{"title":"HOPE_16","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-ultimate-hope-full-set","title":"The Ultimate HOPE Full Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: courier; font-size: small;\" face=\"courier\" size=\"2\"\u003eIf you're a real HOPE fan, then this should make you extremely happy. For the first time ever, we're able to offer ALL recorded HOPE talks at EVERY one of our conferences in one package, at a price far below what they cost separately.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: courier; font-size: small;\" face=\"courier\" size=\"2\"\u003eYou'll receive 16 conferences full of talks in high quality MP4 format on ten flash drives. You can copy them, share them, and view them on all platforms and devices. You also get high fidelity MP3 audio files for each talk. And, of course, each collection comes with easy to navigate guides to every talk so you'll never get lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14793146007607,"sku":"ALLTD20","price":488.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/products\/hope-full-set-BW.png?v=1568106202"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-giant-usb-flash-drive","title":"HOPE_16 (2025) Giant USB Flash Drive","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: courier; font-size: small;\" face=\"courier\" size=\"2\"\u003eHOPE_16 was our third conference at St. John's University and our 16th overall. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive, both from in-person and remote attendees. This collection of the talks from the three main tracks will bring you back to the conference - or take you there for the first time if you didn't attend.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: courier; font-size: small;\" face=\"courier\" size=\"2\"\u003eThe talks come on a massive 256GB flash drive. Just d\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: courier; font-size: small;\" face=\"courier\" size=\"2\"\u003eouble-click on the hope_16.htm file to easily find your way around the nearly 100 presentations. Enjoy! And we hope to see you at our next event!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42004334542903,"sku":null,"price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1.png?v=1764537407"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-hope_16-opening-ceremonies-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"HOPE_16 Opening Ceremonies\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eFriday, August 15, 2025: 10:45 pm (Marillac Auditorium): It all starts Friday morning. Join us as we make sure everything works before another HOPE is unleashed on everyone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068588757047,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-dark-web-digger-modular-scraping-for-dark-web-intel-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"Dark Web Digger: Modular Scraping for Dark Web Intel\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eSamantha Stortz\u003cbr\u003eDominick Foti\u003cbr\u003eFriday, August 15, 2025: 11:00 am (Marillac Auditorium): Dark web forums are a major resource for the hacking community and play a large role in the spread of information, data leaks, tools, services, and related transactions. While it is common for users to keep similar usernames and identifiers across different forums to maintain their credibility, these users often need to create or change accounts. The prototype presented here looks to tie anonymized accounts to the same user, as they will likely have similar language usage, post content, tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs). The presenters developed a modular web scraper that can extract data from forums and store said data for analysis. They explore opportunities to leverage machine learning techniques to automate and enhance the process of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) analysis in the future. This includes using natural language processing (NLP) to digitally fingerprint users based on speech patterns, trend detection between users and forums, and even a chatbot to assist the tool's users in finding specific information. 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Urbelis\u003cbr\u003eFriday, August 15, 2025: 12:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): Join at least one of the \"Off The Hook\" hosts - with a likely appearance from others - for a candid, curious, and conversation-packed \"ask me anything\" session. From hacking headlines to civil liberties, tech trends to community tales, they'll tackle your toughest questions and share behind-the-scenes stories from what may be the world's longest-running hacker radio show, airing each week on WBAI-FM in New York City. 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How can major forces like big tech, artificial intelligence, and political governance be guided towards pro-social outcomes? What can individuals do? Is there hope for social media to heal divisions, rather than amplify discord? These and other topics will be addressed during this lively and far-ranging presentation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068597342263,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-getting-out-of-doge-a-discussion-with-a-former-doge-engineer-download-copy","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"Getting Out of DOGE: A Discussion With a Former DOGE Engineer\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eAdam Klasfeld\u003cbr\u003eSahil Lavingia\u003cbr\u003eFriday, August 15, 2025: 2:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): The whole world has been watching as the \"Department of Government Efficiency\" (DOGE), the partnership between Elon Musk and the Trump administration, has worked to fulfill its pledge to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. Despite promises to the contrary, there has been very little transparency about DOGE or its operations - until now. Join Adam Klasfeld, a former MSNBC legal contributor and founder of All Rise News, as he interviews Sahil Lavingia, a former DOGE engineer. This discussion aims to reveal what DOGE is really doing behind the scenes and offer the public a unique chance to ask direct questions to someone who was there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068598947895,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-how-a-handful-of-location-data-brokers-actively-track-millions-and-how-to-stop-them-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"How a Handful of Location Data Brokers Actively Track Millions, and How to Stop Them\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eBill Budington\u003cbr\u003eLena Cohen\u003cbr\u003eFriday, August 15, 2025: 3:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): In