[Noisebridge-discuss] Bay Area Hacker's Association meet at Noisebridge

[travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org]

Hello hello,

We're approaching our first meeting, so I thought some introductions
might be in order.

First, about BAHA, we have about 40 people on the mlist; other details
here:
http://baha.bitrot.info/

We'd like to meet at Noisebridge, and I'll be becoming a member, and
encouraging others to donate to help the space.

Our first topic is physical surveillance.  How is it done?  What are
its limitations?  Moreover, what's it like to actually do it, without
being a [private] dick?  We'll be giving a lecture, and then later
we'll have a workshop to practice the art of surveillance (for a
limited period of time) on a brave volunteer, who is witting but
untrained in counter-surveillance.

We will cover such topics as basic principles, terminology, places for
fixed surveillance, types of mobile surveillance with a strong
emphasis on what we'll use in the workshop, progressive surveillance,
team rotation, cover (for action), operator characteristics, "tells",
how to dress, hairstyles, disguises, the phases of mobile
surveillance, floating boxes, layup and cheating follow, a short
coverage of surveillance countermeasures, and that's just in the first
40 slides or so.

Later on, we'll definitely have another presentation (or three) on
surveillance countermeasures.  Both sides inform each other, so
learning and practicing one will definitely help you get better at its
opposite.  I hope that there'll be enough interest we can train an
independent team and do counter-surveillance, or pit the two against
each other (maybe a "red" team tries to move something across town,
the "blue" tries to document it).

As can be imagined, some of these things are best done with some
gadgets; concealments for remotely-operated cameras, voice-activated
equipment, special vehicle modifications, disguises and special
clothing, and so on.  I can see no end of fun things to do at NB.

I'm hoping we'll get some more volunteers, who aren't very paranoid,
so we can have a hope of not getting caught out every time.  In
exchange, I'll give them specialized counter-surveillance training,
and they'll have the option of doing it again with the new training.

If you have ideas on how a large group can easily communicate, please
shoot it to the list.  Right now twitter seems the easiest, requiring
no special equipment, but it requires typing instead of talk into a
hands-free mic.  FRS radios are cheap, but we'd have to buy one for
everyone, and without voice activation and earpieces, they're kinda
non-discreet.
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