[HacktionLab] Barn camp

[Mike Harris]

Hi justsomename,

A delayed response I know to this, and I know others have responded too.

Cheers,

Mike.

On 08/05/2013 21:04, justsomename at tormail.org wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to this list, and never been to the camp.
> This year, me and possibly a friend want to come along,
> We are both very broke, and a lift from London will go a long way,
> preferably in time to help setup.
That might be slightly too passive a way of putting it I think.  Has
anyone responded to you on this?  Might be good to send another closer
to the time with subject "I need a lift from London, email me off list",
if you're still stuck.

Another travel option I can think of is a megabus to Bristol then join
the bike to barncamp possey on the Thursday evening....
>
> I want to run a workshop on TOR hidden services, I don't really know how
> to plan this, I figured I'll just do a tour of a few nice hidden forums
> and how to set up a service (it's dead easy).
Cool.  Add it to the workshop list at
https://hacktionlab.org/hacktionlab/index.php/BarnCamp_2013_ideas_scratchpad
- the Cryptoparty one is already on there, or just propose it when you
arrive and then we can see if there are takers.  We tend to organise
things in a free-form basis, we have a load of workshop proposals and
then work out the schedule and what people want to do.  Of course anyone
is welcome to have a workshop at any time with anyone else, or even just
with themselves (although I suggest you head a little bit into the
forest for that type of workshop).
>
> If he comes, he wants to do something about bitcoin, I don't know exactly
> what yet, but I think it goes nicely with tor so we can combine it.
We have covered Bitcoin at the last one in 2011, but the more the
merrier and it'd be interesting to get an update.  We've got a
'microslot' section planned this year suitable for giving 5-15 min
talks/presentations/demos/show-and-tells, so this an option for anyone
without a fully fledged workshop.
>
> If you get the primary internet through 3G, can someone check that it
> allows for TOR traffic, from my experience they often either block TOR or
> limit the bandwidth so much so that it becomes unusable.
It's an ADSL line.  There's no 3G on site, and there's very little 2.5G.

On that note Vodafone is the best network on site.  Orange sucks the
most, Tmobile sucks too and I can't remember about the others....
>
> I wanted to do a general darknets tour, but the only other ones I know are
> I2P which is Java based and therefore no longer secure, gnunet which is
> still in early development and very insecure, and cjdns/hyperboria which I
> haven't played with enough to do a workshop on, so if anyone knows more
> and want to join please do.
>
> A few other things, I am hoping to find a crew to experiment with setting
> up some wireless mesh in London. I have a stack of flashable routers. I
> can bring a couple if those will help.
Do bring a couple, I'm sure there'll be a few folk with wireless and
flashing experience there (again please try to use the woodlands behind
the farm for flashing).
> My goal in the long run is to through contacts try and set one up in Gaza,
> which is an ideal environment for this, as they are relaying on Israel for
> Internet, have regular power cuts and most importantly, are in a very
> dense environment which means less routers. You can also route internet
> through Egypt this way.
>
> I have been playing with OpenCV face recognition, and I would quite like
> to play with it some more if anyone is up to it let me know and I will
> direct them to my source, though it's nothing special and a few days of
> reading could get you to where I am at.
>
> If you can give us a lift, please drop me a line.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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