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This talk pulls back the curtain on the modern police surveillance stack, from Flock cameras and cell-site simulators to drones, body cameras, facial recognition, data brokers, and regional intelligence networks. Using real-world examples and open-source tools such as EFF's Atlas of Surveillance and RayHunter, Michael Raymond will show attendees how these systems work, how communities are mapping them, and what practical, lawful steps people can take to better understand and reduce their exposure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592313045047,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_e41d2669-78ca-4a69-bb1d-ed516d756ca7.png?v=1791170385"},{"product_id":"digital-product-2","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"I-Stars: Protocols and Power\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMallory Knodel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1100 Crystal Ballroom: Back for the third time, author and technologist Mallory Knodel will give an update on several I-star organizations, namely ICANN, IETF, IEEE, W3C, and ITU. The tensions and synergies of human rights considerations in Internet governance and standards setting across the I-star bodies is rapidly expanding. 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It has a real CRT, a custom graphics card, spinner controllers, and a deploy pipeline where anyone can ship a game just by pushing to GitHub. It now has over 90 games. Frank Chiarulli will talk about reviving the hardware and building the deployment system, Rose Hall will cover the game engine and plugin sandbox, and Sophie Downward will walk through building a custom display adapter from scratch. 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Hellbent on stamping out any and all dissent, tech executives embraced Trumpism, fired organizers, and began lashing out against the \"woke\" ideology they blamed for turning their once loyal employees against them. 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HERMES has been deployed in the Amazon to support land defenders, on boats in Bangladesh to provide critical communications to fishermen, in war zones in Africa as part of early warning systems, etc. Due to current geopolitical situations that have us all concerned, it's clear that HERMES can be a critical tool for hackers, privacy activists, and the general public to create autonomous and secure digital communication networks that are much harder to monitor or shut down compared to corporate-controlled ISPs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592314257463,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_6394ce9d-f735-4608-a791-6a28fe5b8168.png?v=1791170273"},{"product_id":"digital-product-6","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"From Source to Story: Cryptography and Psychosocial Care Protects Public Interest Journalism\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJen Helsby\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarlo Holmes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1300 Grand Ballroom: The threat landscape for journalists and whistleblowers has dramatically intensified over the last 15 years, leading to the development of robust technical evolutions in platforms from SecureDrop, Dangerzone, WhatsApp (meh), and Signal. Safely handling malicious submissions and spicy comms, newsrooms have become used to employing rigorous security models, sandboxing techniques, and myriad other tactics that have become the \"meat-and-potatoes\" of high-stakes public interest journalism. The baseline for secure communications is always shifting due to emerging legal, quantum, and novel AI challenges. This talk will address this and help enable you to fully understand how securing data is only half the equation; it is equally critical to protect the human risking their livelihood or liberty for the public's right to know. This means moving beyond threat models to deeply understand the psychological toll of whistleblowing and the empathetic dimensions of the journalist-source relationship. You will get a glimpse into the modern toolbox that merges strict digital security protocols with empathetic strategies to manage the anxiety inherent in the biggest disclosures. 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Learn how to model legal sources using vector and graph databases, how to acquire records using scrapers, and how to connect directly to the people at Congress producing and publishing these records each day. Calliope live-codes each day on YouTube to prepare for HOPE, on youtube.com\/@c4lliope\/streams. Their code is published on operand.online.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592314748983,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_4cbd903d-9e18-4abc-b5fa-1438cf01335b.png?v=1791170187"},{"product_id":"digital-product-8","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Lingua Machina: The Last Humans Who Read Code\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnna Nicanorova\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1300 Gramercy Park: We treat code as pure instruction, something you write so a machine will obey. Programming languages are closer to a living vernacular, riddled with idiom, accent, ambiguity, and taste, sitting somewhere between human language and musical notation. This talk covers the linguistics of computer languages: how languages were invented, argued over, and mutated; how grammar became structure; how we keep accelerating the pace at which we talk to machines in search of better ways to build. And as the history of computer linguistics will be covered, it is also worth reviewing the uncomfortable question for an age of generated code: as fewer of us write it by hand, will we still read it, understand it, and know why we write it the way we do?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592314781751,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_314343d8-8129-41e3-a704-d18c32432e87.png?v=1791170170"},{"product_id":"digital-product-9","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Leaking and Investigating the Epstein Files\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmma Best (Distributed Denial of Secrets)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMikael Thalen (Straight Arrow News)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRaphael Satter (Reuters)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKyrie (hacker\/leaker)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlexander J. 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Members of the panel will discuss receiving the leaks, preserving files removed by the Department of Justice, protecting the privacy of Epstein's victims, and the process and fallout of investigating and reporting on the explosive files.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe discussion will be joined by Kyrie, a hacker who gained access to Jeffrey Epstein's emails and later provided a copy to Distributed Denial of Secrets).