- A proposal was floated to run a Kickstarter campaign to physically decap and inspect a Qualcomm or other smartphone SoC to hunt for hardware backdoors.  
- Discussion of the practical and psychological barriers: limited public understanding of chip-level security and a prevailing sense of fatalism about surveillance.  
- Several paywalled biosensor and bio-electronics papers were retrieved via paperbot, covering topics such as electrochemical sensors, microfluidic chips, and integrated bio-interfaces.  
- Interest was expressed in establishing a formal biospace/hackerspace in San Francisco to reduce the 50-minute commute to the existing BioCurious facility in the Bay Area.  
- Participants weighed the trade-offs between using a personal garage for wet-lab work versus creating a dedicated, community-run lab space for more frequent experimentation.