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Oly Hackbloc to Lead Security, Communications Workshops in Denver Next Week!
Next Tuesday and Wednesday, December 22nd and 23rd, the Olympia Hackbloc (on tour!) will be leading a workshop series on security culture, computer security, encryption, and anonymity. These workshop is targeted towards activists, journalists, and members of the general public. We will also be giving a workshop on using Twitter as a communications system for actions. This system was used during the most recent RNC and the last two rounds of Port Militarization Resistance.
"This holiday season you have the chance to give a great gift to someone you love. That gift being security and peace of mind. This is a great chance for you to hone your skills and develop them if you feel overwhelmed by the topic. Two year ago I took Ringo's workshop and have taken one since then. Thats two and this one will be my third."
UPDATE: All services are now working, situation: normal.
We are performing an upgrade of the server over the next few days, as of right now (saturday morning) the mailing lists and subversion are down, please bear with us until they are working again. We expect to have all services working again by the end of the weekend. Thanks for your patience.
As many of you probably noticed the Hackbloc.org website (as well as all other hosted websites) were down on thursday and mail and mailing lists were out throught the weekend. And then today our database was down.database was down.
This was all due to one of our sysadmins accidentally running the dreaded rm -rf /* command and deleting all of our bin, etc, and home directories before he realized what he had done and stopped the command. I spent the weekend fixing it with the help of the other hackblocer's and now everything is back in working order. The mail server and mailing lists are back as well.
This Saturday, Feb. 28, the Olympia Hackbloc (olyhackbloc.org) will be leading a workshop on security culture, computer security, intelligence, and privacy.
Topics to be covered:
All participants will receive digital copies of the presentation materials. To help cover costs, participants are asked to bring $5 with them or donate whatever they feel is fair. Nobody will be turned away because they don't have money. If you have a computer, you are highly encouraged to bring it. Flash drives and external hard drives would also be useful. A large portion of this workshop will be hands-on computer work. If you have extra computers, extension cords, power strips, blank CDs, flash drives, or external hard drives please bring them as well. This workshop is targeted towards activists, journalists, and members of the general public.
** Event information **
Security Culture, Computer Security, and Privacy: A Crash Course for Activists, Journalists, and the General Public Saturday Feb. 28 at The Evergreen State College 11 AM SHARP till Approx. 3 PM Meet in main floor lobby of the library building, and look for the Hackbloc signs. Bring your computer We are interested in filming portions of the workshop. If you have a video camera you can donate, please contact workshops@olyhackbloc.org asap. Media and press wishing to cover this event should contact press@olyhackbloc.org prior. For more information about Hackbloc, please see the Oly Hackbloc website at http://www.olyhackbloc.org.
-- Sponsored by Evergreen/Olympia Students for Democratic Society, which meets every Wednesday at 6:00 in the Solarium of the CAB building at Evergreen --
Hackbloc will now be accepting user submitted stories to our site. We will be going over each story and publishing them if they are good. And if they are really good we will use them in Hack This Zine. We hope to see some good stories and find some excellent new writers for the site this way! Some tips for getting published: Write cool stories about technology, hacking, activism, political theory or even geek culture. You have read the quality and content of the stories we post, try and match that (it shouldn't be hard ;). And don't forget to spell check! I can't stress that enough. Also submissions of less than 10 words will be automatically deleted.
For anyone that has had problems accessing Hack This Zine the last couple days my sincere apologies. A change which I intended to make it easier to browse the issues of hack this zine has actually made it harder to access the issues by sending up a permission denied error. Anyway the problem is fixed now and you may download issues at http://hackbloc.org/zine or you can browse them at http://hackbloc.org/etc/zine
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