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592314880055,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_6398ba1d-2385-4879-a188-6c9d66f049ea.png?v=1791170153"},{"product_id":"digital-product-10","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Field Notes From a Year of OPSEC for Liberation Movements\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDaly Barnett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1400 Crystal Ballroom: Throughout 2025, EFF facilitated digital privacy and security trainings for more than 2000 people. The issue spaces at hand ranged from animal rights activism, abortion access, immigration legal defense groups, and many many more. Although the particular characteristics of the various audiences differed, one thing remained true: traditional sources of information security were either inaccessible to these groups or fundamentally unable to meet their unique needs. In this talk, EFF senior staff technologist Daly Barnett will present field notes collected from the trainings conducted throughout 2025. This high-level survey will cover the types of digital privacy and security threats facing various liberation movement workers in America today, as well as the mitigation strategies they are walked through. For fellow hackers and technologists, this is not only an indispensable insight into the actual impacts of surveillance technology and digital security threats facing today's activists, but also a blueprint for how they might be able to provide movement workers with much needed help.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592314912823,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_01199975-3770-429d-854f-a44b5e2be404.png?v=1791170134"},{"product_id":"digital-product-11","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Privacy's Defender: My 30 Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCindy Cohn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1500 Grand Ballroom: In this talk that parallels her recently released book of the same title, Cindy Cohn (former executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation) weaves her own personal story with her role as a leading legal voice representing the rights and interests of technology users, innovators, whistleblowers, and researchers during the Crypto Wars of the 1990s, battles over NSA's dragnet Internet spying revealed in the 2000s, and the fight against FBI gag orders. No promises, but she may be joined on stage by a key client or two.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592314945591,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_c2b4887b-ec71-4b4f-a687-9e98fc64b2c4.png?v=1791170110"},{"product_id":"digital-product-12","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Seeing Inside the Mind of AI: Tracing Agents, Tools, and Weird Decisions\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Barbine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1500 Crystal Ballroom: AI is starting to feel less like software and more like a strange coworker with root access. It can read, write, reason, call tools, trigger workflows, move data, spend money, and make decisions across systems most people barely understand. We see the prompt. We see the response. But the interesting part happens in the middle, where AI-driven systems fan out through APIs, containers, queues, databases, serverless functions, model calls, SaaS platforms, and external services.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis talk is about opening up that middle. Michael Barbine will take the audience on a practical, funny, and deeply suspicious tour of what it means to instrument AI systems so we can see what they are actually doing. His approach comes from security, observability, automation, and an unusually disciplined obsession with games, rules, feedback loops, and measurable behavior. Whether debugging infrastructure, testing endpoint defenses, building agentic workflows, or playing tens of thousands of rounds of Rock Paper Scissors, the core question is the same: what happened, what changed, what pattern did we miss, and how do we prove it? Using distributed tracing, structured events, correlation IDs, audit trails, and purpose-built observability patterns, we can follow AI workflows across modern infrastructure and catch the moments where things get weird. Where did the agent hesitate? What did it call? What did it retry? What did it hallucinate? What did it spend? What data did it touch? What did it decide quietly? And why should anyone trust a system they cannot inspect?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a talk for hackers, builders, defenders, operators, and anyone who has ever looked at a black box and taken it personally. It connects classic hacker curiosity with one of the most urgent problems in modern computing: how to understand systems that are becoming more autonomous, persuasive, and embedded in everyday life. Attendees will leave with practical patterns for tracing AI applications, a clearer mental model for debugging agentic systems, and a renewed appreciation for the ancient hacker principle that mystery is not an acceptable interface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592315109431,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_c7a67b11-cef6-4366-a5c9-945281015232.png?v=1791170096"},{"product_id":"digital-product-13","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Against Chokepoints: Optical, Audio, and Wireless Mesh as a Community Software Bus\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMatt Hargett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1500 Gramercy Park: Modern \"open\" software still depends on fragile chokepoints: corporate-controlled CDNs, app stores, DNS, captive portals, web application firewalls, cloud accounts, Wi-Fi, BLE identifiers, and infrastructure that can be blocked, surveilled, or simply unavailable. This talk demonstrates a tiny app runtime where people trade\/propagate bite-size WebAssembly and WGSL code, audio\/video\/photo media, map\/wiki diffs, and forum messages directly through physical presence: full-duplex QR\/fountain codes, data-over-audio, and BLE mesh when user deems it safe. The point is not nostalgia for the bygone era of the Sneakernet. The goal is a practical, inspectable, community-owned software and media commons that can move through rooms, protests, disasters, schools, hackerspaces, and border cases to\/from most digital devices (including smart watches) without needing permission from the Internet network operators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592315830327,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_0a7a7c62-33a9-4b47-99e1-21715504cd70.png?v=1791170078"},{"product_id":"digital-product-14","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Spacesuits, Mars Boots and Vegan Roots in the Desert Regolith: Field Testing the Tardigrade v.1 EMU Under Pressure in the Badlands\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eScott