<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>What do you do when your entire community is being phished? What do you do when your social networks are subject to social engineering? What do you do when your peers and your friends are subject to a confidence scam?<br><br></div>This is not a hypothetical question. This is happening, now.<br><br></div>Since the failure of TechShop, our community has been grasping at straws. This is a community which operates in a sphere where trust isn't questioned and this is being exploited, right now.<br><br></div>So I turn to my community which is security conscious. I turn to a community which is politically active in social equality and cognizant of social engineering. People who understand the vulnerability of social networks, both online and in person.<br><br></div>This is largely centered around exploiting public personas and friends-lists through Facebook and good, old fashion telephone. This is about applying constant pressure and mining people for information which they feel is innocuous, but which serves to bring new vulnerabilities into resolution, pixel by pixel, 9 to 5.<br><br></div>Much of this conflict is centered around $600,000 in back pay owed to Employees and Contractors, and millions of dollars owed to members, lenders, and leased equipment companies.<br><br></div>We have legal counsel, we have active and organized workers, we have a newly weary community, but we don't have the centuries of collective security experience Noisebridge has.<br><br></div>Would anyone here be willing to sit down and review our observations and help us understand how to proceed in this environment where trust and community have been breached?<br><br></div>Thank you<br><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://nutxandxoltx.org" target="_blank"><img src="https://docs.google.com/a/coreyfro.com/uc?id=1IrIhSbF4JBJAbjtZbI9YHr6YfTd9kOTl0g&export=download" alt="Nutx & Xoltx" width="420" height="94"></a><a href="http://nutxandxoltx.org/" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div><a href="http://nutxandxoltx.org/" target="_blank">Visit Us!</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://nutxandxoltx.org" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div></div>
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