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A New HOPE on the Horizon

Posted by michael on from the what-else-are-you-doing-this-weekend dept.

double-oh three writes "It's an even numbered year, and that means that 2600 is holding the party again this summer. The 5th HOPE conference has been announced and scheduled for July 9th to 11th(a Friday-Sunday weekend), again at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. This year's 'theme' for the conference is Propaganda, and if this is anything like H2k2, it'll be by the phone companies. And for those of you who are clueless, here's a roundup of the last HOPE con."

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  1. 2600 and BART by Loconut1389 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My favorite thing about 2600 was their use of bart system, put in bart ticket, meet in the station underground, go back home, and go out the same terminal you came in, pay no fare total because you "travelled no distance". I thought that was slick.

  2. Watch out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    These sorts of things are illegal under the current anti-terrorism laws.

  3. New Slashdot Poll: The 2600 Terrorists by Wacky_Wookie · · Score: 4, Funny

    How long do you think it will take the Dept. of Home Land Insecurity to declare HOPE a gathering of terrorists?

    1) 2-4 Hours

    2) 24-48 Hours

    3) 1 Week

    4) Sometime before the USA lands on Mars

    5) As soon as Dubya has his mourning coffee

    6) Time is a man made concept you insensitive clod!

  4. A New Hope? by Ubergrendle · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was 99% sure this was going to be a Star Wars thread...

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    John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
  5. Social Engineering Panel by dr_dank · · Score: 4, Interesting

    By far, the biggest draw of the HOPE conventions over the years is the Social Engineering panel.

    Just watching illustrating what Mitnick wrote about in Art of Deception displayed before a live audience is well worth the price of admission.

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    Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
    1. Re:Social Engineering Panel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      > By far, the biggest draw of the HOPE conventions over the years is the Social Engineering panel.

      Bah! That was easily outstripped by the Antisocial Engineering panel.

      "Does anyone have any questions?"

      "Yes. I'd like to kno..."

      "Fuck you, tubby! NEXT!"

  6. Have fun, kids by Otter · · Score: 4, Insightful
    And for those of you who are clueless, here's a roundup of the last HOPE con.

    And for those of you who are over 14, it's time to start applying your meager skills towards doing something useful with your life instead of writing "manifestos" denouncing the phone companies for stifling your creativity and fawning over some relic who exploited a default root password in 1986.

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  7. Re:Hackers suck. by pantycrickets · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hacker culture really does suck. A bunch of pasty-faced smelling fat t-shirt wearing beer stained straight edge libertarian or obnoxious green pedophiles come together to explore how many ways they can produce the same buffer overflow and call it brilliance.

    Yeah, DefCon is just like that. A bunch of guys in a conference room.. gang-raping children, tossing beer all about, but not actually drinking it, for moral reasons.. and then having a big circle jerk when they discover new buffer overflows. They might all be dressed up like Adolf Hitler.. just for good measure.

    Seriously.. what the hell are you talking about?

    2600, the pedophile quarterly