{"id":2882,"date":"2014-07-21T22:29:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T02:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2014-07-21T22:30:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T02:30:59","slug":"hope-x-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/hope-x-report\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Report from HOPE-X"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several of us attended HOPE-X<\/a> (aka, the tenth Hackers on Planet Earth conference) this year. Of course, the main highlights of the conference were interviews with Daniel Ellsberg<\/a>, and Edward Snowden<\/a> (including a segment where Ellsberg and Snowden were interviewing each other).<\/p>\n

Of course, there were plenty of other talks to see. Ladar Levison talked about the National Security Letter that led him to close Lavabit<\/a>. Nick Merrill talked about fighting a national security letter<\/a> while serving as president of Calyx Internet Access. (Ladar is currently working on a project called Dark Mail<\/a> and Nick’s latest project is the Calyx Institute<\/a> — both are worth checking out.)<\/p>\n

There was a talk dedicated to making musical instruments out of scrap computer parts, and another dedicated to art as a vehicle for commenting on mass surveillance (see Surveillance Camera Man<\/a>, and the Surveillance Camera Players’<\/a> production of 1984). Kevin Gallagher spoke about his work with the Free Barret Brown<\/a> campaign, and folks from #nycmeshnet<\/a> told us how they set up a mesh network in New York City.<\/p>\n

People learned to solder, and took Amateur radio exams. A panel demonstrated social engineering by making calls to the National Security Agency. Folks played games on an Atari 2600<\/a> and tinkered with old Apple computers<\/a> provided by Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And that’s HOPE in a nutshell: a collection of hackers, makers, and activists getting together to teach, learn, share, and have fun. A great place to be if you’re a Pirate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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