DC612 – Monday, December 5th – 6pm @ the Wilde Roast

DC612 December Meeting – Evading Digital Surveillance
Subtitled: A Crypto for you a Crypto for me.

December 5th, 6pm-8pm @ Wilde Roast Cafe (65 SE Main St, Minneapolis, MN 55414)

In recent weeks, there has been a spike of interest around the issues of digital surveillance and what options exist to lead a more private life on the Internet.
Join DC612 for a series of short presentations on evasion technologies followed by a workshop in which you may try some of these techniques yourself.

Topics covered will include
– The use of Torbrowser for anonymous web browsing.
– The use of Tails Linux for privacy protection anywhere at any time
– The use of PGP and Protonmail for free encrypted email
– The use of OTR for free encrypted real-time communication
– Considerations for selecting a VPN/proxy service
– Considerations for creating and managing anonymizing online identities
– Considerations for making anonymous purchases online

If any of these topics interest you, please join us. If any of these topics interest your friends, please pass the word about this meeting.

Feel free to bring a laptop and additionally a flash drive if you wish to configure your own live TAILS OS with us.

DC612 – Thursday, November 10th – 6pm @ the Wilde Roast

Greetings, fellow humans!

Join us this Thursday, November 10th at 6PM at the Wilde Roast to eat, drink, and socialize (all within acceptable parameters).

This month, we will be entertained by Josh More as he shares his adventures in Nicaragua, photographing endangered hawksbill turtles using infrared flash:

I got the opportunity to travel to Nicaragua and take photos of critically endangered hawksbill turtles. The challenge is that if you take photos of them using regular flash, you disrupt the laying process and harm both the individual and the species. So I had to find a way to do infrared flash reliably… and I succeeded.

He will be bringing some of his gear along, and we will turn down the lights to experience the various flash settings hands-on.

As always, bring your appetites and help ensure that we keep getting invited back!

September… Again? Sure!

Hey all!

So, at our somewhat-regularly-scheduled meeting on September 6th we were approached by @transranea with an offer to speak about Faraday.  The only catch is, she will be leaving town before our October meeting!

So, never wanting to miss a cool talk, we decided to hold two – count ’em – two meetings this month!

The next meeting will be September 26th, at 6PM once again at the Wilde Roast in Minneapolis.  It definitely fit our needs last time, so we plan on being there for the foreseeable future – Our October meeting will still take place at the beginning of the month, and we plan to be at the Wilde Roast for that one as well.

See you all there!

DC612 – Tuesday, September 6th – 6pm @ the Wilde Roast

DC612 is back in September for a special First Tuesday of the Month edition!

We’re excited to be welcoming Jim Hall, founder and coordinator of the FreeDOS project!

Over twenty years ago, as Microsoft announced that it would end support for the MS-DOS operating system, James Hall announced to the world that he intended to create a public domain version of the OS in order to keep the universe of character-based DOS software alive. Hall’s “PD-DOS” project eventually became FreeDOS, which today supports an ecosystem of developers, retro gamers, and diehards who will give up their WordStar when you pry the floppies from their cold, dead fingers.

Read more at: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/dos-boot-ars-spends-a-day-working-in-freedos/

Expect a firsthand overview of the history of the project and a Q & A that can’t be missed!

See everyone at our new location!  Wilde Roast Cafe in NE Minneapolis!

-Kat

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