2600 Australia
"Hack to learn, not learn to hack"
Linux Australia has taken a stance against certain proposed changes as Australia prepares to enact harsh new "anti-circumvention" laws under the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement. They're trying to generate interest in hope of preventing laws being written which will allow copyright holders to bar legitimate use of copyright material.
A full summary of the changes and what you can do to help can be found at:
http://www.linux.org.au/law/.
Between March 1999 and November 2002, 2600 Australia brought together people interested in computer security, electronic gadgetry, communications, privacy, and technology exploration in general. In addition to bringing these people together with meetings, mailing lists and seminars, we spoke up on issues such as Internet Censorship, Cybercrime, DVD encryption, and many other issues. It goes without saying that in the course of this, we made many friends, and made many enemies. So be it - I'm sure we all had some fun at various times, and hopefully made a difference, however small.
Since then, by agreement of the caretakers, the site has been in "maintenance mode", meaning that no new content was to be added. This had no affect on things that had a life of their own, were developed elsewhere, or which found another home with the community that has developed around them. All of these are still referenced from this site, such as the meetings, the 2600 Magazine (which is produced in the US) and the 2600-list mailing lists.
In the future, it is highly likely that this site will live again, in a new form. It will still retain all of the information associated with its past, but will expand to include more information as Australia adapts to the coming technological waves.
2600 List
This is our main discussion mailing list for people interested in 2600 Australia, meetings, technology, computer security, internet censorship, online privacy etc. To prevent abuse, you will be asked to confirm your subscription with a follow-up email, and posts are only allowed from members of the list.
2600 Modlist
This list is identical to the above one in every regard except one - it's moderated. The raw contents of 2600-list get submitted for approval/disapproval to several moderators. These moderators will allow those messages through that have a "non-Google" question being answered, those that have a discussion that hasn't already been covered before, those that contain something that's considered "interesting" to the group as a whole, or those administration messages that will affect the operation of the list (ie maintenance, downtime etc). The moderators are only human, and hence the messages that get through may be delayed, and the moderation may be considered subjective. Whatever your opinion on this, the choice of what list you join remains yours. Want the raw, unmoderated list? Join 2600-list. Want things batched together? Join 2600-list-digest. Want a bit less traffic, and none of the rubbish or arguments? Join 2600-modlist.
2600 Network
A list to aggregate outage notices from ISPs and the like. Currently covering Connect.com.au, Telstra Internet, IINet. If there are others you would like added to this list, please email us at the address below... (though they need to have a mailing list we can get onto for this to be possible)
2600 Law
This list is intended to foster discussions regarding changes to laws around the world, but with a particular focus on Australia.