Here is a taste 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: - remember that everyone is welcome, no matter your age or experience or skills (or lack of them), from both sides of the legal fence.
- Laughter and tears at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs data privacy and security disaster - some people's lives could have been put at risk,not merely bank account details.
- Privacy / Security - fighting the database state - new NO2ID Pledge campaign
- The Hackers Voice Telecomms DIgest Issue #1 print magazine
- Thanks to the Hacker Voice crew for giving away sundry interesting hardware and software stuff. Here are some of the "freebie vultures" circling the goodies boxes:
- Mobile Phone seizures and smuggling in Prisons. - BBC Radio 4 IPM programme and blog picked up on this from Spy Blog Thousands of Mobile Phones seized in UK Prisons - evidence of corruption ?
- Even more locks and lockpicks (and juggling balls) than last month:
- 24th Chaos Communication Congress - Berlin - December 27th to 30th, 2007
- Insights into the incompetence at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, the Assets Recovery Agency and the Serious Organised Crime Agency, from a passing Tax Lawyer who we impressed with our discussion of the UK legal system and Magna Carta.
- Zap's Employment Tribunal decision - now gone to Appeal
- Birmingham 2600 stylee Quote of the Evening:
"That's a load of bollox !!!"