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Come to NYC on July 18-20, http://x.hope.net/ at the Hotel Pennsylvania, just across the street from Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.

Tickets are only $120 for all three days.

This year's keynote is Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame.

If you want to see what real hackers are about, come on down to H.O.P.E. this year, http://www.hope.net./ We're just a short walk away from the New York Times at the Hotel Pennsylvania.

See you there!

One can only H.O.P.E. http://www.hope.net/

Poster didn't look thouroughly. Have a look here: http://radio.hope.net/archive.html

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              work, do just that (work) under whatever circumstances. I'm not NEW to rentacoder, but am finally looking to get serious with it.

High Bandwidth: http://radio.hope.net/internet-highbw.pls
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Internal (if you're at HOPE): http://radio.hope.net/internal-highbw.pls

â"Arca
Programming Manager
Radio Statler!

High Bandwidth: http://radio.hope.net/internet-highbw.pls
Low Bandwidth: http://radio.hope.net/internet-lowbw.pls
Internal (if you're at HOPE): http://radio.hope.net/internal-highbw.pls

â"Arca
Programming Manager
Radio Statler!

High Bandwidth: http://radio.hope.net/internet-highbw.pls
Low Bandwidth: http://radio.hope.net/internet-lowbw.pls
Internal (if you're at HOPE): http://radio.hope.net/internal-highbw.pls

â"Arca
Programming Manager
Radio Statler!

For those of you that can't attend, there will be an internet radio station (which I am helping put together) from and about the conference (details here: http://radio.hope.net/ ), with interviews and news and other bits from the con.

There was a talk about this at the most recent HOPE conference by the head of Toool. The audio is avalable for download (128kbps, 16kbps).Toool also has a paper on the subject.

On the subject of Rambam check out previous talks given at HOPE conferences. He's a good speaker and quite interesting on the topic of information availability. He stated a couple of weeks ago in an interview leading up to this conference's talk that he had planed to do the same basic presentation at the last hope but the "victim" got cold feet at the last moment after he realized just how much information was available and threatened to sue. If you listen to the old presentations he does make a point that almost any information is available legally but it is more difficult to get it legally than illegally. I have to believe from hearing him speak several time that what he would have done for this presentation would at least to be best of his knowledge been legal.

Four previous presentations.

Privacy - Not What It Used To Be
http://www.the-fifth-hope.org/mp3/privacy.mp3

Databases and Privacy
http://h2k2.hope.net/media/databases.mp3

Information on the Masses with Steve Rambam.
http://h2k.hope.net/post/panels/h2kinfo.mp3

Info for Masses
ftp://ftp.2600.com/pub/oth/beyondh/nfo4mses.ra

On the subject of Rambam check out previous talks given at HOPE conferences. He's a good speaker and quite interesting on the topic of information availability. He stated a couple of weeks ago in an interview leading up to this conference's talk that he had planed to do the same basic presentation at the last hope but the "victim" got cold feet at the last moment after he realized just how much information was available and threatened to sue. If you listen to the old presentations he does make a point that almost any information is available legally but it is more difficult to get it legally than illegally. I have to believe from hearing him speak several time that what he would have done for this presentation would at least to be best of his knowledge been legal.

Four previous presentations.

Privacy - Not What It Used To Be
http://www.the-fifth-hope.org/mp3/privacy.mp3

Databases and Privacy
http://h2k2.hope.net/media/databases.mp3

Information on the Masses with Steve Rambam.
http://h2k.hope.net/post/panels/h2kinfo.mp3

Info for Masses
ftp://ftp.2600.com/pub/oth/beyondh/nfo4mses.ra

A few weeks ago I attended the Fifth HOPE conferenece in New York City. While I was there, I saw Steven Rambam, a private investigator and former federal agent, give a presentation entitled "Privacy: It Ain't What It Used to Be." A better title would have been "Privacy is Already Dead."

