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7:41 am on July 18, 2014 · hack (3), hackers (5), hope (8), hope x (2), webcast (110)

WEBCAST FRIDAY-SUNDAY: Hackers on Planet Earth Conference in NYC #hopex

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Hope X livestream

Hope X livestreamHOPE X will take place on July 18, 19, and 20, 2014 at the Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC. H.O.P.E. stands for Hackers On Planet Earth, one of the most creative and diverse hacker events in the world, happening since 1994. Three session tracks running late into the night present provocative and enlightening speakers such as Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg. The event will webcast live via the Internet Society’s livestream channels.

What: Hackers on Planet Earth – HOPE X
Where: Hotel Pennsylvania NYC
When: July 18, 19, and 20, 2014
Agenda: http://www.hope.net/grid.html
Webcast 1 (Manning): https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/hopex1
Webcast 2 (Serpico): https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety2/hopex2
Webcast 3 (Olson): https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety3/hopex3
Twitter: #hopex

12:42 am on July 10, 2012 · freedom box (2), hack (3), internet freedom (81), OpenITP (12)

TODAY: Circumvention Tools Hackfest in NYC #netfreedom

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Open ITP

Open ITPThe Open Internet Tools Project has partnered with FreedomBox, InformSec and ISOC-NY to host a circumvention tools hackfest in NYC right before HOPE. The hackfest started yesterday and there are still three days left to plan, code and learn! If you want to hack on anti-censorship or anti-surveillance tools, bring your project, bring your skills and bring your friends. This event will be focused on writing code and solving design problems. We won’t have any long presentations (there will be enough of those at HOPE), though we will have lightning talks and will give away a door prize or two.

Where: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, 116th and Amsterdam (Room 546)
When: July 9 – 12, 10 am
Who: Privacy and free communication hackers like you
Contact:  kaurin at openitp.org
Info: http://openitp.org/?q=node/12

4:44 pm on April 13, 2010 · domain (1), hack (3), hijack (1)

Grand Theft Internet – the tale of a domain hijack

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Like any other small businessman, he assumed his Internet account was basically safe. Instead, he found himself another victim of the latest 21’st century crime wave, when his valuable domain name, VL.com, was hijacked in a high-tech heist. Told by a first-person witness to the crime, reconstructed from forensic evidence compiled in the aftermath, this gripping account takes you inside the mind of the attacker, showing in lay terms how domain thiefs bypass security at Internet registrars, and why domain name theft is a growing problem on the Internet that could strike any of us.

Read the story:  Grand Theft Internet .