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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Disclaimer: un-cleaned-up copypaste from a shared piratepad for livenotes of this talk. Originals here: http://piratepad.net/hopex Community owned and operated cellular networks in rural mexico, with rhizomatica Maka Muñoz and Peter Bloom Maka begins with context: ´when I say mexico, what images come to your mind?´ The crowd: drugs, corruption, tacos, […]
Disclaimer: un-cleaned-up copypaste from a shared piratepad for livenotes of this talk. Originals here: http://piratepad.net/hopex Hashtags: #hopex and #asksnowden Moderator: Daniel Ellsberg will be up first, then a short break, then Snowden will connect from Russia. There will be a 1 min standing ovation for Snowden when he shows up. […]
DISCLAIMER: this is un-cleaned-up shared livenotes, cut and paste from this piratepad: http://piratepad.net/hopex The talk opens with Vivian showing several clips from the film The Hacker Wars. The film includes interviews with Thomas Drake, who blew the whistle on Stellar Wind. He was prosecuted with a 10 felony count indictement, […]
Disclaimer: un-cleaned-up copypaste from a shared piratepad for livenotes of this talk. Originals here: http://piratepad.net/hopex Trevor Timm, Founder of Freedom of the Press foundation is also in the room. He’ll be selecting questions from Twitter. For people in the Press: our questions come from our attendees. Welcome, Edward Snowden![loud applause. […]