He started out by asking if anybody in the room (about 200+ tin-foil-hat wearing hackers) had ever heard of Seisent. Not a single hand went up, and he seemed to be genuinely suprised and disturbed by this.

He made a very good point repeatedly throughout his presentation: we shouldn't be worried because Government has this data on us; no, we should be terrified because private corporations that don't even answer to the government have this data. And it's not just limited to name, address and telephone number: criminal records, addresses of residence, education, employers, telephone calls, magazine subscriptions, travel records, television viewing habits (if you have cable), internet downloads, gun ownership and voting records. Yes voting records - they know if you voted and what party you registered under.

Suffice to say, these guys should be the household name, not the RIAA. Why does the media focus on the MPAA et al and their paltry lawsuits and not these guys?!?

So I changed my sig to read "What is Seisint?" and I tell everyone I know about them.

Some have responded to me with ambivalence. "What's the big deal?" "Meh, they have the data, there's nothing we can do about it." I'm not sure how to respond to people like that except with "the dumber you are the happier you are" or something.

What could they do with that data? Use your imagination, stupid.

Rambam finished by giving a live demonstration of a smaller database of individual information that he owns (derived mostly public records). He demonstrated how quickly you could compile information on any random person with just their SSN - as it turned out, the "victim" he took from the audience was already a real victim of identity theft. The query took less that 10 seconds. It was pretty amazing / disturbing.

During the Q&A portion of the presentation, several audience members asked what they could do to "get out" of the database. Rambam replied that there was nothing we could do: the data was now the property of this one private company - even the data that was collected from State governments (Aside from being one of the egregiou privacy invasions in human history, it was also one of the most gernerous corporate subsidizations ever).

Rambam did say one thing we could do: "Vote, vote, vote." Private corporations have too many protections and powers compared to individuals, and Government is the only way to change that.

The final questioner for the session had a very +5 Insightful comment on what everyone in the audience should do just in case the voting didn't work out:

"Buy, and learn how to use, a rifle."

The audience response to this comment was, of course, thunderous applause.

I got egg on my face when I took my laptop with shiny new wireless nic to H2K2 last summer. They had a NOC with both wired and 802.11b networks where I met up with some PSU alums.

Within a matter of minutes, my laptops caps/num lock lights flashed and the machine shut down. Turns out that sendmail (which I left on like a dumbass) was overflowed to a root console, where the leet script kiddy typed halt to shut off my laptop.

Wasn't an all-out attack, but a lesson learned. Now I'm much more consciencious about keeping rpms up to date and keeping unnecessary services from running.

Lock picking? Hacking? Spies? Social Engeering (my favorite)? :> Complete audio archives of previous HOPE conferances are available at Hope2000 and BeyondHope. The 2600 radio program 'Off the Hook' airs each Wednesday at 7pm EST on the web here (I recommend the WBAI live steam) or in the New York City area on member supported WBAI 99.5FM. I also went to the conference this year (and the previous ones as I live just over the tunnel in NJ) and thought it was fantastic. My friends and I are still winding down from what was a VERY long weekend of panels by day and kicks at night...

Lock picking? Hacking? Spies? Social Engeering (my favorite)? :> Complete audio archives of previous HOPE conferances are available at Hope2000 and BeyondHope. The 2600 radio program 'Off the Hook' airs each Wednesday at 7pm EST on the web here (I recommend the WBAI live steam) or in the New York City area on member supported WBAI 99.5FM. I also went to the conference this year (and the previous ones as I live just over the tunnel in NJ) and thought it was fantastic. My friends and I are still winding down from what was a VERY long weekend of panels by day and kicks at night...

Frankly, I think that having said coding skills and sense of purpose tends to come about from having that "specific kind of attitude". I do respect L0pht/CDC and their hacking skills. I think they have all of the hacker qualities you mention. Just listen to talk they gave at Beyond Hope in 1997 regarding the theory behind the operation of L0phtcrack. (Here is the RealAudio talk.)