You're right, Eric -- we are mad as hell, too. But I'm not about to jump on a flight to the west coast to simply share strategies. The fact that I would even consider it negates the functions which we are working towards, no? I propose that us east coasters organize and meet as well. Pat and I are DC bourne, for those interested, I'd like to propose a DC local meeting. Suggestions?
Yeah. Does anybody have the resources to setup an IRC at a known cypherpunk site? -- Pat Hykkonen, N5NPL Texas State Technical College at Waco {pat,postmaster}@tstc.edu Instructional Network Services PGP Key available by finger. 3801 Campus Dr. Waco, Tx 76705 V:(817) 867-4830 F:(817) 799-2843
We could set up an encrypted `vat' audio session between the locations. Cygnus has T1 connectivity to the Internet. Someone would need to provide a good self-powered speaker to plug into the Sun audio port (a standard mini phono plug). We have a microphone that will possibly work, though we should run some tests before the meeting. Cygnus does not have multicast support, so we can't feed the `mbone' (multicast backbone) with it, but we can attempt one or several point-to-point links. `vat' runs on Suns and is available from ftp.ee.lbl.gov or ftp.cygnus.com:/pub/vat.1.56.tar.Z. It's `Van's Audio Tool', unfortunately available only in binary. Its encryption option requires that the participants agree on a key in advance, and type it into each workstation at the time of the conference. John Gilmore
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