Presented at
A New HOPE (2022),
July 23, 2022, 11 p.m.
(50 minutes)
The modern public knew it as the Hotel Pennsylvania. The many people who booked rooms there knew it as the dirty decaying building where they got bedbugs that one time. Throughout history it was known as the The Statler Hilton, The New York Statler, and the New York Penta. But to mischievous hackers every two years in New York City, it was simply known as home. This talk will be a dissection of HOPE’s former abode as its strange history is examined. Secrets that never saw the light of day until now will be revealed and hacker stories that live in the hard drive of our minds will be shared. Attendees can also come up to the mic and share their stories, grievances, fairy tales, myths, epic yarns, and shocking truths about their own Hotel Penn memories committed to hacker record.
Presenters:
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xio
**Xio (@XioNYC)** is a long-time institution of NYC2600 and has accumulated decades of knowledge of the communication arts, from pre-production to finished product. A three-time HOPE conference lecturer, he passes along his wisdom for hacking, accessibility, philosophy, and getting by on minimal budgets. 12h 24m 09.927(9) -40°41'29.7(3)
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Sidepocket
**Sidepocket (@defcon201nj)** is a co-founder of DCG 201, an open group for hacker workshop projects in northeast New Jersey, overly motivated to help people get better at whatever they want to do and learn. He also has a history with NYC 2600, Radio Statler at Hackers on Planet Earth, Phone Losers of America, TOOOL, Museum of Urban Reclaim Spaces, and The Yes Men.
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