Information about the conference at http://www.thelasthope.org
Speaker/ Talks info: http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.php
Conference schedule: http://www.thelasthope.org/matrix/
Discussion site: http://talk.hope.net
Since 1994, the Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conferences have been held in New York City every other year. The HOPE conferences are organised by the folks who publish 2600 - The Hacker Quarterly.
These conferences bring together an interesting variety of people from all over the world, including technology fans, tinkers, academics, cryptography folks, cyber-liberties activists, and, of course, hackers of all kinds as well as people interested in hacker culture.
This year is going to be difficult for time but I hope to make it out for one of the days.
One of the presentations that should be very interesting is Johnny Long's "No Tech Hacking". I've seen him give such a presentation at TechnoForensics 2007 and it's both fun and thought provoking. The no tech aspect is a good eye-opener for people who get so focused upon technical/cyber security issues that they forget the low/no tech gotchas. (Hint for organisations with special security concerns that was conveyed by a couple of the slides: Don't put agency logos on laptops, laptop cases, etc. Advertising might not be your friend. <g>)
Speaker/ Talks info: http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.php
Conference schedule: http://www.thelasthope.org/matrix/
Discussion site: http://talk.hope.net
Since 1994, the Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conferences have been held in New York City every other year. The HOPE conferences are organised by the folks who publish 2600 - The Hacker Quarterly.
These conferences bring together an interesting variety of people from all over the world, including technology fans, tinkers, academics, cryptography folks, cyber-liberties activists, and, of course, hackers of all kinds as well as people interested in hacker culture.
This year is going to be difficult for time but I hope to make it out for one of the days.
One of the presentations that should be very interesting is Johnny Long's "No Tech Hacking". I've seen him give such a presentation at TechnoForensics 2007 and it's both fun and thought provoking. The no tech aspect is a good eye-opener for people who get so focused upon technical/cyber security issues that they forget the low/no tech gotchas. (Hint for organisations with special security concerns that was conveyed by a couple of the slides: Don't put agency logos on laptops, laptop cases, etc. Advertising might not be your friend. <g>)
HOPEfully,
J.D. Abolins
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amused
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