DEFCON 201

.::SIGNAL BOOST — ATTEND EARN IT – ZOOM ONLINE CALL with Sex Workers, Lawyers, and Digital Security Experts — MARCH 25th::.

====================================================== Event Link Sign-Up (FREE): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earn-it-zoom-call-with-sex-workers-lawyers-and-digital-security-experts-tickets-100311388062

DATE & TIME: March 25th (Wednesday), 6:30 PM — 8:30 PM EDT =====================================================

Join us March 25th @ 6:30 PM EST for an informative call breaking down the “Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020” or the EARN IT Bill. Hacking//Hustling will be joined by sex workers, lawyers, and digital security experts to talk about the EARN IT Bill.

This bill is a clear extension, and expansion of SESTA/FOSTA; even more aggressively geared toward surveillance and government anti-encryption crackdowns.

We need education and concerted efforts to oppose and defeat the so-called “Earn It” Act of 2020, especially from fellow sex working/trading and hustling comrades already invested in ending state surveillance and its rampant whorephobic punishment policies.

The EARN IT Act was proposed from Senators Graham and Blumenthal, and drafted with help from Trump’s Justice Department. The act aims to address child sexual abuse online by threating to allow more lawsuits against websites over user-created content, unless they comply with new government speech guidelines. It would create a commission to set government control of online speech, and experts believe it is a thinly veiled attempt to mandate encryption backdoors. This means, in practice, ending encryption.

If you care about free speech, dissent and freedom of expression online, your fellow queer and trans sex workers of color, drug-using workers and harm reduction advocates, or political opponents of the current administration, you should care about smashing this proposed act. This act would create a massive new threat to anyone who could be a target of the DOJ, by letting their new cherry-picked committee certify whether websites are living up to new federal speech rules, ostensibly to protect children. But those rules could easily be used to limit speech about abortion, LGBTQAI peoples, harm reduction methods, criticism of law enforcement, and so on.

Government, and law enforcement in particular, love punishment policies in the name of saving women, young girls and children. These policies allow for carte blanche punishment if compliance is not met, meaning online and encrypted platforms will be compelled to relinquish user data and content in order to stay operational, and not face fines and jail time. Here are a few articles about the bill!

The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online :..>EFF EARN IT Act First Amendment Letter to SJC :..>Casey Newton — the Intercept

Privacy Note: This call will be recorded for future distribution. If you have a question before we end the recording for questions, please note that you will be included in the recording. Please note that your name is visible on zoom, so please call in from a number or name you are comfortable with being public. Feel free to make an anonymous account! We will save time at the end for questions for folks who are not comfortable with being recorded.

See you March 25th @ 6:30 PM EST!

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.::DEFCON 201 Meet Up — March 2020 — SECCOMP::.

====================================================== Date: March 20th, Friday

Time: 7:00 PM EST — ????

Meet-Up: https://www.meetup.com/DEFCON201/events/268908872/

Facebook [TOR]: https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/events/871272493335510/

Hackaday: TBA

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Welcome to the March 2020 DEFCON 201 Meet Up!

We had this amazing in person Three Year Anniversary meet up with free food, alcohol, raffle prizes, hardware installs and more. Then life realized we were having too much fun and released a plague around the world. While we are still committed to meeting in person, after our state passed some executive orders and a vote online, we have decided to create this special Virtualized meet up!

Join us on live stream, load up Shodan, put the hand lotion next to your laptop and get ready for this social distancing version of our meet up open to all!

Oh, and get ready next week for the PancakesCon Online Security Conference (http://pancakescon.com/)!

====================================================== Live Streams: ====================================================== Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/defcon201live

dLive: https://dlive.tv/defcon201

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYDQaOHbK5trRU2CDgb0qSg

Invidious [TOR]: http://axqzx4s6s54s32yentfqojs3x5i7faxza6xo3ehd4bzzsg2ii4fv2iid.onion/channel/UCYDQaOHbK5trRU2CDgb0qSg ======================================================

INTERACTIVE LINKS COMING SOON!

If you like to do a talk at our meet ups our collaborate with our staff and members in a project partnership shoot us a email at:

INFO {at} DEFCON201 [DOT] ORG

::AGENDA & SCHEDULE::. [ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN STANDARD (EST)] 7:00pm — 7:05pm DEFCON 201 Announcements & Code of Conduct — GI Jack, Sidepocket 7:05pm — 7:20pm The OpenCovid19 Initiative— Thomas Landrain 7:20pm — 7:35pm Pwnagotchi: An Epic Retelling Of Making Your Own Hardware Project— GI Jack 7:35pm — 8:00pm Browsing The Internet Privately & Securely — Sidepocket 8:00pm —????? Chat, Party & Open Workshops Projects

.::OPEN PROJECTS::.

Folding@Home VS Coronavirus (Team: 241960) — GI Jack

Nintendo Labo Build & Play — Sidepocket

Practicing Lockpicking & Locksport — Sidepocket & GI Jack + Others

.::LIGHTNING TALKS::.

DEFCON 201 Announcements & Code of Conduct :..>DEFCON 201 will start with various updates about our activities in early 2020, our post CoronaVirus Pandemic measures and an overview of the Code of Conduct linked on our website.

The OpenCovid19 Initiative :..>By now, we are all aware of the global ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 covering the front page of all newspapers. Whether you are reading this 5 meters away from another human being or at home in self-quarantine, you know it is a necessity to delay the propagation of the virus. All these measures are necessary to enable the health workers to do their job and not be overwhelmed . But, despite all measures governments have been taking around the world, the Health care system might not be able to treat all infected patients. And, even if it could, the absence of efficient treatments will lead to millions of deaths. The goal of the OpenCovid19 initiative as a program is to collectively develop open-source and low-cost tools and methodologies that are safe and easy to use to fight the Covid19 Pandemic. In this talk, we will talk to one of the lead bio-hackers who has created an open-platform for experts and hobbyist around the globe to help solve this pandemic.

:..>Bio: Thomas Landrain: Rebooting Science! ⚗️🛠🌍

Co-Founder and CEO at JOGL.

Co-Founder first French community lab “La Paillasse” Co-Founder “PILI”— Synthetic Biology startup using fermentation to produce ecological dyes for the industry.

Ambassador “iGEM Foundation” — World’s largest deep technology contest focusing on Synthetic Biology (>7000 participants every year).

