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by Jenny Ryan

Thanks for everyone who came and participated today! Good fun, many learns :) Posting this to sudo-discuss as well - join the Cryptoparty mailing list here: https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/cryptoparty Reposted for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Cryptoparty =February 2014= This cryptoparty took place on 16 February 2014 with no less than 20 engaged attendees :) ==Areas of Interest== *Mobile security *Backups (especially photos) *Cyanogenmod *Threat Modelling *VOIP *Installing Linux *Installing Lastpass *Running DNSSEC *Playing with alternative, secure email systems *Chat/OTR on Android *Image metadata ==Agenda== *Intros and what you're looking to get out of this cryptoparty *Why security is important *Split up into groups: **Mobile security **Lastpass (password management) **Threat modelling (eg; activists on the street) ==Takeaways== *GPG *Tails is hard to get running on my machine *TextSecure is easy! *Helped people set up secure chats, emails, and texting *Great one-on-one conversations *Learned a good deal about Keypass and got it running with help! *Learned about F Droid - an app store for procuring APKs without going through GOogle Play *Made a self-signed certificate and locked down CalDav *Threat modeling - we're not much better prepared than we were with Occupy. As an iPhone user, I'm pretty screwed no matter what. Need to talk to lawyers re: handing over keys and such *DNSSEC sucks! DNS is already terrible, but DNSSEC makes it worse! Clients don't use it, registrars don't accommodate it, and if you try to use it you're in for a headache. *The latest version of Cyanogenmod forces you to use their cloud for your contacts, which now must be sync'd with a cloud. *Suggestion: Cryptoparty Movie Night! *Suggestion: Linux Install Parties *Feedback: Splitting the group into "let's do this now" and general discussion was a great idea! *Homemade vs. commercial Faraday cages for phones, and general physical security *How to make this knowledge more palatable to the general public? Comics etc; *Best cryptoparty yet! Folks came with specific questions; paired off really smoothly; no uber-techie debates taking place; specific tasks and breakout topics. ==Gratuitous Link Dump== *[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] for secure password management. *[https://f-droid.org/ F-Droid] *[https://securityinabox.org/en/thuderbird_encryption How to Use Enigmail with Thunderbird] *[http://openphoto.net/ OpenPhoto (facilitates backing up photos to your own server)] *[http://www.frontlinesms.com/ Frontline SMS] *[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.slvn.appops&hl=en AppOps - permissions for Android] ===VOIP Services=== *[http://code.google.com/p/csipsimple/ CSIP Simple] *[http://code.google.com/p/sipdroid/ SIPDroid] ===Custom Android ROMs=== *[http://www.teamdirt.me/ Dirty Unicorns] *[http://paranoidandroid.co/ Paranoid Android]

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Machine learning, Bioinformatics and Comp Biology - With Amazon

by Ryan Bethencourt

Hi All, Amazon Web Services are giving a talk right next to Sudo room on Tuesday and they've invited anyone who's interested in utilizing their platform to do Machine learning, Bioinformatics or Computational Biology to come and join. Feel free to RSVP if you'd like to come along and speak with the Amazon team (we'll get you on the guest list)! http://www.meetup.com/Berkeley-Biolabs/events/166519482/ All the best, Ryan -- Ryan Bethencourt Tel: (415) 825 2705 Conf Call: (650) 741 5013 ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com http://www.litmususa.com/ http://berkeleybiolabs.com/ www.bamh1.com www.linkedin.com/in/bethencourt www.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php

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Dumpster Alert

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Short dumpster with clean wood long palettes with 2x4s and 4x4s just outside sudo on 2nd outside umami burger east of Broadway // Matt

