Version 0.17 Aug. 16, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.16 Aug. 16, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have moved a session around: “Vendors, Villages, and More!” (Aug. 15, 2025, 10 a.m. → Aug. 16, 2025, 12:30 p.m.)
Version 0.15 Aug. 16, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have a new session: “Vendors, Villages, and More!” .
Version 0.14 Aug. 16, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.13 Aug. 15, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We sadly had to cancel a session: “The Shape of the Legal Battlefield for InfoSec Professionals at Work” by Ken Vedaa
Version 0.12 Aug. 15, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have moved a session around: “Turning Leaks Into Leads With OCCRP Aleph” by Ezana Ceman, Klil Eden (Aug. 16, 2025, 10 p.m., Tobin → Aug. 17, 2025, noon, Little Theatre).
Version 0.11 Aug. 15, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have a new session: “Solder Your own Nugget” .
We sadly had to cancel a session: “Solder Your Own Cat-Themed Wi-Fi Hacking Tool” by Felix Orozco
We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:
- “Build Your Own Meshtastic Node: Off-Grid, Encrypted LoRa Meshnets for Everyone!” by Kody Kinzie (Aug. 16, 2025, noon → Aug. 15, 2025, 4 p.m.)
- “Learn Beginner Soldering With the Meow Mixer Badge” by Michael Raymond (Aug. 15, 2025, 1 p.m. → Aug. 16, 2025, 3 p.m.)
- “Wi-Fi Hacking Self-Defense for Beginners” by Kody Kinzie (Aug. 16, 2025, 3 p.m. → Aug. 15, 2025, 1 p.m.)
Version 0.10 Aug. 15, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We sadly had to cancel a session: “Bitcoin Poker: Satoshi’s Lost Game and Its Decentralized Revival” by Mattias Bergstrom
Version 0.9 Aug. 15, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.8 Aug. 15, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.7 Aug. 14, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have a new session: “"Off The Hook" AMA” by Alexander J. Urbelis .
Version 0.6 Aug. 14, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have moved a session around: “Turning Leaks Into Leads With OCCRP Aleph” by Ezana Ceman, Klil Eden (Aug. 15, 2025, 6 p.m., Little Theatre → Aug. 16, 2025, 10 p.m., Tobin).
Version 0.5 Aug. 14, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We sadly had to cancel a session: “The Five Pillars for Rewriting History and Culture” by Alexander J. Urbelis, Daniel Nowak, Roel Schouwenberg
Version 0.4 Aug. 4, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have new sessions!
Version 0.3 Aug. 3, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
Version 0.2 Aug. 3, 2025
We released a new schedule version!
We have new sessions!
- “NymVPN: The First Real-World Decentralized Noise-Generating Mixnet for Anonymity” by Harry Halpin
- “The Quantum Curtain” by Ed Ryan
- “StickTock.com: An Open-Source Alternative in the Age of Digital Protectionism” by Sean O’Brien
- “Human Augmentation: Hacking Human Perception and Performance With Technology: Benefits and Dangers” by Lucas Potter, Xavier Palmer, Vivekanand Pandey Vimal
- “Small Budget, Big Protection: Cyber Defense for SMBs” by Robert Wagner
- “Hack the Violin Part 2: The Advanced Stuff - This Time There’s AI” by Andrew Morican, Ebmbat
- “Build a Tech Community in Your Neighborhood, One Hackathon at a Time” by William Hutson
- “The Struggle for Connection in a Fragmented World: Rebuilding Third Spaces” by Jack Gangi
- “How I Used and Abused LLMs to Get Top 250 on HTB” by Rambo Anderson-You
- “Hackerspace Village (Day 3)” by Bufo
- “Design for Neurodiversity: Creating Neuro-Inclusive Spaces” by Dorothy Howard
- “ATM Hacking: Past and Present” by Roman Pushkin
- “Hackerspace Village (Day 1)” by Bufo
- “QWK Packets and the Muffled Spark” by Jason Scott
- “The Shape of the Legal Battlefield for InfoSec Professionals at Work” by Ken Vedaa