Member “French National Digital Council” — Co-Piloting the working group on Ecology and Territories

Pwnagotchi: An Epic Retelling Of Making Your Own Hardware Project :..>Pwnagotchi is an A2C-based “AI” powered by bettercap and running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W that learns from its surrounding WiFi environment in order to maximize the crackable WPA key material it captures (either through passive sniffing or by performing deauthentication and association attacks). This material is collected on disk as PCAP files containing any form of handshake supported by hashcat, including full and half WPA handshakes as well as PMKIDs. Co-Founder of DEFCON 201 GI Jack built this for our future (with many postponed) conventions and gatherings. Learn how he sourced parts, the trials of soldering and programming, our first deployment at PAX East and what you can learn about taking on your own hardware project!

:.>Bio: Bio: GI Jack is one of the Co-Founders of DEFCON 201. He might have seen a Ninja that had built their own hacker variant of Arch Linux known as Ninja OS. You might be able to also find this ninja at: https://ninjaos.org/

Browsing The Internet Privately & Securely :..>When the World Wide Web was built by Tim Berners-Lee (with Al Gore’s Information Super Highway) the only thing w3m, Mosaic and AOL Explorer users had to worry about was getting bumped off the modem via a relative’s ill timed phone call and endless tabletop coasters that were AOL hard disks flooding your mailbox. However in this day and age, with web fingerprinting, index crawlers, DRM, and other intrusive technologies has made the internet a dangerous place to explore. Even worse, many companies intent on selling your data now market their not-so-private features their products offer, turning a fundamental human right into a snake-oil buzzword. In this talk, we will help you navigate the confusing world of Web Browser Privacy & Security aimed for everyone but ideally for beginners. Topics will include selecting the right browser, fortifying said browser to be more secure and privacy focused, privacy focused browsing resources and best internet safety & privacy practices. Topics will also offer a basic overview of web browsers for mobile phones, choosing a VPN and how to use TOR.” As a bonus, our speaker will show off a work-in-progress configuration of a “Red Team” RECON OSINT Firefox configuration that was originally going to be featured at PancakesCon!

:..>Bio: A Co-Founder of DEFCON 201, an open group for hacker workshop projects in North East New Jersey, Sidepocket is constantly wanting to help people to get better at whatever they want to do and learn. He also has a history with NYC 2600, Radio Statler at Hackers on Planet Earth, Phone Losers of America, Museum of Urban Reclaim Spaces and The Yes Men. Find out more about DEFCON 201 at: http://www.defcon201.org

.::OPEN PROJECTS::.

Practicing Lockpicking & Locksport :..>DEFCON 201 will have padlocks and professional practice tumblers provided by TOOOL to practice on. Fun and easy to learn for all ages and backgrounds with two expert instructors!

:..>What You’ll Need: If you want to join along with us, we recommend buying a Master Lock №3 at your local hardware store or online:

https://www.masterlock.com/personal-use/product/3D

Here are some lockpicking kits you can buy:

https://www.sparrowslockpicks.com/kick_start_p/s0.htm

https://www.southord.com/collections/lock-pick-sets/products/lock-pick-set-5-piece-pxs-05l

You can also create your own picks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNAhnFAO7Tc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttHclcJZex4

Folding@Home VS Coronavirus :..>Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, including the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases. Currently F@h is simulating the dynamics of COVID-19 proteins to hunt for new therapeutic opportunities. We want to contribute and you can help!

Join the DEFCON 201 Folding@Home Team: 241960

:..>What You’ll Need: Download and run Folding@home for Windows/Mac/Linux, ideally on your highest performance system with a GPU and join our F@h Team 241960: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

Nintendo Labo Build & Play :..>We have a new cardboard engineering constructions for anyone of any skill level to try out. Combine DIY fun with simple, foldable cardboard construction, plus a new programming tool you can use to make your own quick play interactive games and experiences! When finished, we will explore our newfound creation from playing music, flying a plane or fishing in the ocean depths!

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===An Update On Future DEFCON 201 Meet-Ups and Coronavirus COVID-19===

Greetings Dirty Jersey Hackers!

If you have been living under a rock (looking at you Tom’s River) you have been assaulted with reports of the COVID-19 pandemic known commonly as the “Coronavirus” that has been sweeping the United States and the globe. Many public activities, including many hacker conventions and gatherings, are being canceled left and right as the infection rate rises and more people succumb to the disease.

This is no laughing matter, this is not a drill and our hearts and minds go out to those who are affected by this plague.

So…where does that leave DEFCON 201?

We thought about it long and hard and here is the simple answer:

Starting March 11th, unless something directly happens to our amazing venue at Sub Culture and/or Jersey City goes on complete lock-down/martial law…

WE ARE NOT CANCELING DEFCON 201 MEET-UPS & EVENTS!

DEFCON 201 will STILL meet up 3rd Friday of every month at Sub Culture located at 260 Newark Ave, Jersey City NJ from 7pm to 10pm unless something changes.

We feel that in a time of pandemic that we should stand together, including understand if people are unable to make it due to fear and/or sick and have to stay home, and being their for one another no matter the situation. (Similar to our cousins at NYC 2600!)

If something does change were we have to delay or cancel an event, similar to the July 2019 heatwave, we will let you know ASAP on our website, blog and social media. Growing up in the nuclear wasteland known as New Jersey we are use to the idea of killer plagues such as SARS, H1N1, Toxic Water and Trenton.

HOWEVER…

Just because the show is going on that does not mean we are going to continue on the same methods and procedures.

We will be educating people on the Coronavirus and following CDC and Jersey City guidelines to protect our attendees and provide a safer meeting environment.

These steps include:

— Educational material presented in person and in handout form on the CDC recommended hygienic methods to avoid contracting Coronavirus, how to identify it and resources on what you can do if you sadly are infected by it.

— Combat and dispel rumors and bad advice about Coronavirus to prevent our attendees and members from being exploited via health, financially, ethically or electronically.

— In addition to the high standards of cleaning our venue Sub Culture already ascribe to, we will disinfect all tables and seats at Sub Culture prior to members showing up and all equipment to be used during presentations and workshops by attendees.

— We will provide hand sanitizer, hygienic wipes and other preventive materials that we can afford for FREE while supplies last.

— Recommend that all attendees, members and staff maintain a minimum of 3 feet away from each other standing distance if possible.

