September 7, 2011

Agenda

• What’s after the certificate authority (CA) model? (Ich Sun hopefully the catalyst to change it)
• Mini-hackathon with open data (KC)
• SOFA liquor bust
• Tech podcast
• #yyj skeptics in the pub
• IdeaWave sponsorship
• secret saviour
• postmedia url hack

Minutes

• Discussion about the #yyj skeptics in the pub
• Discussion around media and lies vs not the full truth
• The believing brain
• Why people believe weird things
• The Believing Brain
• Mythbusters on yawning
• Crowd sourcing a nap
• Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil
• Singularity U
• Transcendant man
• Convergence.io
• sslsniff
• Van shelter done at the DataBC hackathon

• Disclose.ca

• E-VOTING & ONLINE SECURITY
  • States are slow moving beasts, they can afford to wait 10yrs to wait out the system
  • CA Domains SSL basically proven as insecure… how can we possibly use it for voting
• OpenDataBC Hackathon Sep 24th
  • Booze Apps
  • Google fusion tables