The Last HOPE (2008)

The Last HOPE took place July 18, 2008 through July 20, 2008 (10 years, 9 months ago) at Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, New York, USA.

Presentations:

Friday, July 18, 2008

10:00 - The (Im)possibility of Hardware Obfuscation
10:00 - E-Mail: Descendant of the Telegram
10:00 - Botnet Research, Mitigation, and the Law
11:00 - Maintaining a Locksporting Organization and Breakthroughs in the Community
11:00 - Earth Intelligence Network: World Brain as EarthGame
11:00 - Death Star Threat Modeling
12:00 - Packing and the Friendly Skies - Why Transporting Firearms May Be the Best Way to Safeguard Your Tech When You Fly
12:00 - The Emperor is Naked
12:00 - Citizen Engineer - Consumer Electronics Hacking and Open Source Hardware
13:00 - Evil Interfaces: Violating the User
13:00 - Hacking Cool Things with Microcontrollers
13:00 - From a Black Hat to a Black Suit - How to Climb the Corporate Security Ladder Without Losing Your Soul
14:00 - The Attendee Meta-Data Project
14:00 - Hacking Democracy: An In Depth Analysis of the ES&S Voting Systems
14:00 - Introduction to MCU Firmware Analysis and Modification with MSP430static
15:00 - Monumental Women Who Influenced Today's Technology
15:00 - Introduction to the Open Web Application Security Project
15:00 - Wikipedia: You Will Never Find a More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy
16:00 - Advanced Memory Forensics: Releasing the Cold Boot Utilities
16:00 - Macro Social Engineering
16:00 - Hacking the Price of Food: An Urban Farming Renaissance
17:00 - Autonomously Bypassing VoIP Filters with Asterisk: Let Freedom Ring
17:00 - Kitchen Hack Lab: Interactive Food Disassembly
17:00 - A Hacker's View of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
18:00 - Hacker Space Design Patterns
18:00 - Undoing Complexity - From Paper Clips to Ball Point Pens
18:00 - Hackers and Planet Earth
19:00 - Hacking the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: Dispatches from the Field of Educational Technology
19:00 - Exploration of Possibilities: Brain Hacking
19:00 - A Collaborative Approach to Hardware Hacking: NYCResistor
20:00 - One Last Time: The Hack/Phreak History Primer
20:00 - The Art of Do-Foo
20:00 - The New York City Taxi System: Privacy vs. Utility
21:00 - IPv6, The Next Generation Network Playground - How to Connect and Explore
21:00 - Dirty New Media: Art, Activism, and Computer Counter Cultures
21:00 - How Do I Pwn Thee? Let Me Count The Ways
22:00 - VoIP (In)security: Italians Do It Better
22:00 - The Innermost Unifier: Today It's the Corporate Anthem
22:00 - Hacking the Mind, Hacking the Body: Pleasure
23:00 - Project Telephreak

Saturday, July 19, 2008

10:00 - Policy Hacking: Taking Back Public Sector IT
10:00 - Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) - A Brief Primer on the Arcane Art and Science of Electronics Surveillance and "Bug" Detection
10:00 - Community Fabrication
11:00 - A Convergence of Communities
11:00 - "Off the Grid" Voice/Data Communications
11:00 - Building a Better Ballot Box
12:00 - How Piracy Feeds a Starving Audience
12:00 - Crippling Crypto: The Debian OpenSSL Debacle
12:00 - Sharing Your Love of Technology with Normal People - Prometheus Radio Project Tips
13:00 - RIAA Litigations: How the Tech Community Can Help
13:00 - Keynote Address - Steven Levy Keynote
14:00 - Installation Art in HOPE Space
14:00 - Methods of Copying High Security Keys
14:00 - Pseudonymization Methodologies: Personal Liberty vs. the Greater Good
15:00 - The History of Phone Phreaking, 1960-1980
15:00 - Reprimand Panel
16:00 - Ghetto IDS and Honeypots for the Home User
16:00 - Bagcam - How Did TSA and/or the Airlines Manage to Do That to Your Luggage?
16:00 - Port Knocking and Single Packet Authorization: Practical Deployments
17:00 - Safecracking
17:00 - Featured Speaker - Steven Rambam
17:00 - Biohacking - An Overview
18:00 - PGP versus PKI
18:00 - Hacking International Networks and System(s) Using VoIP
19:00 - Phreaking 110: The State of Modern Phreaking
19:00 - Hackateer Premiere
20:00 - Starting Your Own Con for Fun and No Profit: A How-to
20:00 - Phreaks, Confs, and Jail
20:00 - REAL ID Act and RFID: Privacy and Legal Implications
21:00 - The Zen of the Hacker
21:00 - Social Engineering
22:00 - The Singularity: Focus on Robotics and Hackers
22:00 - Featured Speaker - Kevin Mitnick
23:00 - Phone Losers of America
23:00 - Building Hacker Spaces Everywhere: Your Excuses are Invalid
23:59 - Spy Improv: Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask and Did Not Know Who to Ask
23:59 - Graffiti Research Labs Extravaganza

Sunday, July 20, 2008

10:00 - A Decade Under the DMCA
10:00 - How to Talk to the Mainstream Media
10:00 - PenTest Labs Using LiveCDs
11:00 - The Intersection of Culture Jamming, Hacking, and Hacktivism
11:00 - Home Is Where The Heart Is? The Question of Jurisdiction
11:00 - Pen Testing the Web with Firefox
12:00 - Simulating the Universe on Supercomputers
12:00 - What and Who is "Anonymous"?
12:30 - Escaping High Security Handcuffs
13:00 - Identification Card Security: Past, Present, Future
13:00 - Grand Theft Lazlow - Hacking the Media by Laughing at Them
13:00 - Programming Your Mobile Phone for International Calling
14:00 - Warrantless Laptop Searches at U.S. Borders
14:00 - Featured Speaker - Adam Savage
15:00 - YouTomb - A Free Culture Hack
15:00 - VLANs Layer 2 Attacks: Their Relevance and Their Kryptonite
15:00 - Postal Hacking
16:00 - Featured Speaker - Jello Biafra
16:00 - Strengths and Weaknesses of (Physical) Access Control Systems
17:00 - No-Tech Hacking
18:00 - The Last HOPE Closing Ceremonies

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