I’m at HOPE Number Six

I’m attending HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) in NYC this weekend. (It’s walking distance from House 2.0, so if you’re thinking of coming down and need a place to crash, drop me a line.)

Stopped in this afternoon to see a really fun lock-picking demonstration by Barry “The Key” Wels and Marc Tobias (workshops running all weekend) and to hear Richard Stallman talk about free software (inspiring, and a little frightening.)

There’s some great stuff coming up this weekend, including an un-conference-esq “Third Track“, sessions on phone and VOIP phreaking, social engineering (Kevin Mitnick’s also talking), consumer electronics hacking, the end of privacy, Kitchen Hacking, and a session on collecting resources to create a physical “Hacker Space” for creative hacking and collaboration (reminiscent of Coworking.)

If you’re attending and want to meet up, ping me.