Posted by
michael
on from the fanboys-rejoice dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The next HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference will feature Steve Wozniak as one of the keynotes according to conference organizers at
2600. Mitnick's also got a keynote spot, and there's more to be announced."
Mitnick is best known for his social engineering skills. Pick up a copy of "The Art of Deception" and you'll see what I mean. The Social Engineering panel is the highlight of any HOPE convention.
Mitnick was also made into a martyr when he was held for over five years without so much as a bail hearing (not that he'd get it for being a flight risk, but a hearing is due process just the same).
The commonly-held explaination for Mitnick being in such lockdown is that he would still be able to con people, even fears of Mitnick launching nuclear attacks by dialing the right phone number and whistling.
-- Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
I'm afraid I have to disagree
by
ptomblin
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Some people have talked about what a great speaker Woz is. I saw him speak to the local Apple Users Group (AppleCIDER) and he's got a lot of stories about his interesting experiences and living in interesting times, but he is a BORING speaker. If he ever comes back to get to the topic he was supposed to talk about instead of wandering all over the map, I'd gladly go back, but I don't really want to hear a litany of all the mini-computers he redesigned on paper, saving a whole 5 capacitors.
-- The next Cmdr Taco duplicate will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
Real hackers were calling themselves hackers back when to most people "hacker" either meant someone who drove a taxi or who was a poor golfer.
Real hackers don't find themselves overly pressured by societies "negative perjorative labels". While there is remorse that the general public has adopted the negative view of the term, there is no single word that better describes what a hacker does for the sheer joy of doing it. A real hacker doesn't particularly care if he is accepted or not by those who are ignorant of what a real hacker actually is.
Real hackers won't stop calling themselves hackers. It is what they were before the media ever caught onto the word, and for them to relenquish the title merely on account of how the word is perceived by people who are merely ignorant of the truth is to sacrifice some of the very spirit that drives them to achieve and makes them what they are.
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If you ever get a chance to hear Woz speak, by all means GO!
He has hundreds of great stories. You will not be disappointed.
I would love to get a Woz blue box. Sure it wouldn't work but it would be a work of art.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Wozniak? Wonder what he thinks of Apple these days. I'll bring down my old Apple ][ and see if he'll autograph my duodisk.
What would his speach be about?
Mitnick is best known for his social engineering skills. Pick up a copy of "The Art of Deception" and you'll see what I mean. The Social Engineering panel is the highlight of any HOPE convention.
Mitnick was also made into a martyr when he was held for over five years without so much as a bail hearing (not that he'd get it for being a flight risk, but a hearing is due process just the same).
The commonly-held explaination for Mitnick being in such lockdown is that he would still be able to con people, even fears of Mitnick launching nuclear attacks by dialing the right phone number and whistling.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Some people have talked about what a great speaker Woz is. I saw him speak to the local Apple Users Group (AppleCIDER) and he's got a lot of stories about his interesting experiences and living in interesting times, but he is a BORING speaker. If he ever comes back to get to the topic he was supposed to talk about instead of wandering all over the map, I'd gladly go back, but I don't really want to hear a litany of all the mini-computers he redesigned on paper, saving a whole 5 capacitors.
The next Cmdr Taco duplicate will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
Real hackers were calling themselves hackers back when to most people "hacker" either meant someone who drove a taxi or who was a poor golfer.
Real hackers don't find themselves overly pressured by societies "negative perjorative labels". While there is remorse that the general public has adopted the negative view of the term, there is no single word that better describes what a hacker does for the sheer joy of doing it. A real hacker doesn't particularly care if he is accepted or not by those who are ignorant of what a real hacker actually is.
Real hackers won't stop calling themselves hackers. It is what they were before the media ever caught onto the word, and for them to relenquish the title merely on account of how the word is perceived by people who are merely ignorant of the truth is to sacrifice some of the very spirit that drives them to achieve and makes them what they are.
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