October 2026 KC2600 meeting

 It's that time again!  Please drop by the Oak Park Mall Barnes and Nobel coffee shop around 6pm and enjoy some good times and discussion with the KC2600 crew!

September 2026 KC2600 meeting

 Howdy all!  we will be meeting this Friday at 6pm at Oak Park Mall in the book store coffee shop.  

Bring your stories and projects!

 Also we have some updates on online resources this month:

• KC2600 tools has been updated https://tools.kc2600.com
• KC2600 media has been updated with seckc and other talks https://media.kc2600.com

See you all there! 

KC2600 July 2026

 Hey all July 3rd we will be meeting at Oak Park Mall Barnes and noble coffee shop as usual, bring your stories and projects!  Coming up soon is  HOBOCON www.hobocon.com I hope to see people there soon!  After that in a few weeks is Def Con, Hope to see KC2600ers there too!.

KC2600 Threat Intellegence project: SOC Tools

 Greetings!

I have been working on some analyst tools which focuses on the browser as the OS platform.  Browsers are ubiquitous and HTML/Javascript is fairly well accepted and requires no special drivers, SDK and seldom suffers from dependency hell.

 Check out https://tools.kc2600.com (ask me for the password at the meeting tonight).  I would like to get feedback and do more testing before opening this up to the world.

  

May 2026 KC 2600 Meeting

 The Kansas City 2600 meeting will be held at Oak Park Mall in Overland Park at 6pm on May 1st, 2026 in the Barnes and Nobel Coffee Shop.  Please bring your stories and projects!  

April 2026 KC2600 meeting

 The April KC2600 will be held at the Oak Park Mall Barnes And Nobel Coffee Shop in Oveland park at 6pm this Friday April 3rd, 2026.  

Agenda:

• General greetings and fellowship. 

 An opening discussion 

•  Professional Culture and Sub-culture Triggers: Fightin' words!  Every culture has its hero's and villains.  "land-minds" professional code switching when moving between different cultures. 

 ... Or whatevs

If that's boring, this is an open dialog, so we talk about what we want to talk about. ;) 

See you there! 

Call for meeting locations suggestions

 The greater Kansas City 2600 has traditionally meets in Overland park Kansas and to date only one or two people have suggested to meet elsewhere, so it's only right to open this dialog and ask where people want to meet?  Please email asmodianx@kc2600.com with your preferences. 

KC 2600 March 6th 2026 - Hacker culture - The real name war

A parting question I posed to the last KC2600 meeting is "Hacker culture traditionally uses aliases and handles.  Is this still of value? Are we more or less safe by doing this?"  Since we have a lot of people who are just entering the Information Security industry its important to think on this. Identity, Aliases, handles and some times even nom de guerre are key aspects of daily life but its important to know why they are used and what the practical effects of using an alias.  

 Things to think about:

• OSINT techniques
• Social media
• KYC
• Child protection laws 

 

Location: Oak Park Mall Barnes and Noble Coffee Shop, Overland Park, KS 3/6/2026 @ 6pm 

As a reminder - 2600 doesn't have a set format and is an open discussion so this is just food for thought, we will talk about whatever ;)

February 2026 - Kansas City 2600

 Greetings all!

The Kansas City 2600 Will be meeting at 6pm 2/6/2026 at the Oak Park Mall Barnes and Noble coffee shop!  We have a channel on the SecKC Discord if you would like to coordinate or ask questions.  

See you there!

Happy New year! - Kansas City 2600 - January 2026 Meeting

For the start of the new year I would like people to bring with them ideas on what kinds of things we can do to inspire conversations and services that you might find useful!  Please join us on January 2nd 2026 at 6pm at the Overland park mall Barnes and noble coffee shop and share your ideas!

December kc2600 meeting gift exchange!

Yo! For the December meeting we are doing a white elephant gift exchange! And a vote on most 31337 gift!  6 pm December 5th 2025 @ overland park oak park mall barnes and noble coffee shop.

November 7th KC 2600 meeting

For November we will be discussion home manufacturing, making and art projects.