Beibin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Jane Cole\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1600 Crystal Ballroom: The Tardigrade v.1 EMU (extravehicular mobility unit) is designed for pressurized EVAs (extravehicular activities) during space analog research missions that focus on training for Mars and lunar surface exploration. The suit system concept emerged from a collaboration between Dr. Cameron Smith (Smith Exploration Garments), Scott Beibin (Offworld Voyage), and Elizabeth Jane Cole (Offworld Voyage), with the goal of developing a pressurized EMU training suit platform intended for improved human mobility capabilities on rough terrain during EVAs. The system is designed for easy installation and testing of experimental modular telemetry and communication systems, as well as ease of donning and doffing by analog astronauts during immersive space exploration training mission simulations. The presenters will demonstrate the capabilities and features of the Tardigrade v.1 EMU space exploration training suit platform and share a report back from the first field test held in a remote desert location.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592316059703,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_e58e6b04-7f10-4232-b6f6-748dd7967265.png?v=1791170062"},{"product_id":"digital-product-15","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Flushing Tech: Three Years of Building Hyper-Local Tech Communities\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hutson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1600 Gramercy Park: Come learn and be inspired by how Flushing Tech brings tech communities to neighborhoods across NYC. Flushing Tech was created three years ago to bring tech enthusiasts together right in their own neighborhoods by having fun building tech, making connections, and learning new things. At HOPE_16, William talked about the start of that journey and shared a practical roadmap with actionable guidelines so anyone could build their own hyper-local tech community. Flushing Tech has evolved over the past year - becoming a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, experimenting with in-person hackathons and online activities, and taking the leap of faith into other neighborhoods. Come hear what worked, what didn't, and what surprised them. These stories - the wins, the failures, and everything in between - will give you ideas you can steal, remix, and improve upon. The goal is simple: make it easy for anyone, anywhere, to build a thriving hyper-local tech community. 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This operation was met with widespread, decentralized, and highly coordinated grassroots resistance via interconnected hyperlocal rapid response groups, facilitated by metro-wide digital infrastructure and data processing systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNetworks of local organizers, hackers, and technologists built out extensive technical capacity for widespread occupation resistance, including systems for secure and coordinated rapid response communication, systems for tracking abductees through the highly opaque immigration system, and sophisticated monitoring systems for tracking ICE personnel, drones, and vehicles. This technical capacity has remained critical to the resistance against ICE operations, and organizers in other cities have become increasingly interested in similar infrastructure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis talk will provide a comprehensive outline of these logistical, communications, and data processing systems; the ways these systems were effective, the ways they fell short, and most importantly, how hackers and technologists can better organize to build new iterations of this infrastructure within their own regions and contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592316452919,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_6f7d78c9-3c9b-456c-8164-e9e13b81217c.png?v=1791170028"},{"product_id":"digital-product-17","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Nikola Tesla's Time at the New Yorker Hotel\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Velez\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1700 Crystal Ballroom: Nikola Tesla spent the last ten years of his life in rooms 3327 and 3328 of the New Yorker Hotel, holding annual birthday press conferences to announce wild new inventions living above the largest private power plant in the United States, and dying alone upstairs on January 7, 1943, after which the government seized his papers despite his American citizenship. This year, for the first time, HOPE convenes in that same building. This talk covers Tesla's final decade under this roof, the hotel's own remarkable machinery, the declassified FBI files, and the three individuals who spent their lives making sure none of it was forgotten: William Terbo, Tesla's grandnephew and last direct-line relative; Dr. Ljubo Vujovic of the Tesla Memorial Society of New York; and Joe Kinney, the hotel's longtime chief engineer and historian. 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Steve shares what they are designed for and how they are used. Examples in areas like broadcast, astronomy, radar, and a few of the more niche or clandestine application areas will be covered - and not just related to amateur radio. There will also be coverage of how to scale these applications to something any radio hobbyist can copy, make, and use inexpensively at a smaller scale. This presentation will be light on history and high on modern use systems to enable cool wireless projects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592316649527,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_a9375c05-c58e-4001-a5dc-3d72bbac4bf6.png?v=1791169989"},{"product_id":"digital-product-19","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Hackers: Journalism Needs Your Help\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrandon Roberts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1800 Grand Ballroom: Journalism is in rough shape. Budgets, resources and staffing are shrinking. This dire situation is a bummer but also opens opportunities for hackers to take up the flag and do some great work in collaboration with journalists. This talk will explore some real world technical problems that show up in actual investigative work and explain how the hacker community can help. Bored? Let's get to work!