Happy Hardware Freedom Day

Blug_fred writes "For the first year the Digital Freedom Foundation (ex-SFI) is organizing Hardware Freedom Day. With 66 events worldwide split over 36 countries, they are not yet covering the whole world but it is a good start. So if you have always been wondering about hacking your own stuff, be it a piece of wood or some more complex electronic gears then it is time to join an open door day type of event. Sixty-six events is definitely less that the total number of hackerspaces around the world and you can check for other events happening in a hackerspace near you if none are celebrating today. Hopefully they will join the movement next year."

Comments

4/20?

[Urza9814]

So who's the idiot who decided put this on 4/20? :D

yep

[friedman101]

Ah yes, 4/20 - the day I finally free up all my ceramic hardware

Low response very disturbing

[SuperKendall]

"Hardware Freedom" day is a great idea, to teach people all over how to free devices they have they may think are not free.

And the place I would naturally go to see interesting reports of what people are doing is Slashdot.

But after a whole day only 15 replies? Is this saying something about Slashdot, or about the userbase? There were a lot of comments in articles covering topics like CLANG, so it doesn't seem like there are a lot less people on Slashdot today - just few interested in hardware at all...

For anyone throwing up hands because they think all devices today are closed off and hacking is impossible, read the book "Hacking the XBox" if you can. It gives a lot of great insight into how people still can analyze even modern apparently closed devices, and approaches to modern reverse engineering.