Open discussion on who we are

Something that has been asked is what we are about.  The 2600 magazine is more of a topical anchor which playfully embodies who we are.  But I would agree that the magazine is a hot mess and its hard to distill that message down into a good one liner answer.

In a nutshell this is what this meeting stands for:

Mission:

To empower and educate individuals about the importance of information freedom, ethical hacking, and responsible use of technology.

Vision:

We envision the world where information is freely accessible, and technology is used to enhance human potential and protect individual rights.

This is just a place where any one can stop by and share their thoughts on those matters.  That being said violent rhetoric or personal insults or behavior that disrupts this mission or does not observe the policies set by our venue isn't welcome.  This is a public forum and it is our intent to make this a chill and respectful place to talk and share our stories.

 

February 2021 Meeting

 Come one come all (or attend virtually), the February 2021 Kansas City 2600 meeting is meeting today(Feb 5th) at 6pm!

Topics:

• Job hunting round table
• Zettelkasten or building a 2nd brain (aka paper wiki)
  

We will be holding our normal meeting in meat space at Oak Park Mall in the Bookstore coffee shop.  In virtu meeting will be audio in Discord SecKC #2600_Meating.  (If you are not a part of seckc discord click here)  

At 16:30 CST According to Ax0n there is a national/international? Mozilla Hubs meeting, if your interested check it out.

Friday February 3rd 2017 KC 2600 meeting

Its about that time again!  Kansas City 2600 will be meeting at Oak Park Mall in the Barnes and Noble Coffee shop from around 5 to 7pm.   Stop by and hang with the hackers!

Great turn-out!

By my count, there were 12 people at the meeting last night. Not nearly a record, but the most we've seen at one meeting in quite a few months. I think there were three first-timers, too. It was great meeting you and we look forward to crossing paths again. As always, there were many good discussions on everything from encryption, steganography and programming to economics and geology.

I gave a quick demo on javascript malware analysis with some coding help from Andrew.

There are many places to find live samples of malware. I was using Malware Domain List. Use common sense, here. I can't stress enough that you should know what you are doing if you use any information on this page. I'd suggest using a virtual machine, the NoScript (or similar) plugin and/or a non-Windows operating system. Even still: no guarantees. Play safe, kids!

JSunpack can help you shake down certain kinds of packed javascript, and extract embedded files from it. Doesn't always work too well on heavily-obfuscated code, but can usually make better sense of it after you've got it looking more like javascript than a big array and a janky decode/eval function.

Most of the entry-level javascript malware de-obfuscation stuff I showed off at the meeting is covered in this round-up article on SANS ISC. You usually have to improvise, and obfuscated code is getting uglier and sneakier by the day, apparently.

Our next meeting will be on January 6th, and we may have a post-meeting chili supper at Chez ax0n, if I can get the misses to sign off on it.

January KC2600 Meeting - Delay it a week?

Due to 2600 Night falling on Jan. 1, several other 2600 chapters are considering bumping the meeting out one week, to fall on Jan. 8th. Some of us in KC are strongly considering it as well.

Give us your thoughts in the comments.