— We will ask attendees to enter their email into a secure, encrypted text-file that is cold storage locally that contains their handle and email. We do not request any other information. Your information that you enter will be kept private with us, will only be used for attendance record purposes and NOT shared by us to any non-CDC affiliated individuals and third parties. This is not only to in case of an outbreak to inform everyone if an infection breaks out but also to comply with Jersey City’s order on private gatherings larger than 25 persons as seen here: https://t.co/MtmEH1fQGi?amp=1

— Finally, starting in April 2020 when applicable for those who are unable or are too worried to attend, we will start streaming talks and activities (never the crowd) with permission at all future events!

If you want to work with Biohackers to develop an open source methodology to safely test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 using common tools contribute to this project:

https://app.jogl.io/project/118

Please refer to these links to these online resources about Coronavirus safety:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

https://jcnj.org/cms/one.aspx?pageId=16490629

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public

https://infodemic.blog/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl2nA_xuHjY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTYfke545vI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05wyH1-mLGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCucUd5KeJo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c09m5f7Gnic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEFFZ7uZoFM

Stay tuned and stay safe!

— Sidepocket (Co-Founder of DEFCON 201)

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.::DEFCON 201 Meet Up — February 2020 — Hackers Lonely Hearts Club::.

====================================================== Date: January 17th, Friday

Time: 7:00 PM — 10:00 PM

Location: Sub Culture (260 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ)

Meet-Up: https://www.meetup.com/DEFCON201/events/268038318/

Facebook [TOR]: https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/events/1446268968865841/

Hackaday: TBA

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Welcome to the February 2020 DEFCON 201 Meet Up!

We just got done Shmoozing around and now it has come to this. For some, this is where you load up that dating sim and pour a glass of wine (or run it in wine), to others it’s where you spend a ton of money that you don’t have on that special someone. For us, it’s another meeting. Come down to cure your blue balls/ovaries where we will dig into Software Defined Radio, build some hardware projects and plan for an eventful PAX East in Boston.

About Our Venue:

We welcome you to Sub Culture at 260 Newark Ave in Jersey City. Five blocks from the Grove Street Path station and right on the NJ Transit Bus Stop; enjoy Free-Wifi, affordable (meat and vegan) food, power strips, video games on Raspberry Pi and sweet times! More information at https://www.subculturejc.com

If you like to do a talk at our meet ups our collaborate with our staff and members in a project partnership shoot us a email at:

INFO {at} DEFCON201 [DOT] ORG

.::AGENDA & SCHEDULE::. 7:00pm — 7:45pm Meet & Greet 7:45pm — 7:50pm DEFCON 201 Annoucements & Code of Conduct — GI Jack, Sidepocket 7:50pm — 8:00pm Why Pick Up “Artists” Are A Scam; A Social Engineer’s Perspective — Sidepocket 8:00pm — 8:45pm An Introduction to Iot Pentetration Testing — Libertyunix 8:45pm — 9:55pm Open Workshops Projects 9:55pm — 10:00pm END OF OFFICIAL MEET UP

.::OPEN PROJECTS::.

Lockpicking & Locksport — Sidepocket

Pwnagotchi & Wall Of Sheep — GI Jack

Pi-Hole Installation — Sidepocket

.::LIGHTNING TALKS::.

DEFCON 201 Annoucements & Code of Conduct :..>DEFCON 201 will start with various updates about our activities in early 2020 and an overview of the Code of Conduct linked on our website.

:.> Bio: GI Jack is one of the Co-Founders of DEFCON 201. He might have seen a Ninja that had built their own hacker variant of Arch Linux known as Ninja OS. You might be able to also find this ninja at: https://ninjaos.org/

Why Pick Up “Artists” Are A Scam: A Social Engineer’s Perspective :..>Like how Scientology has no actual Science or Scientific Method in it, Pick Up “Artistry” projects itself to be Social Engineering backed by Evolutionary Psychology…but it’s not. The crazy part is, there is some social engineering involved but NOT in the way you would think. In this talk, our speaker with disect various Pick Up Artist techniques including popular PUA online portals at the books “The Game” by Neil Strauss and “The Mystery Method” from PUA “master” Erik Von Markovik aka Mystery. This will demonstrate why these techinques do not work, the pyschological damage they cause, the bizzaro culture around this study and who it’s actually designed to social engineer. This talk will be prefaced by a TRIGGER WARNING as topics such as sexual harassment and stalking will be touched upon.

:..>Bio: A Co-Founder of DEFCON 201, an open group for hacker workshop projects in North East New Jersey, Sidepocket is constantly wanting to help people to get better at whatever they want to do and learn. He also has a history with NYC 2600, Radio Statler at Hackers on Planet Earth, Phone Losers of America, Museum of Urban Reclaim Spaces and The Yes Men. Find out more about DEFCON 201 at: http://www.defcon201.org

An Introduction to IoT Penetration Testing :..>IoT devices are one of the biggest challenges for security professionals now and will continue to be in the future. The security of these devices is critical as more of these insecure devices come to market. As security professionals we need to have an idea how these devices effect our organization. In this talk we will explore the basic principles of IoT PenTesting, how to build an effective toolset, reverse engineering, and analyzing wireless signals with software defined radio.

:.>Bio: With 10+ years’ experience in Information Technology, Libertyunix has held positions in the field such as Red Team Analyst, Security Systems Specialist, and Red Team Penetration Tester. Libertyunix has extensive experience in offensive security techniques and defensive strategies. He is currently a professor at Drexel University researching cyber and information security. His research has explored topics such as digital forensics, red team penetration testing, deep learning, IoT, and software defined radio. His graduate research thesis demonstrated the effects physical security systems can play in penetration testing and security assessments. Outside of the zeros and ones Libertyunix is the coach of the USA Roller Sports Women’s Inline Hockey team winning the last 3 world championships.

.::OPEN PROJECTS::.

Practicing Lockpicking & Locksport :..>DEFCON 201 will have padlocks and professional practice tumblers provided by TOOOL to practice on. Fun and easy to learn for all ages and backgrounds with two expert instructors!

PWNagotchi & Wall Of Sheep :..>Pwnagotchi is an A2C-based “AI” powered by bettercap and running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W that learns from its surrounding WiFi environment in order to maximize the crackable WPA key material it captures (either through passive sniffing or by performing deauthentication and association attacks). This material is collected on disk as PCAP files containing any form of handshake supported by hashcat, including full and half WPA handshakes as well as PMKIDs. We will be creating our own DEFCON 201 variant that will be part of a bigger project and need all hands on tech for its birth!

