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happy bartstrike day! sudo will be open at 10AM

by Marina Kukso

hi all, happy bartstrike day. for any of you who are able to work from home, sudo room will be open by 10AM. if awaken cafe hasn't been ransacked yet, there may even be vegan donuts in it for you! =O - marina

11 years, 6 months

Fwd: 7/2013 Statement, 2135 Broadway

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, we are paying the rent today. - marina ----- Forwarded message ----- From: "Laurie Cooperman Rosen" <Lscoop(a)comcast.net> To: <exchequer(a)sudoroom.org> Cc: <eddan(a)eddan.com>, <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> Subject: 7/2013 Statement, 2135 Broadway Date: Sun, Jun 30, 2013 04:17 Dear Sudo Room- Attached please find the 7/2013 Statement. Thank you! There was a disconcerting incident today where somebody sprayed graffiti on and around the ADA toilet upstairs. If anybody has a lead on this or saw something suspicious, please let us know, as we can't pick up that area on camera :-(. Thanks~ Laurie & George

11 years, 6 months

Citizen Science and the Gonorrhea Eradication Team!

by Marc Juul

The Gonorrhea Eradication Team is a citizen science project launched out of sudo room: http://www.sudoroom.org/wiki/Phage_therapy We're a small group of hackers and scientists that are trying to crowdfund our initial lab rental and supplies in order to get the research started. The goal is, as the name states, to cure Gonorrhea using phage therapy. This is important since Gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics! Much more info on our crowdfunding campaign website: http://www.wepay.com/donations/gonorrhea-eradication-team Hopefully we'll be able to transition from rented lab space to Counter Culture Labs ( the upcoming east bay diybio space ) in a few months. Stay excellent. -- Marc

11 years, 6 months

Sudo-Mesh Social Club

by Eddan Katz

As my task from this past week for the Mesh group has been to do some more research on tax structure advantages and disadvantages - I wanted to share my excitement about 501(c)(7) with everyone. Social Clubs! Check it out -- http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Other-Non-Profits/Social-Clubs. Examples of 501(c)(7) ---- College social/academic fraternities and sororities Country clubs Amateur hunting, fishing, tennis, swimming and other sport clubs Dinner clubs that provide a meeting place library, and dining room for members Variety clubs Hobby clubs Homeowners or community associations whose primary function is to own and maintain recreational areas and facilities

11 years, 6 months

So real... 2 inventions of appropriate technology uploaded today. Woo woo! Both on sudo room wiki :) :)

by Eddie Che

respec the artIST! Anticapitalism... total cost of all the constructions so far is zero. <3 <3 sustainable fire is free, and paper books I know y'all love em. ~~ 1. Free zinebook final version https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Art_of_Bookbinding http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_To_Make_a_Free_Zinebook.jpg 2. Rocket stove remade, and instructions at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Art_and_Revolution http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rocket_Stove_Finished.jpg So real. Hope you all enjoy. Metal Experiments also up here. We have adapted many power tools which allow near-professional fabrication. -- Eddie Miller, BU '10 eddiemill(a)gmail.com | 440-935-5434 Facebook.com/eddiemill | Twitter.com/eddiemill

11 years, 6 months

How do you get into sudoroom

by Gregg Horton

11 years, 6 months

On the technical and legal aspects of security, transparency, and audibility of the NSA surveillance data.

by Jae Kwon

There is debate about whether the NSA's PRISM program is related to Palantir's products. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Palantir-Prism-Fac… Whether they are related or not, it seems that the government's claims of transparency and audibility of the NSA's PRISM program is related (perhaps directly) to the claims of Palantir's. Search for "immutable auditing" below: http://www.palantir.com/wp-content/static/pg-analysis-blog/2009/07/Privacy-… It seems that even professor Lessig has bought into their marketing. http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/54268127504/on-the-freedom-to-speak (Palantir's product is the kind of thing that prof Lessig had always wanted, as you can read in his book "Code: and Other Laws of Cyberspce". In trying to strike a "balance" between copyright and privacy, prof Lessig proposes solutions that fail to prevent blanket government surveillance.) We need to scrutinize these technically incredible claims. I wager that for any given system that touts immutable audibility, there is a way to hack around it. As long as the NSA can tap the wires and record information in vast databases for cold storage, we are absolutely in risk. Technical/legal concepts that need to be scrutinized: * immutable audit log (see http://www.std.com/~cme/non-repudiation.htm) * non-repudiation * chain of custody - JaeKwon

11 years, 6 months

chez hack donations

by John Lockwoos

hi, i live in marin and heard about the hackerspace starting. i would not only like to be involved, but would like to donate an extra office chair. its in my car and was going to go a thrift shop tomorrow. would it be welcome and can i drop it off today? if so, address? -John

11 years, 6 months

Does Sudo Room need one of these?

by Ray Lai

http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/27/handibot-smart-tool-hits-kickstarter Raymond Lai Ice Cream Man Atomic Ice Cream Facebook.com/MotoAtomico