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March Public School Events

by niki

Hey all! I just wanted to let you guys know that the Public School has scheduled the following events to be held in March: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Thursday, March 20th at 7pm:* Radical fiction, mystery, and crime! With Ken Wishnia, Norman Nawrocki, Sin Soracco, Nick Mamatas, Owen Hill, and Summer Brenner. *Saturday, March 22nd at 7pm:* Silvia Federici and and George Caffentzis on Capital, Labor and Reproduction, George is author of In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism<https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=424> and coeditor of The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual<https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=563> *Sunday, March 23rd at 7pm:* John P. Clark on Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisée Reclus<https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=565> and scott crow on Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective<https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=221> *Monday, March 24th at 7pm:* Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein on Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements<https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=567> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I plan to check with George about possibly using the room downstairs for our event on Thursday, March 20th to ensure that it will not interfere w/Mesh and JavaScript meetups that evening. The events scheduled for Saturday the 22nd, Sunday the 23rd and Monday the 24th will be held in the common space. Please let me know if you foresee any conflicts - I didn't notice any on the calendar aside from Thurs. Love, Niki

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Re: [sudo-discuss] someone hacking the SudoRoom Wiki

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

To check the recent changes and help combat spam, check out https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "Romy Ilano" <romy(a)snowyla.com> To: "sudo-discuss" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudo-discuss] someone hacking the SudoRoom Wiki Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 15:58 Hey, I just fixed a hack on the SudoRoom main page. Someone is hacking the SudoRoom Wiki - I don't know who, I know this probably happens often. Are there safety precautions? https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Sudoroom&action=history I undid the "hardcore jerkey action" - and I saw that someone also undid this shortly before I went on the page. Any idea wh'os doing this? ============================= Romy Ilanoromy(a)snowyla.com

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Growing Army Of Women Take On Wikipedia

by Romy Ilano

So cool and way better than a torturous tech talk Complaining about the problem http://www.businessinsider.com/growing-army-of-women-take-on-wikipedia-2014… A Growing Army Of Women Are Taking On Wikipedia's Sexism Problem Wikipedia/Gerald Shields These people gathered for an Arts WikiMedia Edit-a-thon With all the depressing stories about sexism in the tech industry, it's easy to overlook some really fantastic things helping to improve the situation. For instance, there's a growing army of women who are trying to end Wikipedia's well-documented gender gap – fewer than 15% of Wikipedia editors around the world, it acknowledges – which has given the crowdsourced information site an arguably sexist bent. Instead of complaining about it, various groups of women have begun organizing edit-a-thons, days set aside where people (women and men) gather, write and edit articles about women for Wikipedia. Writing an article isn't always enough. Regular Wikipedia editors, called administrators, can delete articles and changes. So, these groups first get trained on Wikipedia's rules to ensure their articles and edits stick. One of the earliest women-in-tech edit-a-thons happened about two years ago, when the Wikimedia offices in San Francisco held a Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon. About 40 people showed up. They learned the rules of making changes that would stick and edited over 20 articles and created 11 new ones, according to the Wikipedia article on the event. Flash forward to two weeks ago, when a New York group that calls itself Art+Feminism organized an edit-a-thon to focus on Wikipedia pages for female artists. It drew 600 participants, in 6 countries, at 61 locations, and created 101 new articles and improved another 90. And that group has already got more edit-a-thons scheduled for later in February and in March. The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that supports Wikipedia, couldn't be happier. Wikimedia spokesperson Jay Walsh told Business Insider: "This recent example of edit-a-thons aimed at bringing in more women has been really impressive - dozens of groups around the US and Canada (and I believe Europe and beyond) got involved and carried out these day-long sessions, which included both men and women. It's a really important way for people who have knowledge to share, but no experienced editing Wikipedia, to get comfortable with the process." ---- Snowyla.com Romyilano.com

