HOPE Conference Gets Wozniak, Mitnick, Biafra

Emmanuel Goldstein writes "We've gone through all of our submissions, and selected nearly 70 talks and panels for the next HOPE conference in New York City, to be held from July 9th-11th. We have Steve Wozniak, Kevin Mitnick, and Jello Biafra as keynotes, and many more interesting talks and seminars, plus a round the clock hacker movie room and a lockpicking workshop." The official website explains: " This is a conference by, for, and about hackers on as many levels as we can come up with, ranging from the highly technical to the down to earth, from computers to phones, from serious to hilarious. And our doors are open to anyone interested in what the hacker world has to say." We previously ran a story on this conference a couple of months back, before full speaker details were available.

Comments

Warning... funny name posse...

[Fnkmaster]

Lessee, Woz - greak hacker, check. Mitnick - great hacker/cracker, check. Jello Biafra - founding member of the funny name posse, where he is joined by other people who get an inordinate number of speaking gigs relative to their qualifications, like American McGee, Simpson Garfinkle, and Jennifer 8. Lee. Hmm, I thought geeks were supposed to be smart enough to judge people on their actual merits, not the marketing they do of their name cum public identity. Blah, ridiculous stuff like this makes me lose faith in humanity.

Re:Warning... funny name posse...

[madprof]

Mitnick is not a great hacker/cracker when it came to computer systems, but a great social engineer. He had more balls than a lot of people.
When it came to breaking in he...knew how to compile programs and move files about certainly.
Frankly he was a pain in the rear to loads of people with his pointless activities. He advanced hacking zilch, he gave nothing to anyone, except a bad name.

Woohoo! They're looking at the AS/400!!!

[j3ll0]

Seriously people, the AS/400 architecture, and the overlying OS/400 operating system is one of the nicest pieces of engineering you'll find.

They've been doing 'the file system is a database' since before Bill and Co were in long pants.

If you get a chance to catch that lecture, and have your x86-oriented mind blown away.

That lecture will probably not be performed by Jello, even though he blows minds for a living

Re:jello

[Flounder]

KD rocks

Let's hear it for Lesbian Country!!

Video Recordings and Transcripts

[afriguru]

I've said it more than once that it's a good idea if the proceedings of such meetings can be made available in video, audio and transcript form. A lot of free 'geek documentation' gets lost when conferences like this only choose to cater for those who actually attend.

what's your point?

[RMH101]

i doubt many corporation's IS managers fancy sending their staff on any trips that go anywhere near the H word. whether that's right or wrong's another matter, but the OP's point was perfectly valid, not a "stupid comment".

Oh no, someone call ESR quick!!

[autopr0n]

Looks like people are "misusing" the word hacker again! Someone better let ESR know so he can stop all this nonsense!

Note: that was sarcasm.

What's Jello doing there?

[OakLEE]

No offense to Jello--I'm a great Jello fan (see sig)--but what exactly is the point of having him speak at a hacking convention? He'd be great on a number of issues, but I fail to see what he adds here.

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Re:11am on Sunday, Area B

[Anonymous Coward]

Jason, you rock!

Textfiles.com is one of the best things on the internet! Cant wait for the BBS documentary. :-)

-A fan