Also, we are working on a secret project invloving building a Wall of Sheep. Want to help or know what it is? Ask!

:..>What To Bring: A background in Javascript and Rasberry Pi 3 experience. If you can, bring your laptop with a GitHub account so we can collaborate. If anyone has a 3D Printer, PLEASE BRING IT! We will get you free food and booze!

Pi-Hole Installation :..>Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole (and optionally a DHCP server), intended for use on a private network. Pi-hole has the ability to block traditional website advertisements as well as advertisements in unconventional places, such as smart TVs and mobile operating system advertisements. We are going to install a Rasberry Pi running Pi-hole to the wireless network router at Sub Culture in a first of many hardenings to the venue’s cybersecurity.

:..>What To Bring: A background in either Rasberry Pi (such as NOOBS/Raspbian OS installation) and/or physical network cabling will be helpful but not required. Network configuriation and routing hacking will also be a plus.

DEFCON 201 VIDEO FILMING :..>DEFCON 201 will expand into video media in late September. We will be launching various videos including an Introduction, Member Spotlights, Archived Lightning Talks, Tutorials, Directions and more on the DTube, Vimeo and YouTube Mirror platforms. We will also have downloadable copies on the DEFCON 201 NextCloud of select media for DEFCON 201 Members who want hard copies of videos. If you want to be in the Introduction, Member Spotlights or Archive Lighting Talks you can inquire into us about signing our DEFCON 201 Consent Forums and we will walk you through the process. Those who have not signed our DEFCON 201 Consent Forums during meetings will NOT be recorded in Video or Audio as per our policy. Furthermore, any instances of media recording photo/video/audio via DEFCON 201 Staff will be alerted to all president attendees beforehand prior to recording.

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.::DEFCON 201 Meet Up — January 2020 — Winter & Construction::.

====================================================== Date: January 17th, Friday

Time: 7:00 PM — 10:00 PM

Location: Sub Culture (260 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ)

Meet-Up: https://www.meetup.com/DEFCON201/events/267734727/

Facebook [TOR]: TBA

Hackaday: TBA

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Welcome to the January 2020 DEFCON 201 Meet Up!

It’s a new year and everyone wants it to be over already. But not yet we say! The year of our hack 2020 will be a huge year for us as months of planning for various meeting activities, speakers, small scale events and convention road trips will kick off. Join us to reunite with old friends and make new ones as we learn about Antivirus Evasion techniques, begin advance lockpicking knowlage and begin with HUGE ANNOUCEMENTS of DEFCON 201 activities that will start in February that you will only hear first in person at this meet up!

About Our Venue:

We welcome you to Sub Culture at 260 Newark Ave in Jersey City. Five blocks from the Grove Street Path station and right on the NJ Transit Bus Stop; enjoy Free-Wifi, affordable (meat and vegan) food, power strips, video games on Raspberry Pi and sweet times! More information at https://www.subculturejc.com

If you like to do a talk at our meet ups our collaborate with our staff and members in a project partnership shoot us a email at:

INFO {at} DEFCON201 [DOT] ORG

.::AGENDA & SCHEDULE::. 7:00pm - 7:20pm  Meet & Greet 7:20pm - 7:50pm  An Introduction to Antivirus Evasion - Black Cipher 7:50pm - 8:00pm  DEFCON 201 Annoucements & Code of Conduct - GI Jack 8:00pm - 8:10pm  Wards, Decoders and Disk Detainers OH MY! - Sidepocket 8:10pm - 9:55pm  Open Workshops Projects 9:55pm - 10:00pm  END OF OFFICIAL MEET UP

.::OPEN PROJECTS::.

Practice Lockpicking & Locksport — Sidepocket & GI Jack

Nintendo Labo VR Blaster Build & Play — Sidepocket

.::LIGHTNING TALKS::.

An Introduction to Antivirus Evasion :..>This presentation will provide an introduction to the concept of antivirus evasion techniques. It will cover the Who and Why of Antivirus Evasion, common Antivirus Evasion techniques such as obfuscation, abuse of whitelisted apps, packers, ect. This will conclude with a few demos wshowing AV evasion in action.

:..>Bio: Black Cipher (Kai Pfiester) is the founder and chief security architect at Black Cipher Security, a local cybersecurity and DFIR consulting firm based in Cherry Hill, NJ. His primary skills are in offensive security an incident response.

In the local community he is the chapter lead for TOOOL Philly and the Philly Security Shell. As a speaker he has spoken on cybersecurity panels for major organizations such as the Philly Bar Association, the Philly Bar Institute, Fox Rothschild, Reger Rizzo and Eckert Seamans law firms. As an author, he has written articles on cybersecurity for the NJ Law Journal, bankrate.com. NJ Business and Industry Association as well as various Bar Associations in NJ on the country level.

DEFCON 201 Updates & Code of Conduct :..>DEFCON 201 will start with various updates about our activities in early 2020 and an overview of the Code of Conduct linked on our website.

:.> Bio: GI Jack is one of the Co-Founders of DEFCON 201. He might have seen a Ninja that had built their own hacker variant of Arch Linux known as Ninja OS. You might be able to also find this ninja at: https://ninjaos.org/

Wards, Decoders and Disk Detainers OH MY! :..>What started in 2019 as a simple basic pin & tumbler locksport training kit for a few people has grown into an extensive locksport mobile classroom in 2020. In this quick overview, we will go over new additional tools and techniques in our kit which includes: combination wheel decoding, Warded locks, Wafer systems and Disk Detainer mechanics. The materials persented in this lession our attendees can practiceduring the Open Workshop & Projects section of the meeting.

:.>Bio: A Co-Founder of DEFCON 201, an open group for hacker workshop projects in North East New Jersey, Sidepocket is constantly wanting to help people to get better at whatever they want to do and learn. He also has a history with NYC 2600, Radio Statler at Hackers on Planet Earth, Phone Losers of America, Museum of Urban Reclaim Spaces and The Yes Men. Find out more about DEFCON 201 at: http://www.defcon201.org

.::OPEN PROJECTS::.

Practicing Lockpicking & Locksport :..>DEFCON 201 will have padlocks and professional practice tumblers provided by TOOOL to practice on. Fun and easy to learn for all ages and backgrounds with two expert instructors!