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592316813367,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_74ae189e-38ab-47f0-bff0-9ab061929987.png?v=1791169967"},{"product_id":"digital-product-20","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Nobody Owns This: 9P CyberDecks and Community-Owned Mesh Computing\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJon Sharp\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1800 Crystal Ballroom: This is the story of how a homebrew cyberdeck project ran headlong into a wall of modern protocol complexity, and how the 9P protocol from Bell Labs - the heart of the Plan 9 operating system - turned out to be the answer. Jon Sharp will demonstrate 9p4z, an open-source library bringing 9P to modern microcontrollers, and show working mesh chat running over long-range radio: off-grid, community-owned communication infrastructure built from parts you probably have in a drawer. The good ideas computing discarded weren't wrong - they just weren't profitable enough to lock up, which is exactly what makes them ours to resurrect. 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Drawing on real casework from advanced security clients, this talk covers open-source and vetted closed-source techniques for generating synthetic noise in personal targeting datasets, including a real case study with an honest post-mortem on what worked and what didn't, plus a breakdown of state-level address confidentiality programs as a legal shield against non-government actors. Attendees will leave with a practical threat model and a clear framework for knowing when removal is effective, when deception is necessary, and when disruption is the only move left.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592316911671,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_9b23b473-4ead-418a-b4b5-3c96623302fc.png?v=1791169929"},{"product_id":"digital-product-22","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Inside North Korea's Underground Tech Resistance: How Smugglers, Defectors, and Technologists Are Outmaneuvering the World's Most Locked-Down Information System\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJon Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1900 Grand Ballroom: This talk provides a layer-by-layer technical breakdown of North Korea's civilian information-control system - covering custom Android handsets with mandatory state-signed APKs, a screenshot-based surveillance daemon called TraceViewer, steganographic file watermarking in Red Star OS, and a sealed national intranet with zero Internet access. The talk demonstrates how North Korean citizens and a network of defectors and technologists are actively circumventing it using sneakernets, smuggled phones, and purpose-built tools. The talk concludes with a structured call to action for the security community, presenting open engineering challenges in obfuscation, firmware exploitation, air-gapped deployment, embedded systems, and more that map directly to skills common among HOPE attendees, grounded throughout in tools that have been built, tested with defectors, and deployed through Liberty in North Korea's underground network.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592317009975,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_b94c3d32-0a20-4067-af28-fafc674231a3.png?v=1791169912"},{"product_id":"digital-product-23","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"How to Fight DDoS Attacks From the Command Line\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael McMahon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1900 Crystal Ballroom: Why are all of our favorite sites starting with \"Just a moment...\" and \"Making sure you're not a bot!\" splash pages now? Since 2024, AI companies appear to be operating aggressive, vibe-coded scrapers behind residential proxy botnets, and sites have typically turned to commercial shields. Michael will share several tools and techniques that he uses as a systems administrator at the Free Software Foundation to keep the sites up on their own infrastructure. He will demo some of his own tools and the tech stack he uses regarding monitoring, firewalls, automation, analytics, ASN lookups\/blocking, and geofencing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592317173815,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_aa3112f7-aba1-44b1-b53b-86950f3eb628.png?v=1791169891"},{"product_id":"digital-product-24","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption to Build Real-World Software\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eVishakh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 1900 Gramercy Park: Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables computation over encrypted data, allowing third parties to process information without ever seeing it. This talk explores recent practical advances in FHE, with actionable guidance for developers building privacy-preserving applications. Along the way, there will be a discussion on the different mental models required to design systems around encrypted computation, as well as the limitations that still stand in the way of broader adoption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592317403191,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_e3d1cc91-1879-4a45-88ae-5f566715f979.png?v=1791169873"},{"product_id":"digital-product-25","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"The New Cold War Has No Borders: Building the Sovereign Stack\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDaniel Nowak\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 2000 Grand Ballroom: Nation-state actors are running intelligence operations against neo-finance protocols, sovereign AI infrastructure, and the hacker community's communications networks. The government response follows a predictable pattern: external threat becomes justification for internal control. That cycle is unfolding now in legislation pushing toward mandatory identity verification for Internet access. Frontier AI is becoming a tiered resource, accessible to states and institutions, rationed to everyone else. The question is not whether centralized control infrastructure gets built. The question is whether alternative infrastructure can emerge and survive before it arrives. This talk examines the sovereign stack as a unified strategic response and explores how OSINT tradecraft can expose infiltration attempts before a technical compromise occurs. Both are anchored in a framework first articulated in 2012: how do you build systems that remain operational long enough to shape the next battle?