# Summary of IRC Log from August 11, 2013

• A proposal was made for a Kickstarter project to decap (decapsulate) a Qualcomm or smartphone chip to examine it for potential backdoors, though it was noted that public awareness and interest in such technical security investigations might be limited.

• Several scientific papers were shared and accessed through paperbot related to biosensors and biotechnology, indicating ongoing research interest in these areas among channel participants.

• A discussion occurred about the challenges of accessing biohacking spaces, with one user mentioning that BioCurious (BC) was too far from San Francisco (50 minutes) and inquiring about interest in establishing a more accessible "biospace" in SF proper.

• A link was shared to a Quora post about the results of the first Thiel Fellowship class, which was noted as potentially interesting for the transhumanist community.

• The channel demonstrated active use of research tools including paperbot (for accessing scientific papers) and yoleaux (a utility bot with calculation and information retrieval capabilities).