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  1. 2600 Appeal Rejected

    Yro · Court · · posted by michael · from the down-but-not-out dept. · 272 comments
    blankmange writes "Wired is reporting that 2600's appeal has been rejected by a federal appeals court. "The Second Circuit Court of Appeals said in a one-line ruling that it was not going to revisit an earlier decision in which 2600 was found to be unlawfully distributing a DVD-descrambling utility. In January 2000, eight movie studios sued the legendary hacker quarterly for posting the DeCSS.exe utility, which decodes DVDs and allows them to be viewed on a Linux computer." The magazine now has 90 days to file a Supreme Court appeal." The Appeals court did not have to take the case, and they didn't. 2600 can appeal to the Supreme Court, but they don't have to take the case either - it's looking more and more as though Kaplan's ruling will stand.

  2. Hackers At Large, August 10-12

    Announcements · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the build-a-better-mousetrap dept. · 63 comments
    Leto writes: "Eight years ago, at HEU'93 we stressed the importance of Internet for the masses. Four years ago, at HIP'97, we pointed out the emerging security problems. This year, it is time to sound the alarms about decaying privacy and emerging security problems. What do you get when you gather the Dutch Hacktic veterans, The German CCC, The Bay Area Cypherpunks, The 2600 people, The EFF and the cryptography and security experts from all over the world? A Hackers At Large 2001." (More announcement follows.)

    "HAL2001 is a camping event on campus of the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Connected with 15km UTP, 2km fiber, 50 wireless base stations and a 1GB uplink, we're providing 3000 people with probably the most stable hostile network ever.

    "Talk to the experts on IPsec, IPv6, Multicast, and be part of the largest public deployment of IPsec and DNSSEC. There will be talks and workshops about GSM security, AI, Lawful and unlawful interception, digital safes, bank security, copy protection, biometrics, IP allocation, intellectual property and anonymity and even an RSI workshop.

    "If you can truly celebrate the Internet and embrace new technologies, without forgetting your responsibility to tell others that new technologies come with new risks to the individual and to society as a whole, then this is the place to be this summer."

  3. There is Still H.O.P.E

    Developers · Announcements · · posted by michael · from the pre-pre-pre-beta dept. · 1 comment
    Wilto writes: "Emmanuel, of 2600 fame, has announced yet another H.O.P.E conference. The following is an excerpt from the official H2K mailing list. 'H2K2 will be held Friday, July 12 to Sunday, July 14, 2002 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. We will have close to 50,000 square feet to work with as opposed to the last conference which had closer to 12,000 square feet. This is an enormous space and we need to start planning on the best way to use it.' For more info, see www.h2k2.net and, naturally 2600.org." Subscribe to the h2k2 mailing list by sending "subscribe h2k2" to majordomo@2600.com.