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592317599799,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_7e06f69c-4e1c-4efc-937a-cab50eadcb1c.png?v=1791169855"},{"product_id":"digital-product-26","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"How Advertising Libraries in Mobile Apps Enable a Massive Location Surveillance Apparatus\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Budington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLena Cohen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 2000 Crystal Ballroom: Last year at HOPE, William discussed the dangers of location data brokers tracking billions of people through mobile apps and selling their location to the highest bidder. This year, he'll dive deeper into how and why mobile apps betray our location privacy. Advertising libraries included in a vast array of apps can transmit location data from your device sensors to surveillance tools available to the government and sold on the open market. While parts of this data pipeline remain shrouded by corporate secrecy, we can shine light on its starting point through analysis of the SDKs powering advertisements and harvesting location data in our mobile apps. You will learn the findings from looking at these components at EFF's Threat Lab, techniques that are used to investigate apps, and conclusions about what is needed to stop mobile advertising from fueling the location surveillance industry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592317665335,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_f098cf4e-cc2e-4938-a1ea-2f65654df488.png?v=1791169834"},{"product_id":"digital-product-27","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Wardialing IPv4\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eelixx\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 2000 Gramercy Park: If you had a monkey type IP addresses into a web browser, how long would it take for them to find a web server? A WordPress blog? An admin dashboard? Your smart fridge? elixx explains how a foray into vibe coding led to computing in the Cloud, Big Data problems, and uncovering the dustiest corners of the Internet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592317894711,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_7612a19f-6e4e-43d4-a867-a1e593bf4606.png?v=1791169769"},{"product_id":"digital-product-28","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Nation-State Machinery: Inside the Persona Production Line Behind the Stryker Strike\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAshley Rose\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 2100 Grand Ballroom: On March 11, 2026, the medical technology giant Stryker Corporation fell victim to a \"zero-binary\" wipe that factory-reset over 200,000 systems across 79 countries. No custom malware was needed; Handala simply turned the victim's own cloud management tools into a weapon. This was not a random act of hacktivism, but the output of a sophisticated nation-state \"persona production line\" designed for total infrastructure destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis session provides the definitive post-mortem of the Stryker strike, pulling back the curtain on the \"Manticore\" ecosystem where Iranian intelligence (MOIS) and military (IRGC) units collaborate under a deniable mask. Ashley will explore the strategic \"hand-off\" between espionage groups and destructive cells, and provide an exclusive unmasking of the Tabriz-based operators behind the keyboard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592318058551,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_239264b1-1605-4e4f-b84b-4e9936758722.png?v=1791169754"},{"product_id":"digital-product-29","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"More Computational Techniques for Making Karaoke Harder\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJamie Brew\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJenn Schiffer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 2100 Crystal Ballroom: Robot karaoke returns to HOPE! Jamie and Jenn run a live comedy show where performers sing all-new words to classic tunes, generated in real time. Their songwriting system searches an eclectic catalog for phrases that match the original rhyme and meter of each line, creating lyrics that have never been sung before and will never be sung again. Think Quora questions to the tune of \"Dancing Queen\" or HOPE presentation titles to the tune of \"The Rainbow Connection.\" This talk covers how they source the data, phonetically annotate the songs, run the show, and develop their core software: the Weird Algorithm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592318222391,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_f9769677-0f6a-4504-86fa-4eb882a90390.png?v=1791169736"},{"product_id":"digital-product-30","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Engineering Waveflower - A Radial Oscilloscope for Visualizing Livecoding Music\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eYing Chyi Gooi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 2100 Gramercy Park: This talk aims to help explore the connection between musical harmony and geometry in a simple, easy-to-use interface. The program Gooi created (Waveflower) can be extended using livecoding techniques to help us learn through experimenting with music theory, to tune a pitch, or be used as a visualization tool in audio\/visual productions. Gooi believes it is time to present an equally useful alternative to Lissajous scopes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592318418999,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_5f7a8a7d-560b-48b7-af1e-bd78a663de80.png?v=1791169716"},{"product_id":"digital-product-31","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Please Wiggle Responsibly - A Dance Extravaganza\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohannes Grenzfurthner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 2200 - Grand Ballroom: The crazy Austrian will provide the HOPE crowd with a healthy dose of hacked beats and mash-up monstrosities designed to, and we quote, \"make us wiggle our anuses off.\" Do you want to dance while constantly wondering what you're actually listening to? This is your chance to enjoy HOPE after hours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592318484535,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_74177e37-5560-4038-a14f-fb6ff323ba7d.png?v=1791169699"},{"product_id":"digital-product-32","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Joybubbles Screening Q\u0026A\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRachael J. Morrison\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriday 2200 - Crystal Ballroom: In the 1950s, a boy discovers he can control the global telephone system simply by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and hungry for connection, his early obsession with the telephone sparks a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and modern technology in the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTold through vivid archival footage and Joybubbles' own voice recordings, the film celebrates a visionary who redefined connection and challenged assumptions about disability, identity, and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoybubbles pulses with the curiosity and wonder he brought to the world, brought to life through director Rachael J. Morrison' s inventive, tactile storytelling. 