The Last HOPE (2008)

The Last HOPE took place July 18, 2008 through July 20, 2008 (13 years, 10 months ago) at Hotel Pennsylvania in New York, New York, USA.

Presentations:

Friday, July 18, 2008

10:00 - Botnet Research, Mitigation, and the Law
10:00 - The (Im)possibility of Hardware Obfuscation
10:00 - E-Mail: Descendant of the Telegram
11:00 - Earth Intelligence Network: World Brain as EarthGame
11:00 - Maintaining a Locksporting Organization and Breakthroughs in the Community
11:00 - Death Star Threat Modeling
12:00 - The Emperor is Naked
12:00 - Packing and the Friendly Skies - Why Transporting Firearms May Be the Best Way to Safeguard Your Tech When You Fly
12:00 - Citizen Engineer - Consumer Electronics Hacking and Open Source Hardware
13:00 - From a Black Hat to a Black Suit - How to Climb the Corporate Security Ladder Without Losing Your Soul
13:00 - Hacking Cool Things with Microcontrollers
13:00 - Evil Interfaces: Violating the User
14:00 - Introduction to MCU Firmware Analysis and Modification with MSP430static
14:00 - Hacking Democracy: An In Depth Analysis of the ES&S Voting Systems
14:00 - The Attendee Meta-Data Project
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
15:00 - Monumental Women Who Influenced Today's Technology
16:00 - Advanced Memory Forensics: Releasing the Cold Boot Utilities
16:00 - Hacking the Price of Food: An Urban Farming Renaissance
16:00 - Macro Social Engineering
17:00 - Kitchen Hack Lab: Interactive Food Disassembly
17:00 - Autonomously Bypassing VoIP Filters with Asterisk: Let Freedom Ring
17:00 - A Hacker's View of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
18:00 - Undoing Complexity - From Paper Clips to Ball Point Pens
18:00 - Hacker Space Design Patterns
18:00 - Hackers and Planet Earth
19:00 - A Collaborative Approach to Hardware Hacking: NYCResistor
19:00 - Hacking the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: Dispatches from the Field of Educational Technology
19:00 - Exploration of Possibilities: Brain Hacking
20:00 - One Last Time: The Hack/Phreak History Primer
20:00 - The New York City Taxi System: Privacy vs. Utility
20:00 - The Art of Do-Foo
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 - Hacking the Mind, Hacking the Body: Pleasure
22:00 - The Innermost Unifier: Today It's the Corporate Anthem
22:00 - VoIP (In)security: Italians Do It Better
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 - "Off the Grid" Voice/Data Communications
11:00 - Building a Better Ballot Box
11:00 - A Convergence of Communities
12:00 - Crippling Crypto: The Debian OpenSSL Debacle
12:00 - How Piracy Feeds a Starving Audience
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 - Methods of Copying High Security Keys
14:00 - Pseudonymization Methodologies: Personal Liberty vs. the Greater Good
14:00 - Installation Art in HOPE Space
15:00 - The History of Phone Phreaking, 1960-1980
15:00 - Reprimand Panel
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
16:00 - Ghetto IDS and Honeypots for the Home User
17:00 - Featured Speaker - Steven Rambam
17:00 - Safecracking
17:00 - Biohacking - An Overview
18:00 - Hacking International Networks and System(s) Using VoIP
18:00 - PGP versus PKI
19:00 - Phreaking 110: The State of Modern Phreaking
19:00 - Hackateer Premiere
20:00 - REAL ID Act and RFID: Privacy and Legal Implications
20:00 - Starting Your Own Con for Fun and No Profit: A How-to
20:00 - Phreaks, Confs, and Jail
21:00 - Social Engineering
21:00 - The Zen of the Hacker
22:00 - Featured Speaker - Kevin Mitnick
22:00 - The Singularity: Focus on Robotics and Hackers
23:00 - Phone Losers of America
23:00 - Building Hacker Spaces Everywhere: Your Excuses are Invalid
23:59 - Graffiti Research Labs Extravaganza
23:59 - Spy Improv: Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask and Did Not Know Who to Ask

Sunday, July 20, 2008

10:00 - A Decade Under the DMCA
10:00 - PenTest Labs Using LiveCDs
10:00 - How to Talk to the Mainstream Media
11:00 - Pen Testing the Web with Firefox
11:00 - Home Is Where The Heart Is? The Question of Jurisdiction
11:00 - The Intersection of Culture Jamming, Hacking, and Hacktivism
12:00 - What and Who is "Anonymous"?
12:00 - Simulating the Universe on Supercomputers
12:30 - Escaping High Security Handcuffs
13:00 - Identification Card Security: Past, Present, Future
13:00 - Programming Your Mobile Phone for International Calling
13:00 - Grand Theft Lazlow - Hacking the Media by Laughing at Them
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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