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Hackers of Planet Earth or HOPE is an annual conference sponsored by the hacker magazine 2600 The Hacker Quarterly. There have been four conferences to date.

Conferences

• H.O.P.E Hackers On Planet Earth (New York City, August 13, 1994-August 14, 1994). This conference marked 2600 The Hacker Quarterly's 10 year anniversary. Well over 1000 people were in attendance, including speakers from around the world. Admission included a 28.8 kbit/s local network.

• Beyond H.O.P.E. (Puck Building in New York City August 8, 1997-August 10, 1997). There were 2000 attendees. Garth Brooks opened the conference and Bell Technology Group helped to support the hackers. A TAPP reunion and a live brodcast of Off The Hook took place. After the conference, Emmanuel Goldstein slept for 14 hours. Admission included a 10 Mbit/s local network.

• H2K (Hotel Pennsylvania, July 14, 2000-July 16, 2000). More than 2300 attended this conference, the first H.O.P.E. to run 24 hours a day for the three dats it was on. Jello Biafra gave a keynote speech. In this historic cultural exchange between the punk rock icon/free speech activist and the hacker community, Jello managed to draw powerful connections, despite not having any actual computer experience, and the EFF raised thousands of dollars.The conference admission included a working ethernet and a T1 link to the internet.

• H2K2 (Hotel Pennsylvania, July 12, 2002-July 14, 2002). This conference also ran 24/3 with a theme of the United States of America homeland security Advisory System, the con included two tracks of scheduled speakers, a third track reserved for last minute and self scheduled speakers, a movie room, Retrocomputing, musical performances, a State of the World Address by Jello Biafra, keynotes by Aaron McGruder and and discussions on the DMCA and DeCSS. Freedom Downtime premiered on Friday evening (July 14). The conference admission included wireless 802.11b coverage and places to link in with wired ethernet, an open computer area for access to a 24-hour direct uplink to the Internet at "T-1ish" speeds, made available by , as well as an active internal network.

• The Fifth Hope (Hotel Pennsylvania, July 9, 2004 July 11, 2004. had a theme of Propaganda and commemorated the anniversaries of both the H.O.P.E. cons and Off the hook (with a live broadcast of the show from the con like at beyond hope). Keynotes speakers were Kevin Mitnick, Steve Wozniak and Jello Biafra. The conference admission included access to a four layer public network with two T1 lines + backup links to the internet via a, various wired means, a and a .

• Abuse of Authority and Standing Up To Authority
• Access Control Devices
• Security(both for computers, the internet and for the Non-Digital World)
• Bullies on the Net
• Caller ID
• Conspiracies
• The Conscience of a Hacker
• Cryptography
• Cult of the Dead Cow
• Databases
• Privacy
• Telephony
• DeCSS
• Demonstrations, Hacktivism, Civil Disobedience and Activism
• Human Rights
• The DMCA
• Educating Lawmakers on technology
• spying
• Biometrics and Facial recognition
• government/corporate influence
• wireless security, 802.11b, scanners, frequency counters, intercepting/spoofing RF A/V feeds, STL's, pagers, infrared signs, night vision, electronic surveillance
• Pirate Radio, Webcasting and Shortwave
• Nanotech
• National Intelligence and Public Intelligence
• Indymedia
• Intellectual Property
• Lockpicking
• LPFM
• Open Source
• The Patriot Act
• Protection
• Proximity Cards
• RetroComputing
• Social Engineering
• Steganography
• Strategic Thought
• Education and Teaching
• Tracking Criminals
• Much about current issues and the state of the world including Kevin Mitnick 2600
• Being A Good Samaritan Online
• IDS Products
• Identity Theft
• Cracking the Hacker Myth
• Ethics
• The Military
• GSM and CDMA
• Media
• Hardware & Electronics
• MTV
• Napster
• Nootropics
• Mathmatics
• Robotic Graffiti
• DNC/RNC
• Selling Out

Jello Biafra, Lee Azzarello, Loyd Blankenship , Matt Blaze, Eric Blossom , Adam Brate, Lynea Diaz-Hagan, Maximillian Dornseif, Jon Erickson, Avi Freedman, Paul Garrin, Mike Glasser, Mike Godwin, Rop Gonggrijp , Robin Gross, Jay Hanson, Craig Harkins, Edward Hernstadt, Mark Hosler, Tarikh Korula, Ryan Lackey, Lazlow, Mike Levine, Josh Marcus, Declan McCullagh, Aaron McGruder, Andy Mueller-Maguhn, Deborah Natsios, Kevin Prichard, Steven Rambam, John Ramsey, Douglas Rushkoff, Anatole Shaw, Tyler Shields, Richard M. Smith, Robert Steele, Pete Tridish, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Peter Wayner, Allan Weiner, Barry "The Key" Wels, Cryptome founders John Young and Deborah Natsios, and Paul Zurek,