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HOPE Conference Gets Wozniak, Mitnick, Biafra

Posted by simoniker on from the exotic-naming-conventions dept.

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.

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  1. 11am on Sunday, Area B by Jason+Scott · · Score: 4, Interesting

    See everyone there! I'll be speaking on "Saving Digital History: A Quick and Dirty Guide". Mention Slashdot to me for absolutely no special gift whatsoever. Catch you at the bar.

  2. I was planning to go... by byolinux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...but the US Government scaring me, and the cost involved prevents me from doing it.

    I hope to see people from HOPE/2600 out in Germany at Christmas though.

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  3. Doesn't seem to be hacking by FireFury03 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmm... looks more like cracking to me...

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  4. Indymedia? by SilveRo_kun · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Has Indymedia in the past been at Hacker Events?

  5. Re:jello by Chemicalscum · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "Um...no. I think you'll find that socialists and anarchists are two seperate groups. They havn't always seen eye-to-eye and to call radical socialists anarchists is ignorant."

    Libertarian socialists and left-wing communists are pretty much similar to anarchists as they both reject the state as a means of achieving their political objectives and aim for an anarchist society. Social democratic socialists and Leninist communists are not close to anarchists since they rely on the the strength of the state in its state capitalist and bureaucrat state capitalist forms to achieve their political objectives.

    Formally all Marxists in the long term aim for a stateless or anarchistic society - just that some of them seem to see it so far in the future, that all they are concerned with is trying to get control of state power now. The original dispute betweeen Marx and the socialists on the one hand and Bukunin and they anarchists on the other, in the First International, is to too complex to discuss in a short note. Does that clarify the differences?

  6. why Mitnick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    seriosuly. he is nothing more than a two bit punk (no punintended)
    he may have some credits to his name, but credit card fraud and hitting an agent upside the head with a garbage can is not exactly mad skills.

    he has no class, and his abilities arent anything to get excited about.

    they need to focus on the "other kevin"

    look him up. hes a character.