What is Sukey?

People that study technology often fail to remember to study people. Folks get so wrapped up and enamoured with the data, and so alienated from the people doing the work that human practice often gets ignored. Re-inscribing the "human" into technology is extremely important...lest we fall into the trap of "there is no alternative."

The Sukey project speaks to a number of theoretical problems with which we grapple when thinking about technology: the agency of software, the production of space, the possibility of reconfiguring existing capitalist technologies for purposes of resistance, and community organizing through emerging media channels. Sukey is also inherently geographic and does work to expose the often largely invisible tactics of the state to dominate spaces of protest.

So it appears that the Sukey app and our team are sort of a unique case.
When we bemoan and lament technology's role in oppression and governmental regimes, the question we often ask ourselves is, "How could this be done 'differently'?"  Some may ask the same question regarding geoweb technology: "What could be done to make geoweb applications more egalitarian?  You make it sound as though capital domination is a foregone conclusion." The first step toward changing that is imagining a different possibility.

I was recently told by a friend that Sukey is regarded by some as a counter-example to "the corporate-state nexus owns and manipulates social media and other technology" in the geoweb field. Thanks guys!

Source: Adapted from an Email from Josef Eckert

Search Google for Music

So I just saw this on Twitter: http://www.googlemusicsearch.com/
Note: This site is not owned or operated by Google.com. This site uses the Google AJAX Search API to provide a customized subset of Google results.
As far as I can tell it is basically just a filtered google search which is tuned to finding music files. It is amazing. Quite useful really given that the UK government seems so keen to stamp out filesharing and torrenting. I found plenty of music from my favourite band. As far as I can tell it is basically just a filtered google search which is tuned to finding music files. It is amazing. Quite useful really given that the UK government seems so keen to stamp out filesharing and torrenting. I found plenty of music from my favourite band. I wonder if there is a way to express a preference for finding files on servers with nice symmetric fibre to the home vis-a-vis Sweden (this would make streaming practical as the upstream bandwith for most home connections / servers is limited.
You should give it a try, tell me how you find it. @samthetechie

 

 Omnomnomnomnom

If you want to download a whole album or loads of files at once on the same page then use then use the "Down Them All" plugin, it detects media files, pdfs, images etc in a page using filters and lets you quickly queue the downloads rather than clicking them one by one.

We're glad you liked CryptopartyLondon

Thanks to everyone that attended the event, it was a great success. Since it was our main aim that people had fun, we are very glad that so many turned up and had a good time. We have yet to have our organisers post-event debrief but we just wanted to keep in touch in the meantime by spamming you with some links :)
Edit us: https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/London (has the slides)
Like us: https://www.facebook.com/CryptoPartyLondon (so the whole world knows that you want to learn how to hack, joking)
Follow @cryptopartylond

p.s. there is another one planned for 19th October.

p.p.s. we are happy to promote any blog posts or upload user-contributed content related to cryptoparty so please send us any graphics, presentations, slides, pdfs, blog posts or photos. Thanks!

p.p.p.s. http://samthetechie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/a-quick-retrospective-inaugural.html

Observations of Alecm's Observations of @cryptopartylond / #cryptoparty

Alecm,
thank you for your observations expressed in your blog post: http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/8623

From reading your post I believe you perhaps have not quite grasped what Cryptoparty is. Please read this page which holds the currently held view of what cryptoparty is: https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/CryptoParty
 
It seems that you are evaluating this event in terms of a format (the Bar Camp) and a culture that we have never subscribed to or endorsed. So please take care to read our documentation to see where we are coming from before comparing us to something which is largely irrelevant.
 We have been very clear about our culture on our documentation and when explaining the idea to people, Cryptoparty London has inherited a culture of Do-ocracy, Sudo-Leadership, and Excellence from here https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/CryptoParty#Suggested_Conduct which derives from Noisebridge's 'Tripartite Pillars' https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge_Vision#Tripartite_Pillars and, ancestrally, from the international hackspace design patterns (from the 24th CCC in 2007, http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Design_Patterns). You now have all of the references to correctly inform yourself of our culture and our aims.

Regards,

samthetechie

A quick retrospective: Inaugural Cryptoparty London

Hi everyone, here are a few brief thoughts about last night's first ever  Cryptoparty London meetup.
Audio (3:31): http://snd.sc/OxFMv6

do you dig sks.mit.edu

Random thought as we were doing cryptoparty, apparently MIT's Keyservers were updated a while back from http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/ to an 'sks' server. I think I prefer the old service, IMHO it is better for teaching.

xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx:~$ dig sks.mit.edu

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> sks.mit.edu
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- 11741="11741" br="br" id:="id:" noerror="noerror" opcode:="opcode:" query="query" status:="status:">;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;sks.mit.edu.            IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
sks.mit.edu.        3585    IN    A    18.7.76.74

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mit.edu.        121597    IN    NS    strawb.mit.edu.
mit.edu.        121597    IN    NS    w20ns.mit.edu.
mit.edu.        121597    IN    NS    bitsy.mit.edu.

;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 30 06:48:54 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 106

xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx:~$ dig pgp.mit.edu

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> pgp.mit.edu
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- 10526="10526" br="br" id:="id:" noerror="noerror" opcode:="opcode:" query="query" status:="status:">;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pgp.mit.edu.            IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
pgp.mit.edu.        3600    IN    CNAME    CRYPTONOMICON.mit.edu.
CRYPTONOMICON.mit.edu.    3600    IN    A    18.9.60.141

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mit.edu.        121588    IN    NS    w20ns.mit.edu.
mit.edu.        121588    IN    NS    bitsy.mit.edu.
mit.edu.        121588    IN    NS    strawb.mit.edu.

;; Query time: 273 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 30 06:49:02 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 134

xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx:~$

CryptoParty London: First London Cryptoparty Confirmed

CryptoParty London: First London Cryptoparty Confirmed: 29th Septermber, London Hackspace 7:30pm Hi everyone, welcome to the first blogpost from the London cryptoparty