Nintendo VR Blaster Build & Play :..>We have a new cardboard engineering construction for anyone of any skill level to try out. Combine DIY fun with simple, shareable VR, plus a new programming tool you can use to make your own quick play VR games and experiences! When finished, we will take turns blasting through an alien invasion, test your skills at competitive hippo feeding, and go wherever else our imagination takes us!

:..>What To Bring: The ability to follow instructions and fold paper. The play portion needs two working eyes with depth perception and a resistance to motion sickness.

DEFCON 201 VIDEO FILMING :..>DEFCON 201 will expand into video media in late September. We will be launching various videos including an Introduction, Member Spotlights, Archived Lightning Talks, Tutorials, Directions and more on the DTube, Vimeo and YouTube Mirror platforms. We will also have downloadable copies on the DEFCON 201 NextCloud of select media for DEFCON 201 Members who want hard copies of videos. If you want to be in the Introduction, Member Spotlights or Archive Lighting Talks you can inquire into us about signing our DEFCON 201 Consent Forums and we will walk you through the process. Those who have not signed our DEFCON 201 Consent Forums during meetings will NOT be recorded in Video or Audio as per our policy. Furthermore, any instances of media recording photo/video/audio via DEFCON 201 Staff will be alerted to all president attendees beforehand prior to recording.

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.::DEFCON 201 Meet Up — December 2019 — HoHoCon Part Deux::.

====================================================== Date: December 20th, Friday

Time: 7:00 PM — 10:00 PM

Location: Sub Culture (260 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ)

Meet-Up: https://www.meetup.com/DEFCON201/events/266748426/

Facebook [TOR]: TBA

Hackaday: TBA

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“WE KAN'T BE ST0PPED!$#%!!”

Welcome to the December 2019 DEFCON 201 Meet Up!

’Tis the season for hacking and whether you are lighting up a micro-controller menorah, turning your Xmas tree into a giant Wi-Fi war-dialing antenna or remembering your ancestors by creating Wikipedia entries for them, we invite your to our final meeting of 2019 to close out the year. This will be one of our most packed meeting yet from our last Online CTF, a rant about EVERYTHING in InfoSec, present swap, Mr. Robot screening and a moment of silence for those we had lost in the recent tragic events of Jersey City.

About Our Venue:

We welcome you to Sub Culture at 260 Newark Ave in Jersey City. Five blocks from the Grove Street Path station and right on the NJ Transit Bus Stop; enjoy Free-Wifi, affordable (meat and vegan) food, power strips, video games on Raspberry Pi and sweet times! More information at https://www.subculturejc.com

If you like to do a talk at our meet ups our collaborate with our staff and members in a project partnership shoot us a email at:

INFO {at} DEFCON201 [DOT] ORG

.::AGENDA & SCHEDULE::. 7:00pm — 7:55pm Open Workshops Projects & Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode Screening 7:55pm — 8:00pm A Sneak Peak Of DEFCON 201 in 2020 — Sidepocket, GI Jack 8:00pm — 8:10pm Secret Hacker Santa Swap 8:10pm — 9:55pm The Hacker Rant To End All Hacker Rants — NCommander 9:55pm — 10:00pm END OF OFFICIAL MEET UP

.::OPEN PROJECTS::.

Practice Lockpicking & Locksport — Sidepocket

justCTF Practice Online Challenge — GI Jack

Nintendo Labo VR Blaster Build & Play — Sidepocket

.::LIGHTNING TALKS::.

A Sneak Peak Of DEFCON 201 In 2020 :..>If you thought the last two years of DEFCON 201 was nuts, you have not seen ANYTHING about what we have planned for next year in 2020. From online war games, crashing conventions, Pi-Holes & Pwnagotchis, art galleries, civic programs, our first official attending of DEF CON 28 and a tons more! Join our Co-Founders at a sneak peak into our bright feature and how the Dirty Jersey smell is about to embark it’s foul hacker stank nationwide!

:.> Bio: A Co-Founder of DEFCON 201, an open group for hacker workshop projects in North East New Jersey, Sidepocket is constantly wanting to help people to get better at whatever they want to do and learn. He also has a history with NYC 2600, Radio Statler at Hackers on Planet Earth, Phone Losers of America, Museum of Urban Reclaim Spaces and The Yes Men. Find out more about DEFCON 201 at: http://www.defcon201.org

GI Jack is one of the Co-Founders of DEFCON 201. He might have seen a Ninja that had built their own hacker variant of Arch Linux known as Ninja OS. You might be able to also find this ninja at: https://ninjaos.org/

The Hacker Rant To End All Hacker Rants :..>2019 seems to have been a pretty good year for hacking, right? Well, not for this hacker! In this talk, we have given nearly two hours for our long time recurring speaker to rant about so many technology, community and Information Security topics that would take a novel to list. Plus, at one point we are going to turn the cameras off and he will go even FURTHER into madness about topics too hot for public (re)broadcast. This rant will be so long and so foul that it will end and only end when Sub Culture shuts the place down and our meeting ends! We even have the giant novelty hook ready if that does not convince him to step off the soap box…

:..>Bio: NCommander (@fossfirefighter) lives in New York and is a contributor to multiple free and open-source software projects, an Ubuntu core developer, and an active developer for the Hermes Center for Transparency working on the GlobaLeaks project. In his free time, he likes to travel, write, and play with radios.

.::OPEN PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES::.

Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode Screening :..>Since we are getting into the holiday hacker spirit, why not celebrate it by watching one of the XMas themed Mr. Robot Season 4 Episodes that take place around Christman day in universe? Details on said episode coming soon. ATTENTION: Mr. Robot is a very graphic, language intense show dealing with disturbing adult themes, viewer discretion is advised!

Practicing Lockpicking & Locksport :..>DEFCON 201 will have padlocks and professional practice tumblers provided by TOOOL to practice on. Fun and easy to learn for all ages and backgrounds with two expert instructors!

justCTF Practice Online Challenge :..>This Friday, starting on December 20th at 4:00 PM EST, we invite all DEFCON 201 Members, Attendees and Fans to help us hack the justCTF 2019! We will continue our online hacks in person during our meeting. If you are new to Online CTF, we will help you get set up and walk you thorugh some of the challenges. Then you can log in anytime after to September 22nd 4:00 AM EST to continue our CTF conquest! To learn more about the CTF, please follow this link: https://www.meetup.com/DEFCON201/events/267050714/

:..>What To Bring: Any laptop will do. Ideally you want to load it full of Information Security Red Team and Blue Team tools, look for Kali Linux, Parrot OS, Pentoo or Black Arch for ideas. To participate afterwards online, you will need a Discord Account and to join our Discord at this link: https://discord.gg/PGgPNEF

Secret Hacker Santa Swap :..>Bring out your inexpensive (but useful) hacker gifts for our first evenr Secret Hacker Santa Swap! It’s like a White (Hat) Elephant or Yankie Swap…but with 1337 Haxxors!

