SF Bay Area Cypherpunks (80th Chairborne Regiment)

July 2000 Physical Meeting Announcement

General Info:

DATE:   Saturday 08 July 2000
TIME:   12:00-6:00 PM (Pacific Time)
PLACE:  Fort NOCS, 19925 Steves Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA 95014

Agenda
The organized program begins about 1:00.
After the meeting, there is usually dinner somewhere nearby.

HavenCo Update — Ryan Lackey


We'll have another HavenCo conference call, this time with 
their CTO Ryan Lackey, speaking to us from Sealand. Ryan will 
answer the more technical questions that weren't covered in June.
Please hand your written questions to Dave before the meeting 
officially begins.
This ~30-minute call is tentatively scheduled for 1:00-1:30pm 
(Pacific Time) so Ryan can get to his Beauty Sleep soon after.
Also see: 

PGP 7.0 Demo — Will Price

Will Price from PGP Security Inc will demo PGP 7.0.
Should be interesting!

Mojo Nation: A distributed data service — Jim McCoy

Autonomous Zone Industries will present the architecture and 
design of Mojo Nation, a decentralized, distributed data service 
with strong crypto/privacy features. Mojo Nation uses a novel 
resource allocation mechanism to create a secure information 
publishing, caching, and retrieval system with the ability to 
scale up for higher bandwidth content. AZI will also be signing 
up beta testers for Mojo Nation after the presentation. You may 
know of this as Bram's "Evil Geniuses For A Better Tomorrow."
In preparation for this session, be sure to ignore this page:
http://www.mojonation.com/, but do look at:

Also check out Publius: http://cs1.cs.nyu.edu/waldman/publius/

Napster — Social and Technical Hacking II — Bill Stewart


Lawsuits are such a boring and inappropriate way to 
change the behavior of the Internet. Doing new cool things 
is better, but working around the assumptions of new cool 
software (like Napster) can be fun too. Some of these approaches 
also work for Gnutella and Freenet.
Some links:
http://www.ebooknet.com/story.jsp?id=2536
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-2183852.html?tag=st.ne.1002.thed.ni
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2198482.html?tag=st.ne.1002.tgif.ni

Is the FBI Blocking "Freedom"? — general

Discussion of the alleged recent FBI attempt to smash "Freedom" 
(i.e. block traffic to/from Zero Knowledge Systems' Freedom.net 
service). Is this an actual technical glitch, or is it someone's 
idea of a joke at the FBI? We'll also discuss FBI's recent attempt 
to block the sale of Verio to the Japanese PTT, citing "National 
Security" concerns (i.e. they won't be able to wiretap US Citizens 
as easily). We'll follow with a spirited general discussion about 
how impressive the FBI can be when they really put in the effort.
Some news stories:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37425,00.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=wpni/print&articleid=A59371-2000Jul6

RSA Patent-Expiry Party Planning — general

Planning session for the big "Cypherpunk RSA Patent-Expiry Party"
to be held on or about 20 Sept 2000 (on Sat 23 Sept?).
Also, we're taking nominations for the Song List to be featured 
at the party. Here are a few so far:
  "So long, it's been good to know yuh" — Hal Abelson <hal@zurich.ai.mit.edu>
  "Evil Ways" (Santana) — <ddt@openpgp.net>
  "Old Man Kensey" (R.E.M./"Fables of the Reconstruction") — dmolnar <dmolnar@hcs.harvard.edu>
  "Won't Get Fooled Again" (The Who) — Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
  "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (Simson & Garfunkle ;-) — <ddt@openpgp.net>
  "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" — Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf@priori.net>
  "Take This Job and Shove It" — <ddt@openpgp.net>



As usual, this is an Open Meeting on US Soil, and everyone's invited,
even NAI Marketing Units.

Location
Thanks to Paul Holman of Fort NOCS for providing the facilities.
Fort NOCS is located at 19925 Stevens Creek Blvd,
near Stevens Creek and Blaney in Cupertino,
about 3km from the 280 & 85 intersection.
Map of 19925 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&YY=17435&addr=19925%20Stevens%20Creek%20Blvd&city=Cupertino&state=CA&slt=37.3232&sln=-122.0218&zip=95014-2305&mag=9&cs=9&newmag=7"


GPS About 37.3232 N 122.0218 W

Directions:
From 280:
EXIT at Wolfe Road
SOUTH on Wolfe Road.
RIGHT on Stevens Creek Blvd.
RIGHT turn into the Panasonic Parking lot.  
PARK in the back of the building.
ENTER the rear entrance.
We're in the "Large Conference Room".

From 101:
TAKE 85 South to Stevens Creek,
LEFT on Stevens Creek, then follow the above directions.

If you get lost, you can try Paul's cell phone +1.408.593.7581.
If you're with NAI Marketing and you're lost, click here.


If you have questions, comments or agenda requests, please contact the
meeting organizers:


    Bill Stewart bill.stewart@pobox.com  Cell +1-415-307-7119
    

    Dave Del Torto  ddt@cryptorights.org



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