Image by Willow Brugh. Over the weekend, I attended HOPE X, the 10th Hackers on Planet Earth conference, organized by 2600 Magazine. HOPE is my favorite hacker conference, and a strong contender for my favorite conference overall, because although content is tech-heavy, it’s not really about technology. HOPE is a […]
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Liveblogged at HOPE X. Quinn Norton In the past year, there has been a lot of attention towards major adversaries, like the NSA. Most of the time, we’re actually up against small adversaries. Most adversaries are just jerks. Small adversaries target everyone, with whatever technology they have. It might be […]
Liveblogged at HOPE X. James Vasile, Open Internet Tools Project Infrastructure is any mechanism that helps developers and users engage. OpenITP believes that community infrastructure should come from the community. We’re used to infrastructure like roads: someone else builds and maintains it. A lot of FOSS projects build their own […]
Liveblogged at HOPE X. Garrett Robinson, Security and Privacy Engineer, Mozilla William Budington, Developer, EFF Yan Zhu, Technologist, EFF The Freedom of the Press Foundation processes payments for WikiLeaks and raises funds for encryption and free speech initiatives. Secure Drop is their open source whistleblower platform. Thomas Drake leaked info […]
Liveblogged at HOPE X. The speakers have cautioned that this talk is not legal advice. Nate Cardozo, Attorney Kurt Opsahl, Attorney Adi Kamdar, Activist Peter Eckersley, Technology Projects Director Eva Galperin, Global Policy Analyst It’s been a busy year at the EFF. They’ve been focusing a lot on the national […]