Maurice Wessling on Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:42:02 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-bold] International Conference 'Hackers at Large' in the Netherlands |
Press release 6 August 2001 International Conference 'Hackers at Large' in the Netherlands The building of the network of HAL2001, the international hacker event on the campus of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, has begun. HAL2001 will be the biggest open-air hacker event in the world with 2500 visitors who will sleep, work and collaborate in tents. The conference program consists of 100 speakers from 15 countries. The conference and festival will start officially at Friday 10th august and will end on Sunday 12th august. The network that is being built starting Monday 6th August has a 1 Gb uplink to the internet and a glass fibre backbone. Every private tent on the campsite will be connected to this network. The huge amount of computers is powered by generators with a total capacity of 1,5 megawatts, enough for 25,000 light bulbs. Main topics of the conference will be security, privacy, intellectual property issues and various political issues related to computer networking. Some of the highlights of the conference are: Hacker Ethics 1984 - 2001, a panel discussion with Emmanuel Goldstein (2600), Rop Gonggrijp (Hack-Tic) and Andy Mueller-Maguhn (CCC). Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP, will speak about voice encryption. A panel of security experts discusses Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. John Gilmore will address copy prevention versus freedom of speech. Drive-by-hacking, a demonstration of the poor security of wireless networking. Presentation by 'Mixter' of automated exploit tools. The full program can be found at: http://www.hal2001.org/ Hackers at Large is the sequel to the Galactic Hacker Party (1989), Hacking at the End of the Universe (1993) en Hacking in Progress (1997) which all took place in the Netherlands. ---- Note for the editor: contact information press@hal2001.org telephone: +31 53 4892425 mobile: +31 6 29018922 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold