Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2016-05-16 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by dzaefn In attendance were Voting members: dzaefn, andersk, duffield, jlrubin | slz, csvoss Associate members: asedeno, asuhl, kenta Prospectives: srobin Guests: Administrivia: slz: Membership Election for Scott Robinson (srobin) at the end of the meeting. Allocation: $620 usb; 16 channel logic analyzer; 500 Megasample/sec; 100 MHz [motion to white ballot] request: setup documentation for hardware so people know this thing exists for people to use We'll have to be careful no one takes it with them No specifc plans to use it yet for a project, but would be helpful for reverse engineering, working with hardware (arduino, raspi) [motion passes] jlrubin: Motion to allocate 80 Raspberry PI zeroes for $5 each slz: may be a bit too much, 10 is a better number dzaefn: we should note we are a bit behind on our RFPs slz: we definitely have at least $4000 left jlrubin: you will need to buy sd cards slz: we do already have 5 raspi [motion fails] Ken: does any of the office heads have large harddrives slz: basically yes? The drives are setup on an LVM jharveyb: Motion to allocate $2,000 for a graphics card with 2GB memory. Nice to have card accessible, not for gaming for processing. slz: what would be setup of a gpu cluster jharveyb: 1-3 could fit inside one desktop ~~A Phone Call~~ It's Victor! Victor says this is literally the worst time to buy graphics cards, Nvidia is about to release a new model The new iMac will be arriving on Friday jlrubin: let's get a VR headset slz: let's do research and address it next meeting Project Reports: Duo Signup Party gave out about 45 Yubikeys and ~80 people showed up Duo are in the top/second to top shelf of some cabinet Email any questions comments concerns to William Navarre at the tech who is writing a column Other: '() Other Other: '() Membership Election of srobin: Scott is a senior studying 6.3, came to sipb this year, started the MIT Bug Bounty Program with IS&T asuhl: most fun bug? srobin: most of the other besides the one he can't say have been small dzaefn: how do you double space a cross site unicorn? srobin: I would press the spacebar twice between each word can you implement this in brainfuck? srobin: yes what is a word in brainfuck srobin: yes kenta: what has been some learning experiences in bug bounty management? Responsible behavior, etc. srobin: He found it's really hard to manage things when you're getting a huge amount of reports. When first started go 100 reports from people around the world and they couldn't keep track of them all. what do you know today that you didn't know a year ago today? srobin: Let me think...........I didn't know that one of the [REDACTED] name the storage medium which you've used which has the smallest capacity srobin: storage medium... digital data that is actual media srobin: a bit no, a physical object someone: a quarter jlrubin: favorite class srobin: 6.004 chris terman is an amazin guy andersk: which of these cards do you most identify as srobin: the social engineer the trojan horse the script kiddy the phisher someone: but if you work at twitter doesnt't that make you a social engineer jlrubin: can you explain the orgin of you being a truly singular person scott: I came in and I thought I'm going to write you a poem I just thought of right now. ``You are a truly singular person, and although now you experience this through pain someday that very same pain will be useful to you, because anything or anyone worth their space was forged through adversity. Your friend, Scott Perez'' ~Applause~ dzaefn: If you could append a direcretic to someones name, who? srobin: pronounces some people's name funny. Except Ray Hua. Whose name is pronounced the same. jlrubin: name five things hanging from the ceiling srobin: a dragon, the rings, nyan cat, astronaut, two dollar bill cubes lujan: select someone in the room, ask them a question they should know, but probably don't. but that you know the answer too. when they fail to answer the question ask them again. srobin asks him to repeat till he fails to say the qestion. jlrubin: what does it say on rms's door? srobin: defender of justice and hot ladies or something like that lujan: hanging from the ceiling are bell 2 and 3, why not bell 1 srobin: because it's too heavy slz: someone grab bell 1 and demonstrate jlrubin: show on the chart which spectrum is your favorite and why srobin: I do not know what these specturms are, i will choose at random. the C-band dzaefn: if nchinda was going to ask you a question, what would it be srobin: im not going to get into this one again andersk: how can we get more people as awesome as you srobin: can you tell me how awesome these people should be? andersk: at least half as awesome as you srobin: I came because of ray hua, so bring people along eric: outreach for sipb is important for me. say someone comes and you're the only one in the office and they ask 'what is sipb and how do i get invoved' what is your response srobin: I would probably say, sipb is involved with computing around campus, sipb is a place you an come to if you have questions, and if you want to get involved you can come to the office or zephyr [question not heard] srobin: I'm really interested in security stuff, MIT has a really old and a really large codebase and I don't think alot of people has touched it jlrubin: why would you say in your best approximation di you not get involved with sipb earlier srobin: i heard sipb could be overly harsh to people who don't know what they're doing. I think that being here now that is somewhat true, but still very much overwhelmingly the minority slz: please ask scott the question duffield: can i look up old minutes [andersk whispers to duffield what the Question is] duffiled: Scott, why do you want to be a sipb member? srobin: because he wants to help out and be involved and contribute to MIT slz: we will now proceed to the election part, non mmbers please leave meeting opened at 20:30 slz: Congratulations, Scott! You're now a SIPB member. The meeting was adjourned at 20:31. Minutes taken and submitted by nchinda2.