Here is a taste of some of the sort of things we chatted about this month - our version of the Chatham House Rule applies, so nobody is directly identified, in order to promote open communication, even on controversial, sensitive or potentially illegal topics.
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.
- New friends from as far afield as Southampton, old friends from as far away as Edinburgh.
- People planning to attend BrumCon 9 - Stroke of Darkness
- Cracking Windows software passwords on an 8 core processor via IRC.
- The beauty of Donald Knuth's Tex scientific typesetting system and its multi-platform software package system.
- !0 concurrent counts of 9 months in prison, for a mentally vulnerable computer scientist, for refusing to hand over cryptographic keys or the plaintext they were protecting, under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 Part III section 49 to 53 - see Spy Blog - RIPA Part III encryption - category archive
- Finding Automatic Teller Machine manuals on the web via Google.
- The Gary McKinnon case is causing lots of political resentment against Home Secretary Alan Johnson and the rest of the Labour government.
- London 2600 Christmas Party on the 18th December - email meetings@london2600.org.uk with ideas for entertainment, or offers to help, and/or subscribe to the London 2600 email discussion list.
Some stuff for the Christmas Party raffle:
3 Optical Radiation Pyrometers, which exploit the Stephan -Bolzmann law of black body electromagnetic radiation , to measure furnace temperatures remotely:
- Untrustworthy Mandelson's evil Digital Economy Bill 2009 - Copyright law to be amended without primary legislation or debate, internet disconnection of innocent people by inept "lawyer-bots" etc. and the effect on the UK Domain Name industry see also: Digital Economy Bill 2009 seeks to crush UK Internet Domain Registry industry with bureaucratic red tape and unfair legal costs
- What is the difference between Jet Numbers Inc, a provider of Virtual VOiP phone numbers etc., some sort of sophisticated, legal, id theft / marketing scam, given their excessive demands for so much personal identity data and copies of financial documents ??