Hackers on Planet Earth with Greg Newby and Mitch Altman

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Hackers on Plant Earth - Hope with Mitch Altman and Greg Newby

Hackers on Planet Earth(HOPE), is a biannual volunteer-driven hacker conference that got started in 1994. On the hacking and phone phreaking's magazine 2600 10th anniversary. In this episode of Hacker Talk, we are joined by two hackers that are behind the curtain at the HOPE conference.

Greg Newby and Mitch Altman are both two impressive Hackers, helping the

HOPE conference be the amazing hacking conference it is today.

In this episode we cover:

How Hope has evolved during the years

Greg and Mitch's journey's into the hacking mindset

Problems with big pharma and the importance of biohacking

HOPE moving location from Hotel Pennsylvania to Saint John's University

Hackerspaces

exploring technology

Phone phreaking

Life-changing events at HOPE

Demoscene with original hardware from the 1980'ies at HOPE

Making 8-bit generated art and music

Running a physical hacker conference

Hidden gems at HOPE

How can you can run your own conference

Logistics behind the HOPE conference

Links:

https://hope.net/

https://petascale.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Altman

https://2600.com

https://archive.org/details/HOPE-3-The_Hacker_s_Code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_on_Planet_Earth

The Hacker Talk team will be at May Contain Hackers which will take place

in the Netherlands at the same time as the HOPE conference. Find us

for some stickers and Hacker Talk swag!