Last "Hackers On Planet Earth" Conference In July

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Last H.O.P.E. ('Hackers on Planet Earth') Conference is set for July 18-20, 2008, at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. The organizers have announced their supplemental speaker list, adding on to the initial list. Topics will include 'Crafting a Security-Enhanced Wikipedia,' 'VoIP (in)security: Italians Do It Better,' 'AntiSocial Networking: Vulnerabilities in Social Nets,' 'SWF and the Malware Tragedy,' 'Simulating the Universe on Supercomputers,' and my personal favorite, 'RIAA Litigations: How the Tech Community Can Help.'"

Comments

2007?

[DavidJSimpson]

The "Last" conference is set for last year? Ironic.

Re:2007?

[NoobixCube]

Only a genuine diamond will suffice. Using a cheap imitation never ends well.

Re:2007?

[Mooga]

Well, time to pull out the DeLorean...

2007?

[QUILz]

Sigh, I really don't feel like shifting that old time machine I got from eBay out from the basement.

This one's obvious

[moderatorrater]

'RIAA Litigations: How the Tech Community Can Help.' By turning ourselves in, of course. Also, not hiring lawyers and poking holes in their strategy.

Re:This one's obvious

[Teckla]

People could try, you know, not committing copyright infringement...

Re:This one's obvious

[skeeto]

You say that like copyright infringement has something to do with the RIAA lawsuit selection process.

Re:This one's obvious

[somersault]

just cause something is illegal doesn't mean it's wrong That is perfectly true, but just because you want something to be legal doesn't make it right. Do you think that authors shouldn't be able to try to enforce the copyright on their books, or artists shouldn't be able to enforce copyright on their digital photos? Suddenly just because you can copy something with trivial effort, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Don't get me wrong, I've done it too, but if I like a band then I will buy their album because they deserve recognition and support. All too many tight arse bastards would just copy their music and leave it at that.

On the Speakers list..

[handmedowns]

H.G. Wells - Time Travel
Stephen Hawking - WormHoles
Kdawson - ADHD and how it affects an editor

Re:On the Speakers list..

[_xeno_]

Don't forget the Doctor and his keynote speech on using a sonic screwdriver to break into any computer system ever created.

Re:On the Speakers list..

[gbobeck]

In the words of Dalek professors... "Elaborate! Elaborate! Elaborate!..."

Radio Statler

[double-oh three]

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.

Re:Radio Statler

[certron]

Aside from the radio station, there will be other projects, such as the NOC NOC (none of our concern network operations center, a coat check for servers), and the Attendee Metadata project, which seeks to use 2.4GHz OpenBeacon tags to track all the attendees. http://www.thelasthope.org/projects.php#rfid They need some volunteers for this project, actually, so if you have some microcontroller skills, drop them a line at projects at hope.net

This looks like it will be a great conference, I'm looking forward to attending.

RIAA Litigations: How the Tech Community Can Help

[John Hasler]

Set up honeypots to entrap the RIAA into sending bogus notices. Thoroughly document this and make the results available to those defending themselves against RIAA suits (and to those pursuing class action suits against the RIAA).

Also try to trick them into breaking into and/or DOSing bittorent trackers (preferably ones not being used to infringe any RIAA copyrights).

OMG! They can hack TIME!!

[XMode]

Conference is set for July 18-20, 2007, at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.

So this was last year then?

The "Last HOPE", not the last "HOPE"

[QMalcolm]

They have been VERY careful about not explicitly saying that this is the final hope. They are just calling this year's conference "The Final Hope".

Re:The "Last HOPE", not the last "HOPE"

[Repton]

If they have to restart in a new venue, they could call the next one "A New HOPE"...

Re:The "Last HOPE", not the last "HOPE"

[DeathB]

Right before The Last HOPE was announced, Vornado Realty Trust announced that they were tearing down the Hotel Pennsylvania before 2010 (when the next HOPE presumably would be). While there are certainly other venues in NYC, finding one the size of the space HOPE has in the Hotel Penn at a price that HOPE could be under $100 has appeared pretty hopeless.

Let's do the Time Warp Again!

[db32]

It's just a jump to the left...
And a damned bad editor...
I mean really...I am disappointed with the hacking community now big time. Master time travel and all you can come up with is hold a conference complaining about things? Paradox be damned its worth it to try and fix the unmitigated disasters in freedom that have been going on the last 20 years or so.

Nah, get the trackers to help...

[Anonymous Coward]

The trackers just need to start giving them some fake peers. Maybe give them ONLY fake peers if they're the one guy who has 800 torrents, but which isn't sharing...

Re:Bad summary: 2007 vs. 2008

[Spy der Mann]

There is an obvious time wrap in the summary. Or a Time Warp in the conference. You decide.

Movie Sequel

[ratguy]

'SWF and the Malware Tragedy'

Sounds like a sequel to 'The Net'.

Re:Where will the next one be ?

[DeathB]

But seriously, now that Hotel Pennsylvannia will be turned into millionaire's housing, maybe this thing can be moved to a cheaper and more accessible part of the country. Especially in light of the economy, we should focus on a place that is central and is a big Greyhound hub. Having everyone all camp out might be a bit of a stretch, So it's not cheap, but more accessible and more of a Greyhound hub than NYC? Does such a place actually exist? NY has 3+ airports, good connections by bus and train and is central for the East Coast (which has half of the US population). Even the center of US population is right around the Mississippi.

Perhaps some people could get together to organize a complementary conference, to be held in January (cheaper travel and most time separation from the real Hope). I suggest we put it in some place like Albequerque or Los Cruces, which might be bearable at that time of year, and is generally cheap. There are alot of hacker conferences in the US other than Defcon (Las Vegas) and HOPE (although those are the two biggest). Off the top of my head there is also Summercon (Atlanta), Notacon (Cleveland), Schmoocon (DC), Carolinacon (NC), and ToorCon (San Diego). Further abroad there is the Chaos Computer Camp in Germany. Obviously you can go off and start your own, but I'd take a careful look around first.