- “Offworld Voyage: Can Training for Mars Exploration Also Address Human Adaptation to Climate Biodevastation on Earth?” by Scott Beibin, Elizabeth Jane Cole
- “HOPE_16 Badge - No Badge, No Problem” by Vinicius Fortuna, Victoria Joh
- “Meshtastic Attacktastic” by Dave “Heal” Schwartzberg
- “CRXaminer - Deep Dive Into Chrome Extensions (Plus Tool)” by Mark El-Khoury
- “Hackerspace Village (Day 2)” by Bufo
- “Bridging the Decentralized Gap: Shared Hacker Values, Cypherpunk Roots, and the Future of Blockchains” by Phil Daian, Harry Halpin, Alexander J. Urbelis
- “Toilets on the Air Contest (Day 2)” by Unnamed user
- “Not Your Private Army: On the Trail of Cyber Ops” by Emma Best
- “How Law Enforcement Agencies Compromise Entire Encrypted Chat Platforms” by Joseph Cox
- “A Sleuth’s Stories on Detecting and Revealing Large-Scale Research Fraud” by Mu Yang
- “The Computer Underground Scene - Past, Present, and Future” by TMZ, Skyper, John Threat, Bill Budington
- “Anarchist Village (Day 3)” by kworker
- “From Activism to Hacktivism: Resisting Digital Repression” by Gabrielle Joni Verreault, Elina Castillo-Jimnez, Jane Eklund, Ken Mayers
- “Ham Radio Village (Day 3)” by Unnamed user
- “Activism, Hactivism, and the Law” by Alex Muentz
- “Packets Over Any Wire: Alternative Networking Mediums for Hackers” by Haxedalot
- “Fediverse Village (Day 1)” by Unnamed user
- “Phrack Magazine #72 - 40th Anniversary Release Party” by Netspooky, TMZ
- “The Free Software Movement: Where It Came From, What It Means to Me, and What It Could Mean to You” by Craig Topham
- “Bitpart: 5-In-1 Platform for Activism Over Signal” by Josh King
- “Piracy Is the Past, Present, and Future of Streaming” by Abigail De Kosnik, Benjamin De Kosnik
- “AI Is Undermining Our Privacy. What Can We Do About It?” by Robert Stribley
- “Hacking for Social Justice” by Danacea Vo
- “The Present and Future of Online Discourse” by Harper Reed
- “Systems of Dehumanization: The Digital Frontlines of the War Against Bodily Autonomy” by Daly Barnett
- “Media, Vibe Coding, and the Long Tail” by Lydia Laurenson
- “RDP Spray and Pray: Research on Modern RDP Attacks From Spray to Exploit” by Tess Mishoe
- “A Red Team Exercise 2025, 15 Years Later” by Tom Brennan, Logan Klein, Anthony Martini
- “Zodiac Killer Marketing: How I Used Codes, Cyphers and Nefarious Means to Launch a Covert Food Business” by Chef Adam Sobel
- “Turning Leaks Into Leads With OCCRP Aleph” by Ezana Ceman, Klil Eden
- “HOPE_16 Opening Ceremonies”
- “Things You Wish You Knew About Software Testing” by Dan Nagle
- “Esolangs as a Hacker Folk Art” by Daniel Temkin
- “Bitcoin Poker: Satoshi’s Lost Game and Its Decentralized Revival” by Mattias Bergstrom
- “Ham Radio Village (Day 1)” by Unnamed user
- “Ham Radio Village (Day 2)” by Unnamed user
- “Exploiting Emergent Property-Based Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models” by David Kuszmar
- “How a Handful of Location Data Brokers Actively Track Millions, and How to Stop Them” by Lena Cohen, Bill Budington
- “Anarchist Village (Day 2)” by kworker
- “Eco-Hacking Desire: The Intersection of Pornography, Sex, and Environmental Impact” by Jasmin Hagendorfer
- “Aging Cyber Safely” by Laura Sang Hee Scherling, Josefina Piddo
- “Print, Build, Fly, Heal: 3D-Printed Autonomous Planes for Medical Delivery in Rural Mexico” by Dana Gretton, Jaguar Kristeller
- “The Future of Email Is Open” by Dejan Štrbac, William Lessard
- “Toilets on the Air Contest (Day 3)” by Unnamed user
- “Computational Techniques for Making Karaoke Harder” by Jamie Brew
- “Badge Village (Day 2)” by Unnamed user
- “Spooky Action at a Discount: DIY Meshtastic Nodes” by Kody Kinzie
- “Both Sides of the Wire: Surveillance, Whistleblowing, and Building a Cyber Peace Movement” by John Kiriakou
- “The ARTS Open Framework” by Sabar Dasgupta
- “Hacking the Tech-Industrial Complex: Learning to See Invisible Systems” by Seth Godin
