Everything about H O P E totally explained
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.
Conferences
(
Hotel Pennsylvania,
New York City,
August 13,
1994-
August 14,
1994)
» This conference marked '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.
(
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.
(
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.
(
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.
(
Hotel Pennsylvania,
July 9,
2004-
July 11,
2004)
» The Fifth H.O.P.E. 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.
(
Hotel Pennsylvania,
July 21,
2006 -
July 23,
2006)
» Speakers
(full list here) included
Richard Stallman and
Jello Biafra.
Kevin Mitnick was scheduled to be at the conference but was unable to make it; while on vacation in
Colombia an illness postponed 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. The charges were eventually dropped and the talk was held in November of 2006, long after the conference ended.(External Link)
- Jello Biafra began his talk by referring to the above arrest, noting the convention had been more "spook heavy" than usual. (External Link) He then announced a "special message" to "any Federal agents that may be in the audience", and mooned the convention. (External Link)
Will take place
July, 18-20
2008 at
Hotel Pennsylvania
» The next H.O.P.E. 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.
(External Link)
» The name refers to the expectation that this will be the final H.O.P.E. conference due to the scheduled demolition of its venue, the Hotel Pennsylvania. A
'Save The Hotel' campaign is ongoing.
» Pre-registration for the conference is available.
» Steven Levy has been
named as one of the keynote for "The Last HOPE"
» Further Information
Get more info on 'H O P E'.
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