Current events

ISOC-NY holds frequent public meetings at NYU. Sign on to the announce list to stay informed.

• All meetings are open to the public
• Meetings are wheelchair accessible.
• Meetings are free

• If you plan to attend a meeting, please RSVP to president@isoc-ny.org or via Meetup.com.

ISOC-NY Event

ISOC-NY Event – Mar 25: Jinyang Li – Censorship Circumvention via Kaleidoscope

• What: Jinyang Li – Censorship Circumvention via Kaleidoscope
• Where: Rm. 1029, Warren Weaver Hall NYU, 250 Mercer St NYC
• When: Thursday Mar 25, 7:00pm,
• Who: Public Welcome. Admission Free.
• Sponsor: ISOC-NY

Jinyang Li has developed censorship circumvention software called Kaleidoscope that uses social networks to spread the word about anonymous proxies via a trusted social network.

This is part of her ongoing research into "exploiting the real world social relationships among users to improve the security and reliability of open distributed systems."

The software has two components, a Firefox plugin for the notifications, and a backend that creates the proxy server.

Her personal site: http://www.news.cs.nyu.edu/~jinyang/

Kaleidoscope download and dox: http://www.kspro.org/

She's written a paper about this: http://www.news.cs.nyu.edu/~jinyang/pub/kalei_iptps08.pdf

2010 planning meetings

ISOC-NY will be holding planning meetings on the following dates in early 2010:

• Feb 25 Mar 2
• Apr 1
• Apr 29

Being the last Thursday of each month except March, when we get put back a week. All at 6.30pm in Rm. 412.

• What: ISOC-NY Members meeting
• When: (As above) 6.30pm-8.00pm
• Where: Room 412, Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street NYC (SW corner of West 4th) (See note below)

• Note: Use the entrance on the west side since construction blocks the Mercer Street entrance. Must bring ID.

Past meetings

• Webcasts of earlier ISOC-NY events can be found here

• Previous minutes are here.