the past year, a number of investigations have revealed the outsized role of a few select companies in gathering, storing, and selling the location data of millions of devices - and by extension people - worldwide. These companies largely use technologies which power the online advertising industry in order to collect and disseminate this data. To make matters worse, this data has been both provided to private investigators on the mere assurance that they plan to work with law enforcement, and has been subject to data breaches which put the privacy of millions at risk. This talk will elaborate on the technologies, data flows, and industry players which comprise this complicated ecosystem. Most importantly, it will cover some basic steps you can perform to protect yourself against the wide array of location privacy harms your device subjects you to. The presenters will show tools and techniques they've developed to allow users to take back ownership of our devices, rather than our devices owning us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068601307191,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-activism-hacktivism-and-the-law-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"Activism, Hacktivism, and the Law\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eAlex Muentz\u003cbr\u003eFriday, August 15, 2025: 4:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): Protest has become more important and more dangerous in the U.S. It's harder to know where the line is between safe, lawful protest and actions that can get you sanctioned, arrested, or deported. Alex will discuss how to assess the risks you face in online and in-person protests, ranging from pickets to dropping docs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068601831479,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-claw-back-your-data-from-big-tech-with-cyd-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"Claw Back Your Data From Big Tech With Cyd\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eMicah Lee\u003cbr\u003eredshiftzero\u003cbr\u003eYael Grauer\u003cbr\u003eFriday, August 15, 2025: 5:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): Tech platforms can't be trusted. Oligarchs and billionaires want you to keep giving your data to their Big Tech companies for free so they can sell it and manipulate you into believing nonsense. In this talk, the Lockdown Systems collective will introduce Cyd, their open source desktop app that makes it easy for people to reclaim control over their data from Big Tech. Giving users actual control over their data is challenging when dealing with hostile, enshittified tech platforms like X and Facebook. Cyd bypasses all of that though by putting the user in the driver's seat: it runs on the user's own computer, from their own IP address, and it works by automating a web browser on their behalf - and sometimes relying on APIs, when they're available, free, and don't suck. It doesn't share any access to your accounts or your data with the Lockdown Systems collective. Attendees will learn how Cyd works under the hood, how you can use it, and how you can contribute to building tools that challenge the dominance of Big Tech.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068602912823,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-qwk-packets-and-the-muffled-spark-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"QWK Packets and the Muffled Spark\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eJason Scott\u003cbr\u003eFriday, August 15, 2025: 6:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): A deep dive into the QWK packet - a revolutionary addition to the Bulletin Board Experience of the 1980s - and the ramifications of what it represents in a very changed world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068605403191,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-hardware-hacking-meets-art-how-movie-special-effects-are-made-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"Hardware Hacking Meets Art: How Movie Special Effects Are Made\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eDavis DeWitt\u003cbr\u003eFriday, August 15, 2025: 7:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): Step into the world of movie magic with Davis DeWitt, a filmmaker, inventor, and former Mythbuster and learn how combining hardware hacking with art creates objects that do more than function: they evoke emotion and tell stories. From blowing up cars to building robots with personality, this talk will explore why it's important to tackle projects that blur the lines between disciplines.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068605665335,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-the-quantum-curtain-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"The Quantum Curtain\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eEd Ryan\u003cbr\u003eFriday, August 15, 2025: 8:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): High technology has taken on a new meaning. 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How do we find meaning in doing it? What makes us choose what we choose? Can we do better? What is important? Can we thrive and feel excellent, regardless of particular outcomes? These questions may now be more pressing than ever in our most interesting of times. Throughout our lives we tend to go with the flow of what is happening, making choices by default. Where do those choices come from? In the face of the rapidly changing and challenging times that we live in, personal and political, social and economic, can we find motivation to do what we do? Can we actually improve anything? Can we find and maintain enthusiasm to move forward into the unknown and feel good about our choices, regardless of outcome? Mitch will draw from lessons learned (and re-learned), doing his best to face the challenges while often haphazardly wandering through his 68 years on the planet. 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While concerns over privacy and national security have fueled the decision, the move also aligns with economic protectionism that benefits domestic tech giants. The fallout from this policy shift could further fragment the global Internet, leading to retaliatory restrictions against American firms and diminishing access to diverse digital platforms worldwide. In response, privacy advocates and open-source developers have taken action. StickTock.com is a free and open-source frontend for TikTok, designed to allow users to access and share TikTok content without invasive tracking, advertisements, or the need for a proprietary app. Built by the team at PrivacySafe, StickTock.com is hosted in Iceland - a jurisdiction with strong commitments to Internet freedom and privacy. Their mission is to demonstrate that digital independence and free speech can thrive in the face of restrictive policies. This talk will delve into the development of StickTock.com as a case study in open-source innovation as a means of circumventing censorship and preserving privacy. The challenges of building privacy-first digital alternatives, the broader implications of government-imposed digital barriers, and the future of decentralized platforms will be explored. 