11 years, 6 months

DOORCAM README (redacted for SR security)

by johanna faust

** * NOTE PLEASE: ‡ means the actual exact details are in the confidential readme, attached, whose password you should know, which i strongly encourage SRers read instead of this. plus the layout didn't get screwed up. in particular, what looks like redactions below is merely what happens when you cut and paste graphics. ‡'s are where the info was. ok. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Concernynge The Camera, &c,* *or,* *Some Obseruations * *Happily Pursuant * *to a * *Greater Securitie* ** *a hopefully platform-independent explanation * *of her work so far* *by* *a female faust* * * * introduction* because i only did what i knew i could, of all i conceive may be true about this setup, certainly it needeth a readme, by way of explanation. therefore, upon well founded advice i hereby attempt to document my work (something i have never done before in this realm) & thus enable & invite help to advance the cause...... * what about that machine downstairs?* warning : if that cam is not recording i will have to go back in & do some more cobbling, more frankensteinian *(/fræ*ŋ*k-*ɛ*n-*ʃ*t-ēē-nē-*ə*n/)** *than faustian no doubt. because it has to work. a. s. a. p... and because it doesn't work if - it doesn't work - it isn't persistent, or - it doesn't record and would be better if - it can be (securely) accessed from elsewhere other than the computer to which it is attached - it auto uploaded so we didn't have to worry * * * the way i did the doorcam:* the [image: Picture 3.png] is running the smartest OS X (which means that the eminently useful OS 9 has already been broken on it, but can be reinstalled). (however the *Terminal* on it should have most if not all of what you would expect from a 'nix box). An awesome & awesomely painless tutorial that introduced me to *QuickTime Broadcaster*, courtesy of murphymac.com, may be found here<http://murphymac.com/slib/quicktime-broadcaster.htm>; consider it a readme on the program. The version of it that i used came from here <http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/apple/quicktime/qtbroadcaster/>; the pro version of QT from here<http://www.oldapps.com/mac/quicktime.php?old_quicktime=20>* (it says you don't need QT pro but I think you do); the macam download from here <http://sourceforge.net/projects/webcam-osx/?source=dlp>. *more specifically * the relevant files in the box's Apache Webserver (* Library/Webserver/Documents/*) that were used to create what was semi up & running are all called "*works" -- *no filetype for the program-specific * settings* files; the .*sdp & the .mov *for the exported files upon which one must click should one want to stream the image. if you want to change any of the settings you can only do so when it is NOT broadcasting. audio has been disabled by default, to save cpu goodness. i was doing multicast with auto generated IP addresses -- it generates two, one for video & one for audio anyway -- & assigns port numbers automatically. i don't know how this is supposed to work if the audio is enabled, the two address thing. the exported file "*works.mov*" is easily parsed by QuickTime, on a machine running OS X, & on one running Vista. the exported file "*works.sdp*" is easily parsed by VLC, on a machines running OS X, & on a machine running i-didn't-ask-but-possibly-linux. please see the awesome & awesomely painless murphymac tutorial mentioned above, if for no other reason than the awesomeness. well, that & that it tells you almost everything you need to know. *because i wanted it to stream painlessly* i needed the stream to not be overly consumptive of bandwidth: i was looking for a way that it could be served by an intermediary computer. i am relatively new at this (no! really?) so i am not sure without further study if my solution accomplished this.... it would have to work well first... but here's what i did (with some detail in case any one wants to follow up on one of the other alternatives so they can have what benefit may be had from my work). *youtube* i tried to upload the .*mov *to youtube but it was not fooled by the Quicktime wrapper. *blogger version one* ditto blogger. *ustream* i had tried to stream using the camera & *ustream.tv* originally, on the account i made just for that purpose, but *'/%@ ustream, probably in an effort to make the user either go pro or upgrade or both, makes it extremely (*extremely) *difficult. could not log in -- buttons unclickable or missing, kept redirecting to a sign up page. i hate it when i am told i cannot do something for no ≈®&/?†&$! reason. so i logged in with my other, slightly newer power-pc laptop -- whilst sniffing the exchanged packets -- studied the results & cobbled together some urls. so if you want to log into ustream, there's a file with a couple urls in it, ‡ & there's a folder with some relevant cookies in it‡. i really don't think the cookies are that relevant, but if they are, replace the ones already there with them.‡ the file is visible.‡ open it & you will find the following two url's‡ -- enter the long one & then the short one into the address bar of *Safari* ([image: Pasted Graphic 5.tiff].in the dock, or click on the Finder, or on the Desktop background, & go to /Applications/Safari) (sure, install Firefox, but it will be slow!) the long one will return a whole bunch of plaintext, or it will download it. ignore that & enter the shorter one anyway. ‡ you are then on the dashboard. *et voila.* however, i found had the same problem again when i wanted to broadcast or *go-live *as the natives call it, & no longer had the patience. if someone wants me to i can sniff & cobble for that as well -- shouldn't be hard. whatever that means. i may do it anyway -- then we wouldn't have to worry about recording -- & wouldn't need an application running on the box -- or would at the very least, if we ran both, have a backup. *what i ended up doing* was taking the .*mov*‡ & encoding it in base64, something that i have been known to do & may in fact be quite... *fond...