Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2024-01-08 The meeting was called to order at 19:35 by colclark. In attendance were Student keyholders: aabreu, amigdal, colclark, jmvidal, psvenk, rgabriel, ryang2, turino14, xy Associate keyholders: '() Members: guoj1112, scj643, vex, zerykier Guests: '() Administrivia: colclark: Hello, everyone. Welcome to SIPB 2024 baby. We had 5 people show up to the Christmas meeting, which was only 27 seconds. Round of applause for that. [applause] colclark: People saw the email from Joel S asking about lunch. Is anyone interested? [several]: Yes colclark: I will write him and tell him that we will bring people. scj643: As long as it's not on the 30th. vex: In 2016 or so, I was really interested in the prospects of a free and open Internet, and the Tor network in particular. With another friend and SIPB alum efjepsen, we were able to get rackmount space in the Media Lab to set up a Tor exit node. This is a lot more hardcore than running a relay since you expose yourselves to a lot more. We ran a Tor exit node at the Media Lab for four years, but eventually the Media Lab director resigned because of Jeffrey Epstein. I emailed the director of IS&T, and he was so nice; he gave us a rack for the Boston Internet Exchange, which is where Boston's Internet comes through (they have armed guards and all). Our Tor node has grown to be #1 in the US and #5 in the world for traffic, and 2% of all worldwide Tor traffic goes through our exit node. It's pretty intense sometimes to administer, with nation-states sometimes trageting us. I'm currently a PhD student and will be hopefully graduating this year, so I wanted to ask if this mission still aligns with SIPB's philosophy, and if SIPB would like to work with me on this / if anyone would like to help (since I'm the last student working on this). amigdal: If people are interested, what should they do? vex: Contact me, I guess. ryang2: If we want to contact you, where would we do that? vex: vex@mit.edu psvenk: Is SIPB still running a relay? amigdal: There used to be a SIPB Tor project; I believe it is currently dormant. psvenk: Why aren't you a keyholder? vex: I guess it would be fun to. I think the bar used to be higher. colclark: Should we make it a SIPB project? psvenk: Do we need to vote on that? colclark: No, there appears to be consensus in favor of making it a SIPB project. guoj1112: [adds it to project list whiteboard] psvenk: What's the exit node called? vex: There are actually five, because we're limited to a single core on each. But you can go to the Tor Project website and look for the top American exit node. vex: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/flag:exit%20 vex: RandomRecipes is the nickname. colclark: Are you on Mattermost? vex: No colclark: Talk to psvenk about that post-meeting. rgabriel: Motion to allocate $20 for the renewal of the interstellar.live domain name. psvenk: Seconded [passes with 8 in favor, 1 against] colclark: The EC elections have been moved to January 29. Be there. psvenk: Don't be square. colclark: What's wrong with squares? psvenk: Squares are square. colclark: innaavo was going to give a cybersecurity cluedump this Wednesday, but she is injured and now unable to give it. scj643: What time? colclark: psvenk, you know everything, right? psvenk: Yes, I do know everything. psvenk: It is at 18:00. scj643: I can't do it then. colclark: Can anyone monologue about the RSA Wikipedia page for an hour? scj643: I can't talk about RSA specifically, but I can talk about security. rgabriel: We could replace it with the 6.042 lecture about RSA. colclark: Is that a volunteer to do such a thing? rgabriel: No colclark: Ok, looks like we're cancelling it. scj643: I can talk about public key infrastructure. colclark: If you can do that, are you down? scj643: Yeah, I can do that. psvenk: Also, colclark, you will be taking care of the food, right? colclark: Yes. Project Reports: scj643: Hashicorp Vault allows us to have secrets instead of giving people papers and having them eat them. colclark: [adds it to project list whiteboard] scj643: It also has support for YubiKey emulation for two-factor authentication. scj643: Another project proposal is Netbox for inventory management. colclark: AFS continues. colclark: SIPB Discord actually started for real this time. I know I've said "for real this time" at least five times now. rgabriel: Matrix continues. It turns out that the Matrix-to-Mattermost bridge went down for a bit. I plan to work on class group chats over IAP. ryang2: Hyades continues. aabreu: DormDigest continues. We have a meeting on Sunday. psvenk: Hydrant and CourseRoad continue. jmvidal: HWOPS continues. Meetings resume this Friday. Other: aabreu: Anyone here in web.lab? How much of React router do they cover? I'm doing an online course and don't know if I should stop. colclark: They don't cover it. You should do the online course. Other Other: guoj1112: The end of IAP is sooner than you think. colclark: 2025 is sooner than you think. colclark: The 2024 presidential elections are sooner than you think. psvenk: In many countries! India, Bangladesh, [redacted]… Oops, I wasn't supposed to call that last one a country. But they're holding their presidential elections this year. The meeting was adjourned at 20:04. Minutes taken and submitted by psvenk.