Talks·45 min
Randy Naraine
Plays a thirty-minute piano medley tracing music from 1729 to 2025, with live improvisation based on audience suggestions.
musicmidiimprovisation+1
Talks HOPE_16
New York City, USA · August 2025 · 92 talks
Talks from HOPE_16 (2025).
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Talks·54 min
Logan Klein
Shows how Windows EDR products are evaded through AMSI and ETW bypasses, DLL unhooking and process hollowing.
windowsattackdetection+2
Talks·52 min
Mu Yang
Traces how a volunteer scientific sleuth spots duplicated images and impossible data in published papers across several fields.
research-integrityimage-forensicsopen-source+2
Talks·44 min
Alex Muentz
Explains how U.S. law treats protest, from pickets and sit-ins to online facilitation and doxing, and where the risks lie.
riskprivacystate+2
Talks·51 min
Laura Sang Hee Scherling · Josefina Piddo
Examines how scam awareness training and policy can better protect older adults, with findings from a free community workshop program.
social-engineeringfraudawareness+1
Talks·42 min
Robert Stribley
Surveys six ways AI erodes privacy, from opaque data sharing to deepfake misuse, and suggests design guidelines to respond.
privacyaimachine-learning+2
Talks·27 min
Earl Brown
Explores how aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, shapes one pathologist's and teacher's work and thinking.
learninghackai+1
Talks·1 hr 48 min
Takes audience questions to the Electronic Frontier Foundation about digital rights and online privacy.
discussionprivacyinterview
Talks·55 min
Roman Pushkin
Traces ATM cash-out attacks from magstripe skimming to a coin dispenser flusher built from a bought unit.
hardwarereverse-engineeringembedded+2
Talks·49 min
Yael Grauer
Argues that digital security advice should fit a person's devices, risks and circumstances, and tests popular tips against that standard.
privacyriskguide+2
Talks·44 min
Josh King
Shows how Bitpart runs one-to-many Signal bots for tiplines, help desks, broadcasts, and eSIM and VPN code distribution.
privacyopen-sourceplatform+2
Talks·56 min
John Kiriakou
Traces how post-9/11 intelligence practice grew into mass surveillance and urges hackers to pursue a transparent cyber peace movement.
privacyintelligencestate+2
Talks·57 min
Alexander Urbelis · Phil Daian · Harry Halpin
Traces the link between hacker and cypherpunk history and Ethereum, covering privacy, open source and the Tornado Cash case.
panelprivacyopen-source+2
Talks·50 min
William Hutson
Shows how a neighborhood tech group runs short biweekly hackathons and how others can start one locally.
buildingopen-sourcelessons-learned+3
Talks·44 min
Adam L. Hesch
Explains how to push ideas through large organizations by using policy, stakeholders and bureaucratic process to get things done.
managementriskinnovation+2
Talks·49 min
Micah Lee · Redshift Zero · Yael Grauer
Shows how the open source Cyd desktop app automates a browser to save and delete social media posts locally.
privacyopen-sourceautomation+2
Talks·53 min
Wraps up the 2025 conference with network statistics, thanks to volunteers and hosts, and calls for feedback.
networkmonitoringvillage+2
Talks·51 min
Cora Rowena Ruiz
Examines how protesters move during internet shutdowns and why current mesh messaging tools struggle in real crowds.
internetnetworkprivacy+2
Talks·49 min
Jamie Brew
Shows how a comedy karaoke act rewrites famous songs with fragments from unusual text datasets and the software behind it.
buildingmakingopen-source+1
Talks·53 min
Aman Abhishek
Explains how activists in the West Bank use cameras to document settler and military violence, and what happens to the footage.
privacysurveillancehuman-rights+2
Talks·54 min
Brais Macknik-Conde
Traces how Polish and British codebreakers broke the Enigma cipher, from rotor deduction to the Bombe's logic.
cryptanalysishistoryintelligence+1
Talks·51 min
Mark El-Khoury
Explains how Chrome extensions are built and why their permissions are risky, then demos a scanner that rates them.
webrisktool+2
Talks·39 min
Samantha Stortz
Presents a modular scraper that collects dark web forum data to link anonymous accounts to the same user.
intelligencemachine-learningweb+2
Talks·54 min
Marlon Kautz
Argues that activists should run their own collectively managed data infrastructure instead of relying only on zero-knowledge apps.
privacyopen-sourceinfrastructure+2