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Every dominant system works to maintain itself, and we can find strategies and stories that push to make things better.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068647575607,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-ask-the-eff-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"Ask the EFF\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eWilliam Budington\u003cbr\u003eLena Cohen\u003cbr\u003eCara Gagliano\u003cbr\u003eJosé Martinez\u003cbr\u003eSaturday, August 16, 2025: 12:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): This year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will be returning to HOPE for a special \"Ask the EFF\" panel to address some of the pressing questions the hacker community has in these troubled times. Panelists will provide updates on current EFF work, including the ongoing case against the \"Department\" of Government Oversight, educating the public on their digital rights, organizing communities to resist ongoing government surveillance, and more. 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It is the new normal. That includes the FBI taking a tech startup called Anom and inserting its own backdoor, French authorities pushing a malicious update to tens of thousands of EncroChat devices, European cops hacking another company called Sky, or any of the increasing number of related cases. In this talk, Joseph Cox, co-founder of 404 Media and author of Dark Wire will detail police tactics, pulling from his nearly ten years of covering the encrypted phone industry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068718714935,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-not-your-private-army-on-the-trail-of-cyber-ops-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"Not Your Private Army: On the Trail of Cyber Ops\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eEmma Best\u003cbr\u003eSaturday, August 16, 2025: 3:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): During the past two decades, hacktivist spaces have been infiltrated and co-opted by hostile interests, ranging from state actors to political and corporate entities and entitled oligarchs. This talk examines how these outside parties have attempted to build private cyber armies and task forces through the recruitment and exploitation of gray and black hat hackers. Special focus is given to the \"Anonymous\" brand, Western state actors, and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068731658295,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-both-sides-of-the-wire-surveillance-whistleblowing-building-cyber-peace-movement-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"Both Sides of the Wire: Surveillance, Whistleblowing, and Building a Cyber Peace Movement\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eJohn Kiriakou\u003cbr\u003eSaturday, August 16, 2025: 4:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): As a former CIA officer who exposed the agency's torture program, John Kiriakou paid the price with his freedom. In addition to disclosing wrongdoing, he understands surveillance from the inside. This talk brings together that firsthand knowledge with a challenge to the hacker community: we must pursue a cybersecurity model rooted in cooperation, transparency, and peace rather than conflict. This talk will explain how today's digital ecosystems - including both software and hardware - are vulnerable not only to technical compromise but also to political manipulation. The threats we face are not just from malicious actors or hostile governments, but from within our own systems. Co-opted code, opaque procurement processes, and surveillance-by-design continue to erode public trust. It is time to reclaim the hacker ethos and direct it toward a global cyber peace movement. Here you will learn why hackers, technologists, and civil society must lead this effort, and how the only sustainable security is one built collaboratively, with integrity and purpose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068731822135,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-phrack-magazine-72-40th-anniversary-release-party-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"Phrack Magazine #72 - 40th Anniversary Release Party\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eNetspooky\u003cbr\u003eTMZ\u003cbr\u003eSaturday, August 16, 2025: 5:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): Celebrate 40 years of legendary hacking with Phrack Magazine! Netspooky and TMZ will be dropping a special hardcopy release of their magazine, packed with cutting-edge research, underground insights, and tributes to decades of digital rebellion. Don't miss this milestone issue - crafted by the hackers for the hackers. Free, of course, as always. Grab your copy, meet the crew, and honor the zine that defined an era. The talk will explain a bit about Phrack's history, how it all started, and where it's going - the vision of the new editorial staff and how Phrack is changing. You will get a rare insight into what it takes to run an underground hacking magazine. You'll learn what it's like to work with the many authors, reading and fixing articles, dealing with obscure submissions, and what it takes to get your article accepted and become an author in Phrack. For the first time ever, a \"secret challenge\" has been included in the hardcopy magazine for you to find and to solve. 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There is no 'number portability' for email addresses. Switching costs discourage service changes. Recently, Bluesky has disrupted this model and 32 million users now use account names based on the Internet identity infrastructure, DNS - names that users can register and control directly through DNS handle providers. This presentation will describe three standards proposals extending this approach. @nywhere extends the authentication approach to allow DNS handle accounts to be used at any Internet resource, not just those running ATprotocol. @nyone combines the DNS handle approach with JSContact to provide account portability and secure exchange of credentials for end-to-end secure communication. @nything allows network connected devices to become true Internet things with an Internet DNS name, WebPKI credentials, and using @nywhere and @nyone to support access control.