SF Bay Area Cypherpunks (80th Chairborne Regiment)
General Info:
DATE: Saturday 11 December 1999
TIME: 1:00-5:00 PM (Pacific Time)
PLACE: San Francisco Law Enforcement Regional Training Center
(San Francisco Police Academy)
Room 102 (or follow signs)
December is the Last Meeting of the Century!
"Car 64 — Where are You?"
The December 1999 Physical Meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area
Cypherpunks will feature community-building discussions with senior
members of the SF Police Department Academy staff, including a short
presentation of the SFPD Academy's history, mission and future by
our host Lt. Lon Ramlan, discussions of the state of the SFPD's
computer crime facilities and technology with senior members of the
investigative staff and an opportunity to offer our thoughts on
computer crime, network security and privacy concerns to interested
and open-minded SFPD Academy leadership.
We'll also enjoy a short presentation by the Society of Former
Primes' director of disinformation, Bill Scannell on the Society's
recent action-adventure in Florida with members of a certain
quasi-religious "science" organization.
A mystery guest may appear to present an important and
controversial technical paper on building PKIs with "special"
security properties. We'll also have a roundtable session on Y2K.
Following the discussions, members of the Cypherpunks Shooting Club
and those meeting attendees who have signed up in advance (we still
have 3 slots open!) will participate in a (rare) public visit to the
Academy's FATS III interactive firearms training system. The FATS III
is used to train officers in high-stress situations to use their
weapons properly and safely.
As always, this is an Open Meeting on US Soil and members of the
Public are encouraged to attend.
Meeting Agenda: (all timings are approximate)
"Our agenda is a widely-held secret."
12:30-1:00 — Informal gathering, share food & beverages,
sign-up for FATS slots.
1:00-2:00 — General Meeting:
--RSA Conference Planning Session (all)
--Wireless Privacy: Bluetooth or Bluebeard? (all)
--Society of Former Primes: Adventure #1
w/ Bill Scannell
--PKI Technical Paper (tentative)
w/ Mystery Guest TBA
--Y2K Risks & Readiness Party (all)
2:00-3:00 — SFPD Academy Presentation
--w/ Lt. Lon Ramlan, SFPD and HTCIA
and faculty members of the SFPD Academy
3:00-5:00 — FATS III
Firearms Training System interactive demo
--w/ SFPD Academy Staff
5:00-? — Dinner at a nearby restaurant usually follows the
meeting.
Location Info:
Meeting Area:
The meeting will be held in the main building of the San Francisco
Law Enforcement Regional Training Center (aka the SF Police
Academy), which is an old San Francisco public school building in
the Diamond Heights district (which is just south of the Twin Peaks
high point in the center of SF, and) not far from the "top" of the
Market Street grade's intersection with Portola and Burnett.
There is _ample_ parking available: once you pull into the Academy's
driveway, just park between any two lines that bracket your car's
width and don't have yellow stripes across them. If you want to buy
or bring munchies for yourself and/or others, the Safeway shopping
center (which includes a cafe or two with decent coffee) is a few
yards from the southeast corner of the Academy's parking lot (down a
flight of stairs).
Enter the main door under the large "San Francisco Law Enforcement
Regional Training Center" sign. You do NOT need to show ID, leave
money/blood or otherwise be Matrixed to park or attend the meeting
(this is an open meeting at an educational institution).
Meeting Room:
The meeting will be in Room 102, which is on the left just inside.
It holds a normal-sized group, but if lots of people show up, we'll
put up signs directing you to a larger room or into the Auditorium.
If you want to present anything at the last minute, the agenda is
fairly open (even though we have a couple of speakers), so come
early (12:30) and arrange for the RGB laptop projector, the video
setup or a blackboard so that you can give a rump talk.
The FATS-3 sessions will be held upstairs in the second floor
FATS-III room, preceded by a short training session for those who
have signed up to operate the safety equipment and the
interactive/pneumatic handgun simulation equipment.
Location Maps:
SF Police Academy (annotated with red traces).
<http://freedomfighter.net/cypherpunks/maps/sfpd-acad.gif>
Door-to-door directions (to 350 Amber Drive San Francisco CA 94131)
can be obtained from Mapquest.
Directions:
1. From the South Peninsula via 280 North:
EXIT San Jose Ave
STAY on San Jose Ave
RIGHT on Rousseau Street
RIGHT on Bosworth at stop-sign
STAY on Bosworth
RIGHT on Elk Street
(GOTO "3. From the South Peninsula via 101 North")
2. From the East Bay via Bay Bridge to SF:
80 West
101 South
EXIT 280 South
(GOTO "3. From the South Peninsula via 101 North")
3. From the South Peninsula via 101 North:
EXIT 280 South (toward Daly City)
EXIT Monterey Blvd
RIGHT at Stop LIGHT
GET (immediately) into Left LANE
LEFT at flashing amber light onto Diamond Street
LEFT at stop sign on Bosworth
RIGHT at second stop sign on Elk
(GOTO "4. Final Directions")
4. Final Directions:
Elk becomes Diamond (curve to right: see graphic map)
GO uphill on Diamond (curve to left)
PASS Safeway shopping center (N.B.:likely scene of post-mtg dinner)
LEFT on Duncan Street at stop sign
LEFT on Amber Drive (next left)
IMMEDIATE LEFT into Academy driveway
PARK in parking lot...
Additional Meeting Notes:
Next month: January 2000 Cypherpunks Physical Meeting will be held on
the THIRD SATURDAY (15 January) to intersect the RSA Data Security
Conference (not on the usual second saturday date). Meeting details
and location will be discussed at the Dec meeting above and announced
thereafter. If you have an agenda item, please send it to the meeting
organizers, as the Jan meeting is often very large and the agenda fills
up early with all of our cypherpunk friends coming from around the
globe for RSADSC.
If you have questions, comment or agenda requests, please contact the
meeting organizers:
Dave Del Torto <ddt@cryptorights.org>
Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>