Talks·47 min
Lucas Potter · Xavier Palmer
Traces bioweapons from ancient siege tactics to modern dual-use research, weighing AI risks and defensive norms.
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Talks HOPE XV
New York City, USA · July 2024 · 95 talks
Talks from HOPE XV (2024).
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Talks·54 min
Jason Scott
Traces how hacker history and digital artifacts fade over time, and what archivists can do to preserve them.
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Talks·56 min
Elizabeth Barry
Shows how the open-source Polis deliberation system helps groups find shared ground and how governments and movements use it.
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Talks·35 min
Welton Chang
Examines how extremist content on fringe social platforms drives real-world violence and how AI helps analysts sift through it.
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Talks·53 min
Erica Burgess
Shows how generative AI helped produce a working RCE payload, a captcha bypass and other attack chains against web apps.
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Talks·47 min
Explores how AI and solarpunk ideas might shape the future of computing.
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Talks·38 min
Saul D. Robinson
Critiques how generative AI is trained and sold, and argues hacker ethics offers a way past degraded technology.
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Talks·28 min
Describes cybersecurity work and practice beyond the usual corporate and government settings.
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Talks·46 min
Aisling Fae
Explores how animist beliefs about souls in objects can inform ethical thinking about computers and AI systems.
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Talks·50 min
Cara Gagliano · Beryl Lipton · Bill Budington · Hannah Zhao
Panelists from the Electronic Frontier Foundation answer audience questions on surveillance, data brokers, and digital rights.
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Talks·25 min
Florin Badita
Presents a tool that automates much of the FOIA request process, from sending emails to extracting data from replies.
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Talks·51 min
Bill Budington
Traces how malware preinstalled on cheap Android TV boxes grew into a residential proxy botnet sold through major resellers.
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Talks·53 min
Phillip Hallam-Baker
Argues that switching costs keep users locked into platforms and proposes portable, user-controlled accounts as the remedy.
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Talks·49 min
Shows how forgotten texts hidden in analog video signals can be recovered and preserved.
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Talks·32 min
Lucas Rooyakkers
Shows how chaotic signals can hide radio transmissions from detection and compares covert communication schemes.
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Talks·44 min
Laura Upegui
Uses sci-fi films, series and books as cautionary tales to examine how choices about AI could shape very different futures.
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Talks·50 min
Jeremy Hammond · Cooper Quintin
Examines how private prison technology vendors monetize communications and what censorship looks like for incarcerated people.
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Talks·48 min
Greg Newby
Surveys how hackers can help cut emissions, improve green energy, counter disinformation and build climate resilience.
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Talks·1 hr 7 min
Recaps how HOPE XV ran behind the scenes, from network and safety teams to volunteers, villages and thank-yous.
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Talks·51 min
Alex Marthews · Stephen Perez
Traces the fight in Congress over warrantless surveillance under Section 702 and the reform efforts that stalled.
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Talks·2 hr 50 min
Inverse Phase · Kudri
Traces the demoscene from 1980s cracking groups and BBS culture to today's algorithmic computer art and demo parties.
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Talks·51 min
Luke Iseman
Explains how stratospheric sulfur balloons could offset warming, along with their cost, regulation and side-effect trade-offs.
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Talks·1 hr 51 min
Cory Doctorow
Explains how digital platforms decline in quality, why it happened now, and which policy levers could reverse it.
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Talks·51 min
Paul Roberts · Lodrina Cherne · John Bumstead · Lucas Gutterman
A panel examines why connected devices get abandoned or bricked at end of life, and what could change that.
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