Next weekend (July 21-23) is the 6th HOPE conference, the biannual 2600 conference. This year, there are three talks that I’m going to be at (at least): Seth Hardy’s “Breaking down the web of trust”, and J. Salvatore Testa II’s “Proactively Secure Programming Techniques”, and the ever present “social engineering” talk.

HOPE is always an interesting time. I often refer to it as the immature DefCon of the East. It’s not really about technology as much as about the culture that surrounds “hackers”. There are a lot more panels on the social end of things than the technical, but you can be surprised – there’s a talk on Quantum Cryptography this year. Some of the speakers I met two years ago, and it sounds like they’ll be speaking about the same things they did then – being an active underground community.

With completely anonymous T1 Internet access, interesting things happen on the mezzanine level that is always great to have traffic logs of too

This is one of those conferences that you keep your wireless card disabled, don’t plug your computer in anywhere unless you want to reload your OS, and take the subway to the furthest ATM you can think of. And I’m looking forward to this….

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