- “DIY Police Scanner With SDRs and Open Source Software” by nop
- “Ask the EFF” by William Budington, Lena Cohen, Cara Gagliano, José Martinez
- “Leading and Survival When TSHTF - A Lighthearted Look at the End of the World” by George Sandford
- “The Trials and Tribulations of Building Your Own Phone” by Wesley Appler
- “ICEBlock and the Age of Digital Activism” by Joshua Aaron
- “Tips on Living Life in Interesting Times” by Mitch Altman
- “Communication and Movement in Internet Shutdown Protests: Rethinking Mesh Messaging” by Cora Rowena Ruiz
- “Itinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring)” by Amelia Marzec
- “Anarchist Village (Day 1)” by kworker
- “PrivacyTests.org: Web Browser Leak Testing” by Arthur Edelstein
- “Blockathon Digital Escape Room (Day 3)” by Unnamed user
- “Getting Out of DOGE: A Discussion With a Former DOGE Engineer” by Adam Klasfeld, Sahil Lavingia
- “HOPE_16 Closing Ceremonies”
- “The Political and AI Singularity Are Inevitable - Or Are They?” by Roel Schouwenberg
- “Invisible Ink of Compression” by XlogicX
- “Toilets on the Air Contest (Day 1)” by Unnamed user
- “Blockathon Digital Escape Room (Day 2)” by Unnamed user
- “Quantum Computing and AppSec: Preparing for the Post-Quantum Threat” by Sheshananda Reddy Kandula
- “Bureaucracy Hacking - Creating Organizational Exploit Chains for Good” by Adam L. Hesch
- “Cracking Enigma: A Chronology of Cryptographic Breakthroughs” by Brais Macknik-Conde
- “Hacking the Future at Tesla Science Center” by Ed Wilson, Michael Caprio, Jeffrey Velez
- “Off-Grid Data Running in Oppressive Regimes: The Pirate Box Project (and Sneakernet!)” by LambdaCalculus
- “Dark Web Digger: Modular Scraping for Dark Web Intel” by Samantha Stortz, Dominick Foti
- “Hacking Search: Kagi’s Revolt Against the Ad-Tech Machine” by Vladimir Prelovac
- “Hardware Hacking Meets Art: How Movie Special Effects Are Made” by Davis DeWitt
- “Solving My Identity Crisis” by Dr. Phill Hallam-Baker
- “Hackers Got Talent” by Jason Scott
- “Unearthing Air” by Todd Whitney
- “When the Lawman Comes Calling - Government Data Demands and Online Platforms” by Fred Jennings
- “Badge Village (Day 3)” by Unnamed user
- “Badge Village (Day 1)” by Unnamed user
- “New Journalism: Reimagining Information Networks From the Ground Up” by Patrick Boehler
- “Expanding the BioArtBot Color Palette - A Beginner’s guide to Lab Automation and Biosafety” by Danny Chan
- “Counter-Surveillance as Activism: Using Cameras Against State Violence in Israel/Palestine” by Aman Abhishek
- “Planning a Project That Has No Budget” by Travis Southard
- “Blockathon Digital Escape Room (Day 1)” by Unnamed user
- “How to Be Positively Transgressive: Hacking Culture for Good” by Johannes Grenzfurthner
- “Into the Fediverse” by Evan Prodromou
- “The Five Pillars for Rewriting History and Culture” by Alexander J. Urbelis, Daniel Nowak, Roel Schouwenberg
- “Top Ten: Democratic Open Source Software Defined Radio and Amateur Radio Applications That Matter Today” by Steve Bossert
- “Fediverse Village (Day 3)” by Unnamed user
- “rim: Reclaiming Personal Data Sovereignty in the Age of Wearables” by Jaguar Kristeller, Dana Gretton
- “Data Autonomy: Counter-Surveillance Strategies for Civil Society” by Marlon Kautz
- “Claw Back Your Data From Big Tech With Cyd” by redshiftzero, Micah Lee, Yael Grauer
- “Back to Basics: Building Resilient Cyber Defenses for Multiple Use Cases” by Yael Grauer
- “Aphantasia: A Personal Reflection” by Dr. Earl Brown
- “PrivacySafe and 3NWeb: Engineering User-Centric Digital Sovereignty” by Mikalai Birukou
- “Fediverse Village (Day 2)” by Unnamed user
We have moved a session around: “Lockpick Village With Lockpick Extreme (Day 1)” by Daniel Finegold, Bob Hermes, Christine Bachman (Aug. 15, 2025, 10 a.m. → Aug. 15, 2025, 11 a.m.)
Version 0.1 Aug. 1, 2025
We released our first schedule!