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068769701943,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-diy-police-scanner-with-sdrs-and-open-source-software-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"DIY Police Scanner With SDRs and Open Source Software\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003enop\u003cbr\u003eSaturday, August 16, 2025: 7:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): Police accountability requires transparency, but access to relevant information is frequently hindered by collaborators in government or the police themselves. Fortunately there is one source of info we can take into our own hands: their radios. Police in the United States largely use the digital, trunked radio system \"Project 25.\" We can listen in to this using spare computers, a few Software Defined Radios (SDRs), and open source software. Even better, we can go far beyond what very simple broadcastify-style dispatch streams offer, like having our own archives of radio traffic. Based on an actual system that sees real-world use, this talk will cover how to set up your very own DIY police scanner. 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From that foundation, the discussion will cover practical steps that web services and individual users can take to reduce their legal attack surface, minimize their risks, and maximize their protection from invasive data disclosures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068837138487,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-hackers-got-talent-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"Hackers Got Talent\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eJason Scott \u0026amp; Friends\u003cbr\u003eSaturday, August 16, 2025: 10:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): It just wouldn't be HOPE without another installment of \"Hackers Got Talent.\" This is an opportunity for hackers from all around the planet to show off their talents in this cheeky display of hacker (and totally non-hacker) skills. Just sign up at InfoDesk and the talent you decide to share is entirely up to you. (Seriously, anything you're good at is a talent.) Hacker archivist Jason Scott will again be on hand to keep everything moving. Judging will be done by a combination of panelists and audience members. First place wins a valuable prize! 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Hesch\u003cbr\u003eSunday, August 17, 2025: 10:00 am (Marillac Auditorium): At their core, all bureaucracies are, fundamentally, information systems, containing the ability to store information, compute information, and share information over a network. This means they all can be hacked. In this funny, enriching, and ultimately inspirational talk, the concept of \"bureaucracy hacking\" will be discussed as a way to make a difference in any organization of any size, even (perhaps most especially) when you feel like \"just a cog in the machine.\" The talk will be suitable for a novice audience of any background, with high level references to traditional information security, hacking, and of course social engineering principles. What will make it unique and interesting will be particular emphasis on the exploitation of the emergent and unique properties of bureaucracies. It will be most actionable by young, idealistic entrants into the workforce. And, it may yet inspire the younger versions of ourselves inside each of us that our (warranted) cynicism has led us to ignore or forget (at our peril). Stories will come from the speaker's (and others') experiences at organizations like Meta, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy, and others. It is intended as a rebuttal to, and toolkit for, countering \"Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2600 Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42068941242423,"sku":null,"price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/3445\/files\/web_banner.hope_16.v1r1_866c91b9-79a9-45bd-91ad-0bbd2c964f1a.png?v=1768783456"},{"product_id":"hope_16-2025-hacking-the-future-at-tesla-science-center-download","title":"HOPE_16 (2025): \"Hacking the Future at Tesla Science Center\" (Download)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eMichael Caprio\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Velez\u003cbr\u003eEd Wilson\u003cbr\u003eSunday, August 17, 2025: 11:00 am (Marillac Auditorium): The year 2026 marks the 170th birthday of Nikola Tesla and will also be the year that the grounds of his Wardenclyffe laboratory will at last open to the public. 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Human rights organizations first started distributing cameras in the mid-2000s to facilitate documentation, and today, essentially every anti-occupation activist in the West Bank and Jerusalem carries some combination of video cameras, smartphones, and body cameras to deter and document state-settler violence. The activists also take it upon themselves to take the videos to journalists, human rights organizations, courts, and elsewhere; recently, this activism was the focus of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. 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We will reminisce about what happened this weekend as if it was a decade ago. And we can guarantee there will be many fun stories to share. 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Thanks to applications in emergency communication, sensor monitoring, and censor-proof encrypted chat, Meshtastic is exploding in popularity even as the cost for making nodes is going down. This talk will cover the basics of Meshtastic, setting up and customizing nodes, plus outlining the tips and tricks to building affordable custom Meshtastic nodes, learned from building custom Nibble Meshtastic nodes for the conference. Attacks against Meshtastic and issues observed in the wild will also be covered. 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American adults over the age of 60 filed over 100,000 cybercrime-related complaints to the FBI in 2023 and experienced losses amounting to $3.2 billion. Older adults are the most vulnerable to cybercrime, and studies have found they feel ashamed to disclose having been victims. Although important initiatives exist, such as AllState's training sessions on cyber safety and AARP's free fraud helpline, there's a noticeable shortage in relevant resources. This research examines emerging cybersecurity awareness resources and policies supporting older adults, drawing from interviews with FINRA and the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). 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