{"id":1708,"date":"2013-08-04T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T15:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2013-08-08T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T17:25:37","slug":"bricnic-cryptoparty-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/04\/bricnic-cryptoparty-today\/","title":{"rendered":"BRICnic &#038; Cryptoparty Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today various groups come together for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/197863173706689\/\">BRICnic<\/a>,\u00a0a protest and picnic in front of the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, or BRIC. \u00a0The BRIC is where local, state and federal law enforcement coordinate their surveillance of activities they deem threatening, whether terrorists or non-violent protesters.<\/p>\n<p>The BRICnic starts at 2pm and goes until 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>At 4pm, various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/549769355088618\/?fref=ts\">people will speak on the issue of government surveillance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At 5pm, Quartermaster Steve will run a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/497106653704372\/?fref=ts\">Cryptoparty<\/a>. Since people will be outdoors, the plan is to keep things informal. Actors (like the NSA) have a lot of ways to surveil us. BRICnic attendees are encouraged to talk about what kinds of surveillance people are most concerned about, and strategies for thwarting those surveillance attempts.<\/p>\n<p>It will be held in the park across the street from the Ruggles street entrance to the Boston Police Department headquarters at\u00a0One Schroeder Plaza,\u00a0Boston. \u00a0The closest MBTA stop is the Ruggles\u00a0Orange line station. \u00a0If you&#8217;re driving in, there is public parking nearby at the Northeastern University Visitor&#8217;s lot at 10 Gainsborough St &#8211; Boston, MA 02115.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we will be holding another Cryptoparty on August 24th at e5 in Boston. \u00a0Feel free to use the comments below to offer any topics you would like us to cover in future Crytoparties. \u00a0Suggestions for locations for future Cryptoparties are much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today various groups come together for a\u00a0BRICnic,\u00a0a protest and picnic in front of the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, or BRIC. \u00a0The BRIC is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-out-and-about","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kids4thAmendment.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-ry","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}