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Struggling To Win: Chilean Anarchists on Tour (at Sudo!) this Saturday 8pm

by David Keenan

Hi all, There's a proper flyer posted up now, and an fb event for the thing happening on Saturday at the space. It should be pretty cool. Check it out: Sudoroom flyer/event: https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/struggling-to-win-anarchist s-building-popular-power-in-chile-speaking-tour Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/695609710491680/ BAPS event: http://thepublicschool.org/node/36449 8PM SATURDAY! Chile has a long history of working class struggle in shanty towns, factories, mines, community organizations, and schools. In the 20 years after the US supported coup which overthrew Salvador Allende's government, much of the organizing was done underground. However after the fall of the dictatorship in 1990, there was a new rise of mass popular organization in the country. Anarchists have been a major force in the social movements, strategically organizing to build power. This has manifested in solidarity for the Mapuches, anarchists winning the student union elections at the University of Chile, militant pro-abortion actions, and libertarian labor organizations. This national tour brings three individuals involved in these struggles to talk about the lessons learned and to create solidarity across hemispheres. >From January to the end of February, the speakers will be traveling throughout the country and we hope that you can spread the word and hear about the important work that is happening in Chile. And on Saturday, February 22, they will at last be at the Bay Area Public School and Sudo Room! Join us and AK Press in welcoming them at 2141 Broadway (enter on 22nd, elevate to 2nd floor) at 8pm sharp. Space is handicapped accessible, and always: free!! Want more info? See: http://chilespeakingtour.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/strugglingtowin http://thepublicschool.org/node/36449 https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/struggling-to-win-anarchist s-building-popular-power-in-chile-speaking-tour

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TechnoActivism 3rd Monday -- 2/17, EFF HQ, 815 Eddy St, 6PM

by Danny O'Brien

This month's Techno-Activism Third Monday is the Monday After The Day We Fought Back. We'll be chatting with some of the key organizers of the protest, both on the domestic and international side. Come to EFF's headquarters at 815 Eddy St, at 6PM on Monday, and find out about the tech, the strategy, the results of TDWFB -- and give your feedback and ideas for tomorrow's fight. We'll also be talking about outreach about digital security to the communities who need it most. How do we teach crypto to vulnerable groups in the real world? Your hosts will be Danny O'Brien and Jillian York, with April Glaser as your special guest-star. Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology. Currently, TA3M are held in fifteen cities throughout the world, and growing. As the name implies, it is held on the third Monday of each month. Here is where EFF is: http://www.openstreetmap.org/go/TZHvUrLDP Please turn up before 6PM -- we'll buzz you after that but before 6.16PM if you call +1 408 480 3412. See you there! d.

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co-working space

by Deno Vichas

Hey all! I need a co-working space for 3 people for tomorrow and Sunday that's clean and has good internets. Something near a Bart station in Berkeley, Oakland, or anywhere in SF would be good. On the cheaper side would be nice. Thanks, Deno

