Hacktivism

Mission Statement
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.


 * --Eric Hughes, "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto"

Tor (The Onion Router)
Tor is a tool for defending against traffic analysis. It protects the identities of its users by passing their traffic through a network of volunteer run "Onion Routers" before sending the data to its final destination. Users of Tor can be reasonably assured that no one monitoring their connection will be able to determine the content of their communications or with whom they're communicating. That said, attacks on the network do exist and care must be taken in how one uses the Tor network. Interested individuals are encouraged to read The Tor FAQ before using Tor.

Hampshire Hacktivists' Onion Proxy
As part of their commitment to making privacy tools more accessible to Hampshire students, Hampshire Hacktivists are running a TOR Onion Proxy (OP) on the Hacktivism server which allows anyone on the Hampshire College LAN to use the TOR network safely and easily. Individuals on the LAN can simply proxy their traffic through the Hacktivism Tor client rather than configuring one themselves. If you're using Firefox, all you need to do to start browsing with Tor is install the Torbutton add-on, and configure it with the following settings:

Enable Torbutton by clicking on the icon in the Firefox status bar, and browse to check.torproject.org to ensure that you're now browsing anonymously.

More advanced users may decide they'd like to customize their Privoxy settings while still using the Hacktivism Onion Proxy. For these users we've allowed direct access to the Hacktivism OP on port 9100, just add the following line to your Privoxy configuration file:
 * forward-socks4a / hacktivism.ath.cx:9100.

Anomos
Following the first stable release of Anomos, Hampshire Hacktivists will provide students with the tools they need to get started with anonymous and encrypted BitTorrent.

GPG Keyserver
Hampshire Hacktivists are currently running an OpenPGP Synchronizing Key Server (SKS) on their server. The keyserver maintains a database of the email encryption keys used by various people on campus so that they may communicate more securely. Promoting the use of GPG is one of Hampshire Hacktivists' primary goals. If you want to learn how to generate your own encryption key and add it to the database, come to one of our meetings.

Generating an OpenPGP Key

 * TODO: Make this section

GPG Keysigning Parties

 * GPG info-sessions/tutorials
 * CAFF (CA Fire-and-forget) and other PGP-related scripts

More generally

 * Info-sessions/tutorials on various topics in the realm of encryption and cryptography

Git / Gitweb

 * Git tutorial (for the uninitiated)
 * Git space for member projects

RFID Auditing

 * Audit of RFID authentication scheme

USRP

 * Probably F'09 at the soonest

Book Scanner
Under development, mostly.

Hacktivism Server

 * IP: 172.30.154.198
 * DNS (resolves to above IP, which only works on-campus): hacktivism.ath.cx
 * uname -a --> Linux mycroft 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 15 18:15:07 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Getting an account

 * email hacktivism@ornia.hampshire.edu

Inventory
None - ''I think... someone fix this who knows for sure?''