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She will talk about methods she used to approach sources in vulnerable communities and make them feel safe. She will discuss how to \"threat-model,\" new approaches to educate sources and help sources give information, and the laws that make it difficult for whistleblowers and sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second part of the talk discusses public education campaigns for sources to pass information on safely to newsrooms and journalists, as well as data protection laws and ways to protect data from surveillance in communications between journalists and sources. It will cover ways to bolster a global movement against surveillance and data retention by multinational corporations to enhance privacy and to protect the act of journalism globally. The Espionage Act will be examined and examples of sources and whistleblowers being prosecuted will be discussed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592319107127,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_079954e6-4d77-4fea-8cbc-2a156977b0d1.png?v=1791169482"},{"product_id":"digital-product-34","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Autonomous Exploitation at Scale\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarter Pfaff\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1000 Gramercy Park: With the advent of powerful, open-source, and lightweight large language models, the cost barriers that typically prevent targeted attacks - with people manually scanning, infecting, and exploiting - are vastly reduced. This talk presents a self-propagating worm which autonomously detects devices, enumerates their vulnerabilities and services, checks for exploits which could work on them, and exploits them and spreads to them, forming a distributed network. It discusses the limitations, design decisions, and tradeoffs made in the development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592320548919,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_59808208-30cf-4fd0-b971-ee7d811161e7.png?v=1791169460"},{"product_id":"digital-product-35","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"The Onion Shell: Zero-Install Tor From the Browser\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eErica Windisch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1100 Grand Ballroom: What if anyone in the world could connect to the Tor network and benefit from its privacy protections with nothing more than a standard web browser? Volunteers globally operate a free onion network that protects Internet privacy. It prevents tracking, surveillance, and censorship. However, accessing the onion network has always required special software running as a privileged user. Often, users even install virtual machines or operate dedicated machines to isolate their applications connecting to Tor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot all threat models are equal. Some users do not have the privileges and access to their machines necessary to connect to Tor. This is increasingly important in a world where governments are mandating OS-level PII capture and reporting. Walled garden operating systems such as iOS and Android are increasingly tightening a user's freedom to install software such as Tor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, the Tor onion network can be made available to more users on more devices through advancements in web technologies. Using The Onion Shell, users can now connect to the Tor onion network from their browser with real browser-initiated onion circuits. This talk will include demos, a discussion of the effort, and new risks this technology introduces, such as enhanced exfiltration techniques.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592320843831,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_41ee8989-214d-4b19-94c0-f6960ba03f9f.png?v=1791169439"},{"product_id":"digital-product-36","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Speculative Solidarities: Sanctuary Cell Division - A Call to Action\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRev. Elæ Moss Benedetto\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJorge Luis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRev. 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The conversation focuses on concrete tensions: operational security in community settings, coordinating without increasing surveillance exposure, managing resource flows without creating legal liability, and sustaining the physical and nervous systems of the people doing the work. The format emphasizes exchange, disagreement, and synthesis across domains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592321826871,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_d3cb0fba-b5a3-424a-878f-f92d5034a934.png?v=1791169403"},{"product_id":"digital-product-37","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"The Deceptive Web of Scam Compounds\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLaura Sang Hee Scherling, EdD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1100 Gramercy Park: This presentation examines the rise of scam compounds and the rapidly evolving characteristics of these industrial-scale fraudulent operations. A recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that cyber-enabled fraud has intensified, resulting in billions of dollars in losses, with many of these malicious networks orchestrated by criminal syndicates in Southeast Asia. The UN estimates that hundreds of thousands of individuals have been trafficked and forced to labor in these illicit facilities. Crucially, as these syndicates integrate increasingly sophisticated technologies, they have also become highly mobile, routinely relocating entire compounds upon completing a \"lifecycle of operations.\" Dr. Scherling's presentation draws from her extensive interviews with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, investigative journalists, and compound survivors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592325627959,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_3bcfdfc9-36f7-444d-b526-9870dfd1353c.png?v=1791169381"},{"product_id":"digital-product-38","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Ask EFF, 2026 Edition\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDaly Barnett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Budington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLena Cohen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCara Gagliano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRory Mir\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1200 Grand Ballroom: In 2026, a confluence of corporate and government forces work together to deploy new and frightening surveillance technologies to monitor and restrict the rights of ordinary people. As tools made available to law enforcement and ICE track the movements of our devices, FLOCK cameras gather an endless stream of information from the automobiles indispensable to most Americans. But 2026 is also the year that the users started to fight to \"Take Back CTRL,\" and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been with them every step of the way. From suing cities which deploy automated license plate readers, to raising awareness around the practices of data brokers, to developing technologies that enable users to avoid trackers, EFF combines legal, activist, and technological strategies