10 years, 11 months

Meeting Notes 2/12

by Jenny Ryan

Reposted for posterity at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-02-12 ==Intros== Q: What's (not not) going to happen to us? * Matt [sudo space], Sam (thousands of cores), Juul (planet-hacking), yar (some, then more), John (idk), Jenny (ACTUAL membership thing), Ardeen, Haley, Scott (a kickass show in the space), Xavier, Daniel, Eric (rally & seize opportunities), Troy, Brendan (electronic robots in space?), Chris (inventing better hand cleaner), Jeremy, Noemie, JC (go to zero) ==Announcements== * Calendar https://sudoroom.org/calendar * Berkeley Biolabs is up! ** http://berkeleybiolabs.com/ ** bioreactor hack night tomorrow (feb 13) http://www.meetup.com/Berkeley-Biolabs/events/165489532/ ** "biohacker in residence" open house next week (feb 20) (meetup event not up yet) * Cryptoparty this Sunday, 2-5pm - Learn digital security and encrypt your hard drive, phone calls, text messages etc; - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Cryptoparty * Troy found 16 years of communist literature on the street * Slingshot new volunteer meeting Feb. 23rd @ The Long Haul, 4pm ** Looking for someone who wants to work on a calendar app *** Phil might be able to help ** Other slingshot announcement from Haley about notpublicschool * Haley and Sam want to start the first cyber-punk LARP rule system on the West Coast with simultaneous microcontroller programming language development! Get in contact with Haley about either at samarasteele(a)gmail.com * John (jbaldo(a)gmail.com) - event Startup Weekend Education - week of Feb. 21st - competition over a weekend in collaboration with Oakland Unified teachers. Civic hacking & Education: http://oaklandedu.startupweekend.org/ ** Usually $100 / ticket, wants to give away a couple of tickets to sudo room. ** Brendan is interested * trilobytes brought back to life * Show at sudo room w/ Scott - Feb. 28th - all ages, 100+ people * first Omni delegates meeting tomorrow night AT the Omni - open but RSVP - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/The_Omni * RPS Collaboration ** website redesigning is cool ** wordpress teaching is excellent ** in exchange, they have offered to give us a lot of beer (i.e. 15 crates) [people are stoked] *** They have a stereo receiver on loan, want to keep it! Hence the beer offer ** Also want to exchange by painting the Wobbly Wheels pedicab out front. ** What should RPS do for us?? *** Mesh project could use a designer, if people want to opt in **** Also set up a mesh node on their building for peoplesopen.net *** Jeremy will make a wiki page for a list of items and email about it! * "Art party" happens 6pm 3rd Saturdays at the Belfry (church at 2735 MacArthur @ Coolidge) (57 bus line) ==To-Do== * slay zombie events that show up when importing from calendar [matt] * Use Stripe [jenny, contingent on bank acct] * Bank Account - we need to send Articles of Inc. [matt] - DONE * Renew lease - David to investigate insurance options - matt will ping him * Add features to RPS's wordpress: http://rpscollective.org/ - Jeremy met with them [DONE] ** Jeremy will make a wiki page for a list of items and email about it! * Fix our inside door, the cables got severed - DONE - jake fixed it! sudokudos :D * reach out to sudo folks & others to participate in Spied Upon event [Jenny] * reply to radical mycology people with principles about for-pay events [Jenny] - done, no response as of yet * fix our LMI phone line - is the DSL filter broken or the phone cable shorted? [DONE by marc] ** juul fixed it and added caller id (but the caller id needs an extension cord) ==New Members== * Xavier * Jeremy * Noemie * Jenny is working on a better automated system * Matt elaborates non-dollar ways to contribute ==Money== * We have $8701.21 in the bank account * This week, received $500 anonymous donation! * We make exactly pi $314.16 on Gittip https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ ** debate over whether a 5 or a 6 is more appropriate * Need to come to consensus on Internet Archive Federal Credit Union item below to get new bank account ;) ==Consensus Items== * Proposal to ban ardeen ** https://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2014-February/005374.html ** yar thinks ban sounds harsh - maybe temporary? 