While digging around in my picture archive on Windbringer, I found a handful of photographs from the White House hackathon held by the Internet Archive back in January of this year.  I ran a couple of searches and didn't find anything I wrote about what I worked on there (weird...) so here are the pictures I took when I wasn't coding.

A couple of weeks ago I announced that a cryptoparty would be held at HacDC in the first half of October. If you haven't been watching hashtags on Twitter, a cryptoparty is a party where people get together to eat pizza and learn how to install and use strong cryptographic software (like GnuPG and Truecrypt) safely. These parties began in Australia as a result of the government there passing a bill which requires mandatory recording and storage of all net.traffic, just in case someone living in Australia is doing anything illegal. Almost immediately cryptoparties began springing up around the …