SF Bay Area Cypherpunks (80th Chairborne Regiment)
DATE: Saturday 13 October 2001
TIME: 1:00-6:00 PM (Pacific Time)
PLACE: Tressider Student Union Courtyard
Stanford University Campus
Palo Alto, California, USA
Agenda:
This Cypherpunks meeting will begin forming around 1:00 PM, and the structured
Agenda will begin at approximately 2:00 PM.
AGENDA:
"Our agenda is a widely-held secret."
As usual, this is an Open Meeting on US Soil, and everyone's invited
...even the Director of Homeland Defense.
1. Recent Cypherpunk News
Various Cypherpunks have been on the road recently, and will share important
news updates and colorful stories with us about their journeys.
CryptoRights Foundation representatives will also have some very good news about
CRF's recent progress.
2. Anti-Terrorism
This meeting will feature a discussion on the implications for our open society
of two major legislative proposals resulting from the recent crimes against
humanity in NY, DC and PA. The Mobilization Against Terrorism Act (MATA) and
it's follow-on, the Uniting and Strengthening America (USA) Act, are dramatic
new proposals creating major arguments in Congress. They include provisions
that:
In addition to MATA and USAA, the Administration has established a new (soon to be Cabinet) position heading the Office of Homeland Defense (OHD) for coordination of law enforcement and intelligence efforts, including centralization of databases storing information about US Citizens. These new initiatives have all been positioned and marketed to voters as making Americans safer from the scourge of global Terrorism, but we'll be asking the tough, skeptical questions:
We'll also discuss the amendments proposed by Russell Feingold (D-WI) to the USAA which:
In addition, our resident legal eagles will help us evaluate the Constitutionality of these measures, and we'll also include a discussion the Snake-Oil Protection Act (aka the DMCA), and the wisdom of letting people who do not design security systems write legislation affecting everyone's security. Background info: USAA <http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200110/100401a.html> MATA <http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2001/September/492ag.htm> OHD <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011008.html> DMCA <http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf> EFF Analysis by Lee Tien and Shari Steele: <http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/20010926_eff_wiretap_pr.html>
3. CRF Human Rights Security Policy Design Session #1 A good security policy is essential to good security in any organization and many organizations don't know where to start. CryptoRights is designing a comprehensive security policy template for our human rights NGO clients, and we need the active participation of the Cypherpunk Community. Please send and/or bring non-proprietary policy documents/doc fragments, FAQs, URLs, papers you've written or read, books you use and any other resources you can think of regarding security policy design. We'll spread it all out on the floor and begin brainstorming and creating the ultimate security policy document in the first session of many. This document will be a showplace for Cypherpunk core competency. CRF and its client NGOs and partners will be able to use it or portions of it to bootstrap the wide adoption of a variety of communications security tools, in order to establish their utility for the global society. To add to the overall complexity of such a project, we also have to contend with the new politics in the post-9/11 world. It's going to have to be an amazingly flexible and comprehensive document built from many different security professionals' experiences and contributions. Our many design challenges include:
Bring, laptops, pads of paper, whiteboard markers and your thinking caps! Submissions are welcome anytime, even after the meeting (we'll have more): Email to: <sec-policy@cryptorights.org> or Anonymous FTP uploads to: <ftp://cryptorights.org>. Please support and participate in this important community initiative!
Location:
The Stanford meeting location will be familiar to those who've been to our outdoor summer meetings before, but for those who haven't been, it's on the Stanford University campus (in Palo Alto, California), at the end of Santa Theresa, at the tables outside Tressider Union, just west of Dinkelspiel Auditorium. We meet at the tables on the West side of the building, inside the horseshoe "U" formed by the Tresidder building. Ask anyone on campus where "Tressider" or the "Student Union" is and they'll help you find it. Food and beverages are available at the cafe or minimarket inside Tresidder. If the weather turns unseasonably cold, we'll meet inside on the second floor on the couches (go up the outside spiral staircase and then inside). Location Maps: Tresidder Union (overview): http://www.stanford.edu/home/map/search_map.html?keyword=&ACADEMIC=Tresidder+Union Tressider Union (zoomed detail view): http://www.stanford.edu/home/map/stanford_zoom_map.html?234,312 Printable Stanford Map (407k). http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/campus_map.pdf GPS Coordinates: 37d23:40 N 122d04:49 W
Need Help?
If you get lost, or have questions, comments or last-minute agenda requests, please contact your friendly meeting organizers:
Dave Del Torto <ddt@cryptorights.org> Cell: +1.415.730.3583 Bill Stewart <bill@cryptorights.org> Cell: +1.415.307.7119
Heads-Up for November: the meeting will be indoors somewhere in San Francisco (location TBD) and two very special events are being planned: (1) We hope to have the much-awaited Second Part of Black Unicorn's presentation at the June meeting of his Analysis of Cocaine Smuggling. In light of recent events, the national security implications of his conclusions are more significant than ever. (2) Eric Blossom may present some very important CRF research and development work on a Software Defined Radio for evaluating the security of wireless devices. If you didn't see Eric's talk at HAL2001, you shouldn't miss this. Early running code will be demonstrated.