Food for thought:

• Sources of inspiration
• Hackable, Open source friendly technologies
• Round table discussion on gift ideas and useful projects
• Cloud control, Pay walls, copy rights and DRM in art and manufacturing platforms 

October 2025 kc2600 meeting - ai edition

The KC2600 meeting will meet at the Oak Park mall at 6pm this Friday, October 3rd. 

Meeting topic theme: 

The AI Arms Race: Defense and Offense with Generative AI

Things to think about:

• Story time: (For giggles) At a high level from the lense of mass media
• What kinds of dooms day offensive things have been predicted.
• What kinds of overly complex AI defenses have been proposed
• At a practical level (Practical ai tools for infosec work/play, red team/blue team)
• At a personal level (show and tell)
• Resources discussion: (Feed the hungry hackers) finding training, software, models and hardware.

September 2025 KC 2600 meeting

Greetings all!  Please join us at Oak park all in overland park, KS this Friday September, 5th 2025 at 6pm.  We will be discussing current events, Info Sec projects and other topics.

Things to think about.

• In the last nine months Russia has been forcing people off of foreign controlled applications and making them use state controlled applications like "Max" using their control over internet infrastructure to degrade competition.  Given our movement to using SAAS and cloud infrastructure, how does this affect you as an individual to have that risk?
• The current US administration has done a radical 360 policy spin on privacy and information security norms with talk of "hacking back".  How would this impact you or people you know if this trend continues?
• How are people dealing with the recent increases in deportation activity, how is this being addressed by the immigrant community?
• Multiple countries have made efforts to drag private business into the international espionage realm.  How do you think this impacts over all risk of your company or employer if current political trends continue?

What things can we do personally to reduce our personal risk?  Does the cost of privacy and Operations Security factor into this? Eg. GnuPG is hard to use and many encryption and secure compute products are hard to use.  

August 2025 kc2600 meeting

 Hey all!  We will be meeting at Oak park mall in overland park at 6pm this Friday August 1st.  Bring your stories and projects!

July 2600?

 2600 happens to fall on July 4th.  Please hop on to the seckc discord #2600 to discuss alternate venues and topics!

June 2025 KC2600 meeting

 Greetings!  This Friday is the kc2600 meeting! We will be meeting at oak park mall at 6pm.

Kansas City 2600 May 2025 meeting

 Hey all!  KC2600 is meeting at Oak Park Mall at 6pm today May 2nd 2025.  

Bring your projects and infosec stories!  See you there!

Kc2600 April 2025

 Greetings all, we will be meeting Friday April 4th 2025 at 6pm for the kc2600.  I will be out of town so I will see every one in May! -Asmo

Editorial 3/2025: Job seeking

A theme in local information security events such as SecKC and KC2600 is job hunting.  I have recommended several books and I figured I will put these online for people.  Also I would welcome this as a meeting topic, what are the top books you have read recently that have real value or meaning.

 

Books with value

(Dealing with jobs and people) 

• Carnegie, Dale, "How to win friends and influence people" ISBN 978-0671027032
• Bolles, Richard,  "What color is your parachute?" ISBN 978-1984861207
• Berne, Eric, "Games people play" ISBN 978-0345410030
• Horstman,  Mark "The Effective Manager" ISBN 987-1394181612

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(Dealing with tactics and leadership)

• art of war
• karl von koswits, on war
• book of 5 rings
• managing humans
• Phoenix Project 
• mythological man month

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(Theology)

• A brief history of God

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(Math / Science)

• How to lie with numbers
• discrete mathematics: mathematical reasoning and proof with puzzles patterns and games 
• Einsteins universe
  

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(Sociology/Media )

• Media virus
• Poverty by america
• Anthony Kozol - Amazing grace  

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(Law/Crime)

• Narconomics

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(Fiction)

• CS. Freedman - cold-fire trilogy
• Cryptonomicon
• Snowcrash
  
• Cory doctorow - all works
• Dune Series by Frank Herbert
• Blame manga
• Shiro Matsume - Ghost in the shell
• Philip K. Dick - do androids electric sheep dream, we can remember it for you for wholesale
• Aldus Huxley -brave new world

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(Periodicals)

• 2600 The hacker quarterly