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.
- Computer Misuse Act amendments - inadequate Crown Prosecution Service Guidance
- Commodore 64 nostalgia - sprite graphics and white noise in hardware
- Ongoing laughter and tears at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs data privacy and security disaster
- Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin - PapalLazarus and friends
- Security Policy documentation idiocy
- Dr. K is has been commissioned to write a Hacker's Handbook V3.0 - dealing with Cyberthreats
- Sony PSP hacks - here is one showing the 2600 Magazine homepage
- London 2600 GeoCaching group is forming - email us if you are interested.
- London 2600 mailing list (again) - more details when this is set up
- Vodafone 3G branded datacard - allegedly 384Kbs with pay as you go SIM, 1.8Mbs with HSDPC enabled SIM using T-Mobile.
Connected via T-Mobile, and M$ Windows Internet Connection Sharing via WiFi:
However, T-Mobile seem to be censoring the London 2600 website !
http://tmuk.content-lock.t-mobile.net/cop/adult?TZ_MISDNS=nnnnnnn
Content Lock has barred this service because the site is rated 18. If you areover 18, you can access this site aand others like it if you register to remove Content Lock RegisterSInce T-Mobile ask you for a Credit Card number to "register", this page is an ideal "phishing" target !
But the internet routes around censorship e.g. using TOR: or HTTPTunnel.
- Fierce Domain Scan - multi-threaded Perl script for DNS Zone transfers and dictionary enumeration of a company organisation's domain names - sometimes internet DNS reveal details of internal machines etc.
- The Last HOPE- July 18th - 20th, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York
- Brum 2600 stylee Quote of the Evening:
On tasting some obscure Japanese candy - "Hello Kitty droppings ?"
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- Thanks to the people who spot mistakes in this report - how about contributing your own observations, either by email or in the Comments below ?