-cultures etc. - The annual Infosecurity Europe trade show, Olympia, Tuesday 24th - Thursday 26th April 2007.
- Hard drive sold as new from well known UK high street electronics retailer found to contain recoverable files including birthday party pictures from a previous user.
- Someone at a rear table running a program that sends fake WiFi access point beacon frames, was immediately noticed by several other people with laptops and a wifi-enabled mobile phone.
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