2 months? ** "To empower members to deal with problematic non-members, non-members can be removed by a member who feels their behavior is problematic, *unless* another member present in the space is willing to vouch for the non-member as a guest. Non-members being asked to leave must be told that they can further discuss the incident at a Wednesday meeting or on the mailing list. Non-members can use the space as much as they want when other members are present, but cannot access the space when no members are there and have to leave when the last member leaves." ** Ardeen is present and pleading forgiveness, but Marc still doesn't trust him ** Matt hadn't received an apology until now and is not happy. He finds "the whole narrative disrespectful". He'd rather things be about the community respecting each other and not about conflicts and bans. (?) ** Ardeen feels he tried to reach out and was treated with anger and vendetta ** yar hears "it's not about sleeping or breaking rules, it's about respect" but thinks the email seemed about exactly that ** conversation gets heated, yar imposes stack with 30 second time limit each ** voting *** 6 votes for a permanent ban of ardeen *** 1 against - ardeen himself *** 5 abstaining *** this is less than 2/3. motion fails. ** vote on a temporary one-month banning of ardeen *** 12 for *** 0 against *** 2 abstains *** motion passes. Matt notes that the Public School has voted to uphold our bans. * proposal to ban sarah ** "She isn't here. Word she's left the city." ** "she's been sleeping here after being warned, and also knowingly ate my food." ** "she's had conflicts at Noisebridge and refused arbitration there, which is not a good sign" ** "I'd support this ban more if it were about violence or extreme disrespect" ** "We need a committee on social affairs" ** voting *** 5 in favor *** 0 against *** 6 abstentions *** motion seems to fail? *** Feedback from abstainers: **** Having a calm person unattached to the conflict to serve as ally for **** Permanent bans pretty harsh - people can change **** Homelessness is a transient condition **** process is broken since abstentions and no-votes seemed to be equivalent here **** Eliot suggests permanent bans be reserved for violent oppression, but supports long-term bans *** "I will reach out to her and say she's not banned but she's not welcome and should come to a meeting" *** JC offers mediation in future conflicts * "sudo room resolves to allow the Internet Archive Federal Credit Union to make deposits." ** There are no objections. We all feel pretty good to be voting on this. * Suggestion that we auto-ban anyone who has been banned by noisebridge unless at least one member objects. New bans to be adopted at each weekly meeting. - juul ** See https://noisebridge.net/86 for current Noisebridge bans ** Matt suggests inserting a human approval method rather than auto-ban, citing Value # 5 of sudo room's Articles of Association: *** "Value human judgment over automation and efficiency." ** "Would this rule have solved problems in the past" "Yes" "yes" "yes" "YES!" ** "is the burden on individuals to monitor the noisebridge banlist in order to object in time?" ** "it literally just made the process easier with ardeen that public school had a similar vote on our banlist" *** "I didn't actually feel good mentioning BAPS' policy so I don't think that's a point in favor" ** Brendan: "In considering banning individuals from sudo room, it is valid to take into consideration any bans from other communities." ** "I'd prioritize specific kinds of bans such as those involving sexual predators" *** DOES THIS WORK?? "Noisebridge bans can be given a temporary ban at sudo room by request of any member, to last until there is quorum to review the ban. Sudo room will consider all Noisebridge bans as potential bans at sudo room, going through the normal process" ** "There should be an opportunity to lift bans" * Matt suggests a rule that our bureacracy can't be used against us: ** "Value fairness and common sense over prolonged process and bureaucracy." ** "I finds this unimplementable and a little ironic" ** "if you want that to change, develop a mentality for it, don't wait for bureaucracy to solve it" ** "can we move this onto next week's agenda?" [laughter] *** "I propose this be highly prioritized to next week" ** "does anybody have a reason this should not be consensed to be in our articles?" *** "I do. It's an awesome value, but just words." **** That's sort of the point ^.^ it's a poem! ** No consensus yet, more workshopping. * At the November 6, 2013 meeting, there was consensus that Marc Juul should be the sole founder of our IRC channel, freenode.#sudoroom - this was discussed on the mailing list, there have been no blocks or alternatives proposed. This meeting, with 16 people present, affirms that it has been solidly consensed on at this point. Sudoroom as an organization will now reach out to Freenode to make it happen. ** Asked for objections four or five times. No objections. phew! * Juul suggests that we change the articles such that bans require 2/3 of the votes of present members, excluding abstainess. ** "you should just use a normal voting process and not that weird process you just used" ** "can't consent on this now because the problem is deeper than this" ** "do i have to be a dues-paying member to vote?" ==Conflict Resolution== * "kudos to facilitators" ==Misc== * Learning Collective w/ Haley (samarasteele(a)gmail.com) ** villagecraft.org ** wants to have events here ==After meeting teamups== * Cyberpunk LARPing and software Microcontroller development. --------- Thanks to all present for sticking it through this one! --------- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

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