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Last "Hackers On Planet Earth" Conference In July

Posted by kdawson on from the springs-eternal dept.

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.'"

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  1. 2007? by DavidJSimpson · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

    1. Re:2007? by Mooga · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, time to pull out the DeLorean...

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      ~ Mooga
  2. 2007? by QUILz · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  3. On the Speakers list.. by handmedowns · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    The road between democracy and tyranny is paved with secrecy in the name of security.
    1. Re:On the Speakers list.. by _xeno_ · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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      You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
    2. Re:On the Speakers list.. by gbobeck · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  4. Radio Statler by double-oh+three · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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    "For years, I struggled with reality... but I'm happy to say I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd
    1. Re:Radio Statler by certron · · Score: 3, Informative

      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.

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  5. RIAA Litigations: How the Tech Community Can Help by John+Hasler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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).

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    Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
  6. The "Last HOPE", not the last "HOPE" by QMalcolm · · Score: 4, Informative

    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".

    1. Re:The "Last HOPE", not the last "HOPE" by Repton · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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      Repton.
      They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
  7. Let's do the Time Warp Again! by db32 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  8. Re:This one's obvious by skeeto · · Score: 5, Insightful

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