Meeting Summaries:
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA <---click here for full details!
DATE: Saturday 10 June 2000 TIME: 11:00am-3:30pm Pacific Time PLACE: LinuxCabal Headquarters (San Francisco) "HavenCo: Data Fortress on the Edge" --Live Conference from Sealand "Microsoft: Hercules vs Hydra" --Anti-Monopoly Discussion The June 2000 Physical Meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Cypherpunks will be held at the headquarters of the LinuxCabal and feature a discussion about HavenCo. The HavenCo group contends that it's not just 'neener-neenering the NSA' or playing at 'starting your own country:' it's doing serious eBusiness mixed with human privacy rights, and it's engaged in a philosophical, political and moral battle for individual freedom. The question is not whether HavenCo is a good idea or a model of future data freedom (it's both), but whether they can survive in an unfriendly environment full of many kinds of threats. Against the backdrop of the HavenCo drama, we'll also spend a few minutes raking Microsoft over the coals and discuss some topics of general interest.
Sean Hastings (CEO) & Jo Hastings (CMO) of HavenCo, on the HavenCo platform in Sealand in the English Channel, talking on their mobile phones with the attendees of 2000-06-10 Cypherpunks meeting. Technician Terran Melconian is adjusting a HavenCo sat-dish in the background.
TORONTO <---click here for full details!
DATE: Tuesday 13 June 2000 TIME: 7:30-10:00pm Eastern Time PLACE: Univ. of Toronto, Mechanical Engineering Building, Room MC 102 "Freedom.net" — Mike Shaver, ZKS "Computer Crime and the Criminal Code of Canada" — Arni Stinnissen, Ontario Provincial Police "Stuff" — David Akin, National Post of Canada "PGP Demo & Keysigning" — Robert Guerra, CryptoRights Foundation The June 2000 Physical Meeting of the Toronto Area Cypherpunks will be a Joint Meeting with the Toronto Linux User's Group, and will be held at Univ. of Toronto's Mechanical Engineering Building. The agenda (subject to change) will include: an "informal Q&A" with Zero Knowledge Systems' Chief Software Officer Mike Shaver; David Akin, a Toronto-based Senior Technology Reporter with the National Post of Canada speaking on mysterious topics; a session on "Computer Crime and the Criminal Code of Canada" with Arni Stinnissen, a detective from the Ontario Provincial Police, and a PGP demo and keysigning by Robert Guerra. We also hope to have a network linkup with the folks who hold the Cypherpunks meetings in Austin (Texas) — by July we hope to have them on the "Meetingpunks" website as well.As always, these are Open Meetings, and members of the Public are encouraged to attend.