SF Bay Area Cypherpunks (80th Chairborne Regiment)

June 2001 Physical Meeting Announcement

General Info:

DATE:   Saturday 9 June 2001
TIME:   12-6 PM (Pacific Time)
LOCATION:  AT&T, 795 Folsom St. 3rd Floor, San Francisco

  (It's possible that the meeting will be moved
  to another nearby location; check your email for updates,
  and check the web page Saturday morning before the meeting
  just in case.)

AGENDA

  "Our agenda is a widely-held secret."

  As usual, this is an Open Meeting on US Soil, and everyone's invited.
  The meeting starts informally at Noon, with presentations starting at 1:00,
  and typically is followed by dinner with the meeting attendees.

PRESENTATIONS

Marilyn Davis   — presentation / review of
  the security layer in her eVote/Clerk software.

Black Unicorn — The black market for Cocaine in the United States, 
  the manner in which it has evolved over the last quarter century, and 
  the lessons cypherpunks might be able to learn about networks, 
  infastructures, security and black markets in general.  

Dave Del Torto — CryptoRights Update/June 2001
  HIGHFIRE: CRF's human rights firewall project, revision 1 in Guatemala.
  HIGHWIRE: CRF's HR wireless project introduction.
  New security challenges and trainings for Guatemalan HR groups.
  CRF's small role in this week's charges of Crimes Against Humanity 
   against Generalissimo Rios Montt by our client CALDH.
  HAL2001: are cypherpunks going or not? 
  

WORKSHOPS

Hugh Daniel — Linux-Ipsec Installation — FreeSWAN 1.9 is now doing
  Opportunistic Encryption, and ready for some serious usage,
  and ready to be installed on a reasonable variety of machines.
  So bring your PCs — laptops, desktops, etc., and we'll demonstrate
  how to install FreeSWAN and get it using opportunistic encryption
  as well as standard Virtual Private Networks.

AT&T Lab Tour — Bill Stewart's department test/demo lab has
  routers, PCs of various antiquitude, DSL internet connections, 
  and a CD burner if you need to copy the IPSEC software, etc.
  Nobody's killed Kenny the Disposable PC since I've installed
  RedHat 7.1 ...

DIRECTIONS

Location:

 AT&T's office at 795 Folsom Street is a shared building.
 The meeting is on the 3rd Floor, and the elevator and door require
 an access card, so we'll have someone running around letting folks in,
 and phone numbers posted at the guard desk for you to call us.

 Coffee will be provided, and there's a deli a block away on Folsom
 and various other restaurants nearby.

 If you get lost:
 Bill Stewart's cell phone is +1-415-307-7119
 Dave Del Torto's cellphone is +1.415.730.3583

Map:
  maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&addr=795+Folsom+St&csz=San+Francisco%2C+CA&country=us&Get%A0Map=Get+Map

Getting There:

 CalTrain — Trains run roughly hourly on Saturdays.
  The train schedule is posted at:
  http://caltrain.com/caltrain/index.html
  The train takes about an hour from Palo Alto.
  From the main Caltrain station at 4th and King, walk up 4th St about 10 minutes,
  and turn right on Folsom, and you'll be at 795 Folsom.

 BART — Powell station is near 4th St — walk down to Folsom, turn left, you're there.

 Driving — From the Penninsula — take 280 North, or 101 to 280 North,
  and get off at 6th st.  Take 6th to Folsom, turn right,
  and begin hunting for parking.  There are several overpriced lots,
  usually cheaper on weekends, plus 2-hour street parking.