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.
- Charge Coupled Devices in Digital Cameras
- The Wikileaks.org has shutdown, whilst they beg for money. Note the anonymity protection cockups in their online donations web buttons etc.
WikiLeakS.org and the TipiT.to tip jar - another "web bug"
PayPal suspends donations to WikiLeakS.org, who then "web bug" their own website
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Discussions about setting up a London 2600 Tor Exit Node Relay, using a hosted Virtual Server instance with lots of bandwidth, which could also be used for other London 2600 projects. email meetings@london2600 if you are interested
- Jehovah's Witness's Watchtower propaganda booklet -Technology Blessing or Curse ?
- Card Logix SmartCards
- If you happen to work for a big Public Relations firm in the City of London, and your boss also happens to be a Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, you really should not leave your notebook on a Bus, with details of meetings you have set up both at the Party Conference last autumn, or with the senior management of investment companies or privatised former UK Government defence industry manufacturers like QinetiQ, or with Mayor of London Boris Johnson's Office etc.
- "see through your children's clothes" imaging scanner "security theatre" at airports
- Apparently, London 2600 meetings have been happening since Friday 5th February 1993 i.e. for exactly 17 years
- Pros of the National ID Card in Finland versus the appalling UK National Identity Scheme with its centralised biometric database and secret (from the public) transaction log file snooping.
- How to get more women to come along to London 2600 meetings.