to help in the fight. They're back at HOPE this year with staff members across the organization to answer your questions and help you more effectively engage in the struggle for digital rights. In this troubling time, they will discuss some of the new opportunities they see to empower ourselves against the forces of technological oppression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592325660727,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_475b57a3-c3cd-4293-b6de-081db3846d90.png?v=1791169348"},{"product_id":"digital-product-39","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"To Kill the Telephone System's Ghost\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhillip Hallam-Baker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1200 Crystal Ballroom: The telephone system hasn't existed for decades, but its ghost lives on. We still use telephone numbers, but the Strowger exchanges built with 1890s technology of relays went long ago and so have most of the systems built to replace them. What we are left with is a system that is no longer fit for purpose. As with SMTP email, the utility of the system has been lost to abuse (spam) long ago. It is time to replace it with something better. Replacing the telephone system appears to be a hopeless task, but what if we could replace all the forms of person-to-person network communication with a single infrastructure that has security built in?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592332247095,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_cc0171f3-d074-45b4-8659-ac9f08ed4113.png?v=1791169327"},{"product_id":"digital-product-40","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"The Server Knows Nothing: Designing Emergency Apps With Nothing to Subpoena\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJason Long\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1200 Gramercy Park: ReadyNow! is an emergency response app designed to help immigrant communities in the United States in the event of ICE\/CBP detention. In a crisis moment, the app can notify trusted contacts and help trigger a pre-planned response. But building an emergency tool for vulnerable communities comes with a paradox: the very act of using the app can expose not just the user, but their loved ones, their community, and their broader contact network. Jason will explain how the app set out to ensure that it would never become an \"arrest bingo card\" - a system that quietly maps relationships and risk. This talk is a case study in designing \"security-first\" systems where the adversary isn't hypothetical, and where metadata and contact graphs are as sensitive as message content. The central technical and product challenge will be explored: how do you send messages on someone's behalf without the organization ever knowing the message or the recipients? The talk will go through the design constraints that led developers to keep data encrypted and local to the device, and to deliberately build a system with minimal server-side visibility. Finally, a problem that's often ignored in security engineering will be covered: opaque security doesn't make users feel secure. For people facing real-world threats, trust requires clarity. The tradeoffs between safety, functionality, and observability will be discussed, and practical lessons for building high-risk apps that are secure by design - and legible enough for users to believe - will be shared.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592332312631,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_42dbf474-1500-4bf8-910e-0e1b40fa7468.png?v=1791169310"},{"product_id":"digital-product-41","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Remembering Hackers 31 Years Later\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRenoly Santiago (Phantom Phreak)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmmanuel Goldstein\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinn Schwartau\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1300 Crystal Ballroom: The iconic mainstream movie about the hacker culture in New York City has endured over the years better than most would have expected. People still quote various lines on a regular basis, the story was less farfetched than most other hacker tales of the time, and the soundtrack remains a favorite to many. Phantom Phreak (played by Renoly Santiago) was one of the fan favorites. Renoly will describe what it was like to be a part of this project and how this role helped to shape his career. Emmanuel Goldstein will recollect the writing process of Rafael Moreu, what it was like to interact with the stars of the film, and how various decisions shaped the finished product.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRenoly will be available for autographs and pictures after the panel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592332378167,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_974c6dcf-b45a-488f-85b7-dd78ed955126.png?v=1791169196"},{"product_id":"digital-product-42","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Can It Ham? Hackers, Hams, and the Signal Between Them\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTerry \"shoot3r\" Schanno (NV0O)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndrew \"livitup\" Ohnstad (N3OCQ)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1300 Gramercy Park: Hackers and amateur radio operators have more in common than either group tends to admit. One speaker came up through 1990s hacker culture - attending 2600 meetings and contributing to 2600: The Hacker Quarterly long before becoming a licensed amateur radio operator. The other has spent decades in amateur radio, only to discover through DEF CON that the hacker mindset had been there all along. Through the story of the \"Can It Ham?\" contest - where participants build working antennas from unconventional materials - this talk explores how RF experimentation, system-level curiosity, and hands-on exploration form a shared foundation between hackers and hams. This is a story about rediscovery, perception, and what happens when you remove labels and just start building.