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Hackers on Planet Earth, or HOPE, is a conference series sponsored by the hacker magazine 2600 The Hacker Quarterly. There have been six conferences to date, and a seventh is in the planning stages.

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[edit] Conferences

[edit] HOPE: Hackers On Planet Earth

(Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, August 13, 1994-August 14, 1994)

This conference marked 2600 The Hacker Quarterly's 10th anniversary. Well over 1000 people were in attendance, including speakers from around the world. Admission included a 28.8 kbit/s local network.

[edit] Beyond HOPE

(Puck Building in New York City August 8, 1997-August 10, 1997)

There were 2000 attendees. Bell Technology Group helped to support the hackers. A TAP reunion and a live broadcast of Off the Hook took place (hear it here). Admission included a 10 Mbit/s local network.

[edit] H2K

(Hotel Pennsylvania, July 14, 2000-July 16, 2000)

More than 2300 attended this conference, the first H.O.P.E. to run 24 hours a day for the three dates it was on. Jello Biafra gave a keynote speech. In this historic cultural exchange between the punk rock icon/free speech activist and the hacker community, Jello managed to draw powerful connections, despite not having any actual computer experience, and the EFF raised thousands of dollars. The conference admission included a working ethernet and a T1 link to the internet.

[edit] H2K2

(Hotel Pennsylvania, July 12, 2002-July 14, 2002)

This conference also ran 24/3 with a theme of the United States of America homeland security Advisory System, the con included two tracks of scheduled speakers, a third track reserved for last minute and self scheduled speakers, a movie room, Retrocomputing, musical performances, a State of the World Address by Jello Biafra, keynotes by Aaron McGruder and Siva Vaidhyanathan and discussions on the DMCA and DeCSS. Freedom Downtime premiered on Friday evening (July 14). The conference admission included wireless 802.11b coverage and places to link in with wired ethernet, an open computer area for access to a 24-hour direct uplink to the Internet at "T-1ish" speeds, a public cluster (pictures here) made available by The DataHaven Project, as well as an active internal network.

[edit] The Fifth HOPE

(Hotel Pennsylvania, July 9, 2004-July 11, 2004)

The Fifth HOPE had a theme of propaganda and commemorated the anniversaries of both the H.O.P.E. cons and Off the Hook (with a live broadcast of the show from the con like at Beyond H.O.P.E.). Keynotes speakers were Kevin Mitnick, Steve Wozniak and Jello Biafra. There was also a media presentation by some of the "members" of the Phone Losers of America who celebrated their tenth-year anniversary. Additionally, Cult of the Dead Cow celebrated its twentieth anniversary at the conference. The conference admission included access to a four layer public network with two T1 lines + backup links to the internet via a Public Terminal Cluster, various wired means, a WiFi network on three floors and a video network.

[edit] HOPE Number Six

(Hotel Pennsylvania, July 21, 2006 - July 23, 2006)

Speakers (full list here) included Richard Stallman and Jello Biafra. Kevin Mitnick was scheduled but didn't show, due to being ill while vacationing in Colombia, postponing his return. Hope Number Six had a 100-megabit Internet connection, claimed by the organizers to be the fastest Internet connection at any US hacker conference. The event's theme was based around the series "The Prisoner" (as this event is titled "Number Six," a designation shared by the titular "prisoner,") and around the number 6 itself.

Notable occurrences:

  • Steve Rambam, a noted private investigator who runs Pallorium, Inc., an online investigative service, was set to lead a panel discussion titled "Privacy is Dead ... Get Over It." A few minutes before the start of the panel, Rambam was arrested by the FBI on charges that he unlawfully interfered with an ongoing case prosecutors filed against Albert Santoro, a former Brooklyn assistant district attorney who was indicted in Jan. 2003 with one count of money-laundering. [1][2][3] The charges were eventually dropped [4] and the talk was held in November of 2006, long after the conference ended.[1]
  • Jello Biafra began his talk by referring to the above arrest, noting the convention had been more "spook heavy" than usual. [2] He then announced a "special message" to "any Federal agents that may be in the audience", and mooned the convention. [3]

[edit] Untitled 7th HOPE Conference

(Planned for July, 2008)

The next HOPE conference is currently in the planning stages. A notable change from past years is 2600's use of an internet forum to facilitate community participation in the planning of the event. [4]



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