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:
- Emmanuel Goldstein, the Editor of 2600 Magazine, which inspired our montly meeting, came tovisit, on his way to the CCC summer camp in Germany. He announced next year's The Last HOPE conference, July 18-20 2008, at the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City (the venue is being re-developed, the conference will probably continue in the future, police state permitting)
Picture courtesy of Shaman, who has published a gallery of some more images of Emmanuel Goldstein and some London 2600 regulars going to a noodle restaurant after the meeting.
- Web application (in)security.
- Gary McKinnon, facing extradition to the USA for hacking into over 90 US military systems, will have his extradition appeal heard in the House of Lords, the highest Court in the land.
- Cyberpunk author William Gibson's new novel Spook Country is published in the UK. Signing events @ TUC conference centre 7pm Tuesday 28th August (£7) and Wednesday 29th August @ Forbidden Planet Megastore - see the Spook Country blog for more details.
- Converting a new Windows Vista laptop to run the more stable WIndows XP - SATA hard disk problems.
- BLAG Linux distro from Brixton Linux Action Group
- Silver cyber AJ and other human cyborgs
- Tor 0.1.2.16 security update - fixes remote overwrite of torcc configuration file - install it now !
- More PGP public encryption keys than actual PGP encrypted messages received this year.
- RIPA Part III - Government access to your cryptographic keys or de-crypted plaintext data comes into force on 1st October 2007 - nearly 7 years late !
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- Ingenico point of sale terminal salvaged from a skip from Barclays bank
- Blackhat, Las Vegas,paper on digital image quantisation table software to detect and characterise immage manipulations see Wired story
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