We will be collecting gifts (details below) as members come in and donate their gift until we begin the swap. These will be kept in a safe, secure location.

Participants will then draw numbers from a hat to determine their swap order from one up to the total number of participants.

Each person gets a crack at choosing a gift. The person who picks the first gift opens it and shows it to the rest of the company. Then the number two participant picks a gift and chooses to either unwrap it or swap it for an unwrapped gift. If the gift is swapped, the person who had their gift taken from them gets to unwrap the chosen gift and the turn passes.

:..>What To Bring: Any gift that is a monitary value USD price of $15 or less. Home crafted gifts are all acceptable. You can submit anything but try to keep it hacker theme (something useful for example USB sticks, old PC hardware, device chargers, gift cards), let your imagination run wild!

Nintendo VR Blaster Build & Play :..>We have a new cardboard engineering construction for anyone of any skill level to try out. Combine DIY fun with simple, shareable VR, plus a new programming tool you can use to make your own quick play VR games and experiences! When finished, we will take turns blasting through an alien invasion, test your skills at competitive hippo feeding, and go wherever else our imagination takes us!

:..>What To Bring: The ability to follow instructions and fold paper. The play portion needs two working eyes with depth perception and a resistance to motion sickness.

DEFCON 201 VIDEO FILMING :..>DEFCON 201 will expand into video media in late September. We will be launching various videos including an Introduction, Member Spotlights, Archived Lightning Talks, Tutorials, Directions and more on the DTube, Vimeo and YouTube Mirror platforms. We will also have downloadable copies on the DEFCON 201 NextCloud of select media for DEFCON 201 Members who want hard copies of videos. If you want to be in the Introduction, Member Spotlights or Archive Lighting Talks you can inquire into us about signing our DEFCON 201 Consent Forums and we will walk you through the process. Those who have not signed our DEFCON 201 Consent Forums during meetings will NOT be recorded in Video or Audio as per our policy. Furthermore, any instances of media recording photo/video/audio via DEFCON 201 Staff will be alerted to all president attendees beforehand prior to recording.

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.::UPDATE: DECEMBER CAFFEINE & CODE DELAYED UNTIL JANUARY::.

ATTENTION DEFCON 201 ATTENDEES!

Our Last Caffeine & Code on December 11th WILL NOT TAKE PLACE due to scheduling, weather issue and an active shooting.

This event will be rescheduled for January.

More details will be announced on December 29th.

See you all at our DEFCON 201 Meet Up on December 20th!

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.::DEFCON 201 Meet Up — November 2019 — No NAT November::.

====================================================== Date: November 15th, Friday

Time: 7:00 PM — 10:00 PM

Location: Sub Culture (260 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ)

Meet-Up: https://www.meetup.com/DEFCON201/events/265803586/

Facebook [TOR]: TBA

Hackaday: TBA

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Welcome to the November2019 DEFCON 201 Meet Up!

It’s officially colder than a cold-storage cryptocurrency wallet and the season of eating too much food and spending money you don’t have begins! We had to move some activities around for the month of November but we are excited on what we will have to offer. From PWNagachis to Web Browser Security we will have a fun afternoon of learning while prepping for gobbling down too much food with the nomalicous offerings at SubCulture’s menu!

About Our Venue:

We welcome you to Sub Culture at 260 Newark Ave in Jersey City. Five blocks from the Grove Street Path station and right on the NJ Transit Bus Stop; enjoy Free-Wifi, affordable (meat and vegan) food, power strips, video games on Raspberry Pi and sweet times! More information at https://www.subculturejc.com

If you like to do a talk at our meet ups our collaborate with our staff and members in a project partnership shoot us a email at:

INFO {at} DEFCON201 [DOT] ORG

.::AGENDA & SCHEDULE::.

7:00pm — 7:55pm Meet & Greet 7:55pm — 8:00pm DEFCON 201 News, Updates & Announcements — GI Jack 8:00pm — 8:30pm Browsing The Internet Privately & Securely — Sidepocket 8:30pm — 8:35pm Windows When You Need ’em, Walls When You Don’t— sirocyl 8:40pm — 9:55pm Open Workshops Projects 9:55pm — 10:00pm END OF OFFICIAL MEET UP

.::OPEN PROJECTS::.

Practice Lockpicking & Locksport — Sidepocket

Pwnagotchi — GI Jack

Nintendo Labo VR Blaster Build & Play — Sidepocket

MAGFest Live Boot Testing — sirocyl

.::LIGHTNING TALKS::.

DEFCON 201 News, Updates & Announcements :..>The Co-Founders and some of it’s active attendees have been working on many awesome things. Here are some of them for the end of this year, 2019 and beyond!

:.> Bio: GI Jack is one of the Co-Founders of DEFCON 201. He might have seen a Ninja that had built their own hacker variant of Arch Linux known as Ninja OS. You might be able to also find this ninja at: https://ninjaos.org/

Browsing The Internet Privately & Securely :..>When the World Wide Web was built by Tim Berners-Lee (with Al Gore’s Information Super Highway) the only thing w3m, Mosaic and AOL Explorer users had to worry about was getting bumped off the modem via a relative’s ill timed phone call and endless tabletop coasters that were AOL hard disks flooding your mailbox. However in this day and age, with web fingerprinting, index crawlers, DRM, and other intrusive technologies has made the internet a dangerous place to explore. Even worse, many companies intent on selling your data now market their not-so-private features their products offer, turning a fundamental human right into a snake-oil buzzword. In this talk, we will help you navigate the confusing world of Web Browser Privacy & Security aimed for everyone but ideally for beginners. Topics will include selecting the right browser, fortifying said browser to be more secure and privacy focused, privacy focused browsing resources and best internet safety & privacy practices. Topics will also offer a basic overview of web browsers for mobile phones, choosing a VPN and how to use TOR.”