* ....of. let's leave it at that for now, hmmm? in any event by doing so, that is, by borrowing the structure of the old embed code that youtube, which is google, still supports (because untold millions of embeds would break otherwise), & plugging in the *data-encoded URI*, i was able to get it past Blogger. the html:‡ *<object height="315" width="420"><param name="movie" value="data:video/quicktime;base64,blahblahdataencodedblah"></param>* *<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>* *<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>* *<embed src="data:video/quicktime;base64,blahblahdataencodedblah" type="video/quicktime" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>* and the result was live (at least on the boxes i tested, more on that below) at my least visited (and least used) blogspot.‡ *if the camera becomes unrecognized * at first -- way at the beginning, after i set up the [image: Pasted Graphic.tiff] -- the camera went unrecognized, since it was not firewire; it became recognized & remained so after i futzed with it. here's what i did: - renamed the top usb port with *open firmware* so that open firmware thought it was firewire ‡ - (*sudo nvram* probably has a way but - i did it by booting into *open firmware *by holding down the "o" & "f" keys at startup & then - entering "*devalias*" & - noting the pci hw address of the top usb port which one could tell because the keyboard & mouse were in the other one, & then - "*devalias [whatever-i-nicknamed-the-firewire] [/the-old-firewire-address]*"‡ to save the address somewhere i wouldn't misplace it & everyone else could get to it & - "*devalias fw [/whatever-it-was/hub@ -whatever-wasn't-the-keyboard]*"‡ to name the usb port the traditional "*fw*" which all the other routines would expect firewire to be called - "reset-all" which restarts the machine - AND - by opening Terminal ([image: Pasted Graphic 9.tiff] in the *dock** *or* /System/Applications/#1Utilities/Terminal*) & piping the command at the heart of the application *macam *to the command at the heart of *QuickTime Broadcaster, *a terminal command that looks like "*/Applications/macam | /Applications/QuickTime\ Broadcaster*)‡ after which it FINALLY recognized the camera, & has ever since. *if a way cannot be found to record the stream* pipe it over the network to the upstairs computer (watch that tutorial & it will be a snap -- there's a setting to broadcast to just one machine) & record it from there. DO NOT TRUST the "*save to disk*" feature unless you personally verify that the resultant files may be played. they are certainly fat enough to be movies, & they look like movies when i opened them as text (something i love to do), but i could not get functioning videoplayback. if that fails just attach a big enough hard drive externally, quit *quicktime broadcaster & *either use *quicktime** *(a pro version is installed on the box) or better yet, *macam*, which leaves a smaller footprint. waaa. i wanted streaming! but last i checked, there was this problem: *the stream cannot be seen from outside* as the kind soul who chatted with me‡ & others are well aware, though when i actually did leave, one SRer‡ was able to get the stream on his machine. he was, however, inside. the SRer i chatted with earlier‡ pointed out that only being able to get the stream from inside may be all for the best; i will leave that up to what people think. i do not, however, consider it a detriment to my privacy. as a matter of fact, this is one of the rare cases in which i find that i feel the surveillance *enhances* my security, rather than threatening it. that said, i have thought quite a bit about why it seems the stream was not available from outside the local network, & have come to the conclusion that the camera needs to be assigned a static domain-style URL, that points to the LAN ip address, even though the broadcast addresses that the program assigns are static. there is a place i think in the netherlands that has a free dns updating service for just such eventualities, & gives static addresses like DYNDNS used to give, with a freeware updater. & i will probably test this theory. *remember* if you change any of the settings, in order to stream you have to go to the menu along the top of the screen while it is broadcasting & hit *export. * *please *leave me a note if you do, attached to this thread if possible or privately. i will be ever so happy to do the weird data encoding stuff to get the webpage up & running as well. (i think that's cool). & if it all the well no hitch, perhaps then it can graduate & be official on the SR website! *other notables* - the camera needs a drape or divider behind it to block out backlighting, which interferes with the image. - we could use more cameras of course - a real extension cord would rock - locking is good - i was thinking the happy-sudoers-and-oakland-folks-together altar that i made to inaugurate the new era of beefier security could go on top - there needs to be a cabinet or something to put the computer & associated equipment in - i have one in mind that just needs doors put on - that is why i positioned the sign as i did on wednesday, i realize that is not a daytime solution - if anyone else has cabinet ideas please feel free, only do drop me a line please so i don't do unnecessary work - i welcome any ideas, suggestions, comments: - of course i would prefer if others built on what i have done, but - i know what is really important. - i did this because it needed to be done, - i really don't want another incident, however minor, to occur & catch us with our camera down. - it isn't over until the fat lady, after drinking her celebratory pint of Guinness & going outside for a smoke, - finds that the video camera downstairs catches her likeness, - clearly, as she leaves, - and records it.** be seeing you. ** *notes* ** *‡ means the actual exact details are in the confidential readme which i strongly encourage SRers read instead of this. * *and here: www DOT keygenguru.com SLASH sn SLASH apple_quicktime_7_4_1 DOT html **and then it isn't over; it just began.......

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