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592332640311,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_bc9e2428-021b-4202-8616-b540b7459702.png?v=1791169178"},{"product_id":"digital-product-43","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Cybersecurity for Space Systems: Integrating Offensive Methods, Defending System Vulnerabilities, and Space Law\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTiffany Strauchs Rad\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1400 Grand Ballroom: As space systems become increasingly integrated with U.S. critical infrastructure, cybersecurity must evolve beyond defensive approaches to include offensive techniques that expose and counter adversary capabilities. Critical services such as GPS remain vulnerable to jamming and spoofing as a result of electronic warfare, while command centers and user terminals face risks from network exploitation, malware, and credential compromise. In addition, unencrypted data links within some GEO communications systems enable interception and hijacking, and supply chain compromises introduce further threats to mission assurance and system integrity. Addressing these challenges requires cybersecurity education and training that is adversary-informed. Cybersecurity engineers must also understand the legal and policy frameworks governing behavior in space, including the Outer Space Treaty, Artemis Accords, and the Moon Treaty. This presentation highlights experiential learning initiatives such as the Cyber Drone Challenge and Cyber Space Challenge demonstrating a multidisciplinary model for educating and preparing the next generation of cybersecurity professionals to secure the evolving space domain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592335851575,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_33ce6ea5-3c66-473d-a354-8302e9434839.png?v=1791169160"},{"product_id":"digital-product-44","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"A Practical Guide to Facial Recognition Evasion\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eProwex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRambo Anderson-You\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1400 Crystal Ballroom: Sick of being recognized everywhere? Us too! This talk covers physical disguise and facial recognition evasion techniques, both in the visible light and IR spectra. Prowex will talk and demo you through methods to use, and Rambo will introduce you to a tool he open-sourced (nullface.me) that helps you check whether your facial disguise is working.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592335884343,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_e77e0ca2-0885-4220-a82c-5ee37d05ddc6.png?v=1791169144"},{"product_id":"digital-product-45","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Riding the Pipe: Hack Wi-Fi and Meshtastic via Browser With Cheap Microcontrollers\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eKody Kinzie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1400 Gramercy Park: With the support of Web Serial on Firefox, modern browsers now almost universally support the ability to flash firmware to cheap microcontrollers and control them directly. This allows microcontrollers to be used as browser-controlled radio pipes to send and receive signals in ways very useful to hackers. Kody will go over examples of hacking Wi-Fi and Meshtastic with bleeding edge techniques, and even creating beautiful visualizations of the invisible wireless world, all using a browser and low-cost microcontrollers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592335982647,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_7525bcd1-c15c-4cd4-9f5f-6a49d70d60e9.png?v=1791169124"},{"product_id":"digital-product-46","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Stop \"Thinking Of\" the Children. 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But in the end, dangerous censorship and surveillance laws will keep coming back until we change hearts and minds and move the dominant narrative from \"protecting\" kids to listening to and empowering them. Young people have been at the forefront of every social movement throughout history that has led to positive social change. But that never seems to be part of conversations about the rights and safety of young people online. Come hear from Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, about how we can build a movement of young people, parents, educators, and human rights advocates to defang the \"think of the children\" narrative and build a future where young people have safety and rights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592336179255,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_8b31eec7-7641-4f67-ac06-078be26cd2d0.png?v=1791169105"},{"product_id":"digital-product-47","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"Government Transparency in a Time of Shadows\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eKel McClanahan, Esq.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1500 Crystal Ballroom: The Trump administration claims to be the most transparent administration in history, and yet every facet of it is custom-designed to be as opaque as possible. Freedom of Information Act offices are shuttered, whistleblowers are muzzled, agencies are run on Signal, everything is overclassified, and DOGE is allowed to spread across the executive branch like a plague with no accountability or oversight. And when the law gets in the administration's way, they have the DOJ decide that it doesn't really stop them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut it's not all doom and gloom. There are still systems in place that you can use if you know how, but it's much harder every day. This talk will describe the way things are supposed to be, the way they are, and how you can still bring some sunshine to the black box the administration is trying to create.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592336212023,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_cb985e3a-ee17-48bf-b112-c82148149a36.png?v=1791169089"},{"product_id":"digital-product-48","title":"HOPE 26 (2026): \"The Enshittified Internet and How We Can All Rewild the Internet!\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLambdaCalculus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaturday 1500 Gramercy Park: The Internet was once a place where people could talk, share ideas and knowledge, express themselves with personal websites, build communities, and more. In recent years, however, we have seen that magic fade away, as the Internet of today is now a toxic cesspool of social media controlled by Big Tech, ads thrown everywhere, walled gardens, AI-generated slop, and content that locks us in by making us angry and depressed. This is not the Internet we need or should leave to the next generation of hackers! There are ways to take back and rewild the web! This talk is part informative, part educational, part historical, and pure hacker punk energy as the presenter explores how to do things like self-host your own servers; use tools to build new networks; operate decentralized services for communication, media sharing, and more; find old protocols and services old timers used to use that still exist (and helping the kids to use them, too!); and locate places and sites we can go to for the education and information we want! In all, this talk is about hacking the planet and taking our Internet... the people's Internet... back from corporate corruption and control!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592336244791,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/orange_899faca8-124f-406d-9e16-5319b47311f0.png?v=1791169063"}],"url":"https:\/\/store.2600.com\/collections\/hope-26.oembed?page=4","provider":"2600 Magazine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}