:..>Bio: A Co-Founder of DEFCON 201, an open group for hacker workshop projects in North East New Jersey, Sidepocket is constantly wanting to help people to get better at whatever they want to do and learn. He also has a history with NYC 2600, Radio Statler at Hackers on Planet Earth, Phone Losers of America, Museum of Urban Reclaim Spaces and The Yes Men. Find out more about DEFCON 201 at: http://www.defcon201.org

Windows When You Need ’em, Walls When You Don’t :..>At MAGFest this year, sirocyl will be doing a workshop on a program called FamiTracker which is Windows-only, doesn’t work in WINE or ReactOS and will need to run on people’s own laptops; including those running Linux or something else. This all in a set up of 5 minutes. Oh, and security is a must! The unique challenge has a couple of unique solutions…and running Windows off a stick is definitely one of them. Crazy? Maybe. We’ll let you be the judge and fly with us over this cuckoo’s nest of single-purpose PC fleet operations! This will lead into the MAGFest Live-Boot Testing workshop.

:.>Bio: sirocyl — is a DEFCON 201 alumni and is the founder of the famitracker.org FamiTracker and Famicom/NES music community.

.::OPEN PROJECTS::.

Practicing Lockpicking & Locksport :..>DEFCON 201 will have padlocks and professional practice tumblers provided by TOOOL to practice on. Fun and easy to learn for all ages and backgrounds with two expert instructors!

PWNagotchi :..>Pwnagotchi is an A2C-based “AI” powered by bettercap and running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W that learns from its surrounding WiFi environment in order to maximize the crackable WPA key material it captures (either through passive sniffing or by performing deauthentication and association attacks). This material is collected on disk as PCAP files containing any form of handshake supported by hashcat, including full and half WPA handshakes as well as PMKIDs. We will be creating our own DEFCON 201 variant that will be part of a bigger project and need all hands on tech for its birth!

:..>What To Bring: A background in Javascript and Rasberry Pi 3 experience. If you can, bring your laptop with a GitHub account so we can collaborate. If anyone has a 3D Printer, PLEASE BRING IT! We will get you free food and booze!

MAGFEST Live-Boot Testing :..>After sirocyl’s talk, he will test the MAGFest set up by trying to Live Boot Windows off of various laptops from different hardware manufactures installed with various operating systems.

:..>What To Bring: Any laptop that works and can boot from USB. Preferably a laptop with an existing version of Windows running on it. If you do not have a laptop, we will have a few to loan out while supplies last.

Nintendo VR Blaster Build & Play :..>We have a new cardboard engineering construction for anyone of any skill level to try out. Combine DIY fun with simple, shareable VR, plus a new programming tool you can use to make your own quick play VR games and experiences! When finished, we will take turns blasting through an alien invasion, test your skills at competitive hippo feeding, and go wherever else our imagination takes us!

:..>What To Bring: The ability to follow instructions and fold paper. The play portion needs two working eyes with depth perception and a resistance to motion sickness.

DEFCON 201 VIDEO FILMING :..>DEFCON 201 will expand into video media in late September. We will be launching various videos including an Introduction, Member Spotlights, Archived Lightning Talks, Tutorials, Directions and more on the DTube, Vimeo and YouTube Mirror platforms. We will also have downloadable copies on the DEFCON 201 NextCloud of select media for DEFCON 201 Members who want hard copies of videos. If you want to be in the Introduction, Member Spotlights or Archive Lighting Talks you can inquire into us about signing our DEFCON 201 Consent Forums and we will walk you through the process. Those who have not signed our DEFCON 201 Consent Forums during meetings will NOT be recorded in Video or Audio as per our policy. Furthermore, any instances of media recording photo/video/audio via DEFCON 201 Staff will be alerted to all president attendees beforehand prior to recording.

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.::DEFCON 201 Meet Up — October 2019 — Hacktoberfest 3.0::.

====================================================== Date: October 18th, Friday

Time: 7:00 PM — 10:00 PM

Location: Sub Culture (260 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ)

Meet-Up: https://www.meetup.com/DEFCON201/events/265113157/

Facebook [TOR]: TBA

Hackaday: TBA

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Welcome to the October 2019 DEFCON 201 Meet Up!

It’s October, one of our favorite months of the year so you know what that means…Pumpkin Spice everything and Christmas decorations being already on sale at your local supermarket. But for us, October is one of our favorite most hacker times of year. This is the month where we get to make our own Halloween cosplay, do Git Pull Requests for free computer swag, celebrate Cyber Security Awareness Month and attend the only reason to ever travel to Philly the police state: Pumpcon!

We invite you down to join our spooky madness!

About Our Venue:

We welcome you to Sub Culture at 260 Newark Ave in Jersey City. Five blocks from the Grove Street Path station and right on the NJ Transit Bus Stop; enjoy Free-Wifi, affordable (meat and vegan) food, power strips, video games on Raspberry Pi and sweet times! More information at https://www.subculturejc.com

If you like to do a talk at our meet ups our collaborate with our staff and members in a project partnership shoot us a email at:

INFO {at} DEFCON201 [DOT] ORG

.::AGENDA & SCHEDULE::. 7:00pm — 7:55pm Meet & Greet 7:55pm — 8:00pm DEFCON 201 News, Updates & Announcements — Sidepocket 8:00pm — 8:35pm Locking Down Production Access at Startup Scale — Liz Fong-Jones 8:35pm — 8:40pm Hacktoberfest: The Stupid Content Tracker— Sidepocket 8:40pm — 9:55pm Open Workshops Projects 9:55pm — 10:00pm END OF OFFICIAL MEET UP

.::OPEN PROJECTS::.

Practice Lockpicking & Locksport — Sidepocket

Hacktoberfest 2019 — Sidepocket

.::LIGHTNING TALKS::.

DEFCON 201 News, Updates & Announcements :..>The Co-Founders and some of it’s active attendees have been working on many awesome things. Here are some of them for the end of this year, 2019 and beyond!

:.> Bio: A Co-Founder of DEFCON 201, an open group for hacker workshop projects in North East New Jersey, Sidepocket is constantly wanting to help people to get better at whatever they want to do and learn. He also has a history with NYC 2600, Radio Statler at Hackers on Planet Earth, Phone Losers of America, Museum of Urban Reclaim Spaces and The Yes Men. Find out more about DEFCON 201 at: http://www.defcon201.org

Locking Down Production Access at Startup Scale :..>You don’t have to be Google to implement good security controls. Learn about what lessons translated when going from Google to a 25-person startup, and how a modicum of effort can better secure user data and access to production. We’ll cover implementing production changes using continuous integration, a variety of second factor solutions for SSH access to production, and more.

