Seattle cypherpunks group

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Tue Apr 3 18:28:29 PDT 2001


Why not ask IRS Agent Jeff Gordon to be your guest speaker? The Feds
are certain to have someone in attendance.

During today's opening remarks by the prosecution (took almost an hour),
we learned that the Feds had an agent who infiltrated Bell's common
law court and was far more active than Bell, voting to convict Janet
Reno in absentia etc. The same guy also appeared to infiltrate the
Libertarian Party of Washington state. Cypherpunks and AP play a key
role of the government's case, with Tim May and Eric Hughes being
mentioned, and this is just Day One.

Don't mean to tease, more on this after I finish my writeup.

-Declan

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:52:39PM -0700, Alan Olsen wrote:
> There used to be a Seattle Cypherpunks list, but I have not seen traffic
> on it in years.
> 
> I need to get the Portland group going again. Got kind of burned out being
> the only one actually doing anything to organize meetings and the like...
> (As well as having damn little time.)
> 
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
> 
> > From: codehead at ix.netcom.com
> > To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt at coil.com>
> > Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 02:18:37 -0700
> > Subject: Seattle cypherpunks group
> > 
> > 
> > Matthew,
> > 
> > I'm pulling together a local cypherpunks group in Seattle.  If you
> > know anyone in the area who is interested in issues of cryptography
> > and privacy, could you please pass this announcement on?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Emily Sandblade
> > 
> > P.S.  If you're ever in the area, I'd love to have you as a speaker.
> > 
> > =====================================
> > 
> > ***Please circulate to all interested parties***
> > 
> > Announcing the first meeting of 2001 of Cypherpunks-Seattle.
> > 
> > When:  April 14, 2001 12:30 - 4:00 p.m.
> > Where:  Bellevue Las Margaritas
> >       437 - 108th Avenue N. E., downtown Bellevue
> >       Space is limited, please RSVP to
> > seacypherpunks at ix.netcom.com
> > 
> > 
> > Agenda -
> > 
> >       Introductions and Open Discussion
> > 
> >       E-Gold and other Alternative Currency Systems
> > 
> >       Problems and Tradeoffs in Public Key Infrastructures
> > 
> > 
> > E-Gold and other Alternative Currency Systems
> > 
> >       E-gold has enjoyed increasing success as the first viable
> > free-market electronic currency.  It is privately backed, and
> > does not rely on any particular government's political stability
> > to retain its value.
> > 
> >       Vince Callaway, who wears hats as both an independent in-
> > and out-exchange provider for e-gold and Norfed and a software
> > engineer, will discuss the background of free-market currencies,
> > some of the current operating paradigms, and will touch on some
> > of the future prospects for these currencies.
> > 
> >       Vince has the distinction of having been an early BBS sysop,
> > moving into becoming Tacoma's first internet provider in 1991.
> > He has been involved both in getting Washington State's leginfo
> > site created, and was instrumental in getting a digital signature
> > law passed in Washington.  Vince also operates a PGP key server.
> > 
> > 
> > Problems and Tradeoffs in Public Key Infrastructures
> > 
> >       This could hardly come at a better time, after the
> > announcement that Verisign issued a Class 3 Digital Certificate
> > to someone who purported to be from Microsoft, but wasn't.  This
> > certificate can be used to code-sign things like ActiveX
> > controls, macros, and applications.  Anyone in possession of that
> > certificate could present malicious code to an unsuspecting user
> > and fool that user into accepting it into his computer.  ("After
> > all, it said it was from Microsoft.")
> > 
> >       Albert Yang will discuss what PKI--Public Key
> > Infrastructures--can and cannot do.  He will briefly cover the
> > basics of how PKI works, where it fails, and when and how
> > certificates can be trusted--and defeated.  In addition, Albert
> > has promised to give a glimpse of some of the new PKI
> > developments on the horizon.
> > 
> >       Albert is currently a security architect and PKI consultant
> > with Baltimore Technology.  Previously, he was a consultant with
> > RSA.  He has several years of background in Linux, BSD, and web
> > site design and programming.
> > 
> > 
> > The cypherpunks meeting is an Open Meeting on US Soil and it is
> > free for anyone to attend.
> > 
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