Hi everyone, Minutes of Thursday 4 September 2014 meetup: <<EOF Administration -------------- - Name of group put to vote. We are now "LibrePlanet Brisbane"! - The LibrePlanet Code of Conduct was adopted. Please take a moment to read it. - Link: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Code_of_Conduct News ---- - HACIENDA surveillance program. - Article: http://www.fsf.org/news/gnu-hackers-unmask-massive-hacienda-surveillance-pro... - Western countries port-scanning the Internet to discover hidden or vulnerable servers. - TCP Stealth countermeasures have been implemented in Linux kernel. Paper: https://gnunet.org/kirsch2014knock - Email self-defense guide was updated for Enigmail v1.7. - Link: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ - Enigmail is a PGP plugin for Thunderbird. See https://enigmail.net/home/index.php - Australian Tax Office guidance on cryptocurrency (incl. Bitcoin) - Regarded as assets, *not currency*. - Various implications for individuals and businesses; read the guidance if you deal in cryptocurrency. - https://www.ato.gov.au/General/Gen/Tax-treatment-of-crypto-currencies-in-Aus... - Software Freedom Day, Saturday 20th September - Registered events in Melbourne, Hobart and Launceston. - We should organise an event for next year! - ProtonMail beta - Request invite: https://protonmail.ch/invite - Encrypted email service incorporated and hosted in Switzerland - They *never* see email in the clear. - Interop with other email providers via symmetric encryption; passphrase must be shared with recipient out of band. - In related developments, GMail has some sort of PGP support now, and Darkmail initiative by Ladar Levinson (Lavabit) and Zimmerman (PGP) seems to be coming along. Survey of secure email services may a good topic for upcoming talk. Talk ---- Sean Chalmers entertained with a recounting of his journey from first discovering free software, then using it, to actively contributing back, and his parallel journey of gaining skills and knowledge in his field, and apply and sharing these. Slides: https://github.com/mankyKitty/fs-oss-journey. EOF Thanks to those who came along, and to Sean for speaking. We already have an interesting talk lined up for next month; if you have a topic you would like to present on please let me know. Also, please let the list (and/or me) know if there are items you would like to see covered in the news section. Cheers, Fraser