:..>Bio: Liz Fong-Jones is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 15+ years of experience. She is an advocate at Honeycomb.io for the SRE and Observability communities, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.

She lives in Brooklyn with her wife Elly, metamours, and a Samoyed/Golden Retriever mix, and in San Francisco and Seattle with her other partners. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights as a board member of the National Center for Transgender Equality.

Hacktoberfest: The Stupid Content Tracker :..>Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean and DEV. In this quick primer, you will learn how to navigate GitHub, how Git works, how to log into the Hacktoberfest website, how to do a Pull Request and what you need to do to earn your FREE T-Shirt and swag!

:.>Bio: A Co-Founder of DEFCON 201, an open group for hacker workshop projects in North East New Jersey, Sidepocket is constantly wanting to help people to get better at whatever they want to do and learn. He also has a history with NYC 2600, Radio Statler at Hackers on Planet Earth, Phone Losers of America, Museum of Urban Reclaim Spaces and The Yes Men. Find out more about DEFCON 201 at: http://www.defcon201.org

.::OPEN PROJECTS::.

Practicing Lockpicking & Locksport :..>DEFCON 201 will have padlocks and professional practice tumblers provided by TOOOL to practice on. Fun and easy to learn for all ages and backgrounds with two expert instructors!

Hacktoberfest 2019 :..>What’s Hacktoberfest?

Hacktoberfest — brought to you by DigitalOcean in partnership with DEV — is a month-long celebration of open source software. Maintainers are invited to guide would-be contributors toward issues that will help move the project forward, and contributors get the opportunity to give back to both projects they like and others they’ve just discovered. No contribution is too small — bug fixes and documentation updates are valid ways of participating.

Can’t make it to this event? Hacktoberfest is virtual and open to participants from around the globe. Sign up to participate today at https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com.

:Rules & Prizes:

First, sign up on the Hacktoberfest site at https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com. To qualify for the official limited edition Hacktoberfest shirt, you must register and make four pull requests between October 1–31. Pull requests can be to any public repo on GitHub, not just the ones with issues labeled Hacktoberfest. If a maintainer reports your pull request as invalid or behavior not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate.

Connect with other Hacktoberfest participants by using #hacktoberfest on your social media platform of choice.

DEFCON 201 Hacktoberfest 2019 GitHub Highlights: https://github.com/defcon201

Full List Of Hacktoberfest 2019 GitHub Projects: https://github.com/search?q=label%3Ahacktoberfest+state%3Aopen+no%3Aassignee+is%3Aissue&type=Issues

Hacktoberfest 2019 Climate Change Projects: https://github.com/topics/climate-change

New to DigitalOcean? Receive USD $50 in infrastructure credit at https://do.co/hacktoberfest50.

:NOTE ON DEFCON 201 Stance On GitHub:

We are aware of the moral issues surrounding the GitHub platform. If any of our attendees do not want to participate this activity for this reason, we sympathize with your choice and we will do nothing to dissuade you otherwise.

DEFCON 201 does not endorse any of the corporate actions of GitHub.

The choice to do Hacktoberfest was decided upon months before the issues came to public and Hacktoberfest works only with GitHub as per-noted on the Hacktoberfest FAQ.

In 2020 and beyond, if Hacktoberfest doe not take our urging to team up with an alternative software repo such as GitLab or BitBucket, we will put to a member vote of continuing our Hacktoberfest tradition every October due to the moral controversy of GitHub’s actions.

DEFCON 201 VIDEO FILMING :..>DEFCON 201 will expand into video media in late September. We will be launching various videos including an Introduction, Member Spotlights, Archived Lightning Talks, Tutorials, Directions and more on the DTube, Vimeo and YouTube Mirror platforms. We will also have downloadable copies on the DEFCON 201 NextCloud of select media for DEFCON 201 Members who want hard copies of videos. If you want to be in the Introduction, Member Spotlights or Archive Lighting Talks you can inquire into us about signing our DEFCON 201 Consent Forums and we will walk you through the process. Those who have not signed our DEFCON 201 Consent Forums during meetings will NOT be recorded in Video or Audio as per our policy. Furthermore, any instances of media recording photo/video/audio via DEFCON 201 Staff will be alerted to all president attendees beforehand prior to recording.

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::URGENT UPDATE: ATTEND HACKER RADIO SHOW “OFF THE HOOK” POSSIBLE LAST BROADCAST::

On the morning of October 7, 2019, staffers at WBAI in New York were locked out and all programming suspended. According to the Pacifica Foundation (parent of WBAI), this was done due to “serious and persistent financial losses at WBAI.” This necessitated the foundation laying off all the staff.

As of Tuesday, October 8, an injunction has been granted that allows WBAI to resume operations. We now expect “Off The Hook” to air in its normal timeslot this Wednesday.

2600 Source: https://www.2600.com/content/lockout-wbai-hook-indefinitely-suspended-update

NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/business/media/wbai-pacifica-layoffs.html

NY Times: TOR: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2019/10/07/business/media/wbai-pacifica-layoffs.html

Video Of Pacifica Totalitarian Raid: https://www.facebook.com/deepdance/videos/10157633982881774/UzpfSTY2NDg3ODEyODpWSzoxMDE1NzU5MzI5ODMxNzkzNw/?multi_permalinks=10157593298317937%2C10157590716452937&notif_id=1570466111306619&notif_t=group_activity

Video Pacifica Raid TOR: https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/deepdance/videos/10157633982881774/UzpfSTY2NDg3ODEyODpWSzoxMDE1NzU5MzI5ODMxNzkzNw/?multi_permalinks=10157593298317937%2C10157590716452937&notif_id=1570466111306619&notif_t=group_activity

This is alarming and saddening for DEFCON 201 Staff. One of our first experiences (outside of BBS) with the hacker community at large was the 2600 Magazine and Off The Hook broadcasts. Our Co-Founders are also long time attendees of the NYC 2600 Meet Up that the 2600 Staff organizes and it was those meet ups that inspired the creation of DEFCON 201.

For anyone brave enough to use NJ Transit into Manhattan, PLEASE come join us for their live “Off the Hook” this Wednesday (October 9th) evening at 7:00 PM. It’s short notice, but a show of numbers and support is desperately needed.

Address: The Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, NY 11217

Spread The Word!

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