💻 Iffy Books Bootleg Hacker Conference

On Saturday, August 31st we’re hosting a bootleg hacker conference at Iffy Books from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.! We’ll spend the whole day watching recorded talks from this summer’s hacker conferences (HOPE, DEF CON, etc.) and having impromptu discussions. We’re also running a de-branding clinic, helping folks remove unwanted logos from their conference swag.

• 10:00 Librarians Are Radicalizing Their Communities About Why the Internet Is Broken – Bettinger, Esmail, Macrina, Springer, Wilson (HOPE XV)
• 10:50 The XZ Backdoor Story- The Undercover Operation That Set the Internet on Fire (DC23)
• 11:30 Circumventing Prison Tech Censorship – Jeremy Hammond, Cooper Quintin (HOPE XV)
• 12:20 Love, Hackers, and Robots: A Reflection of My First Year in the Biohacking Community – Karen Ng (HOPE XV)
• 12:50 EOL… RLY? Ending The Epidemic of Bricked and Abandoned Stuff – Bumstead, Cherne, Roberts, Gutterman (HOPE XV)
• 1:40 Group Mesh Messaging for Large-Scale Protests – Tushar Jois (HOPE XV)
• 2:30 DJ-BSD- DJing and music production in FreeBSD – Charlie Li (BSDCan 2024)
• 3:10 The Fundamentals of Veilid: cDc Breaks the Internet, and You Can Too! – Katelyn “medus4” Bowden, Paul “The_Gibson” Miller (HOPE XV)
• 3:50 Mobile Mesh RF Network Exploitation- Getting the Tea from goTenna – Erwin Karincic (Dollarhyde), Clayton Smith (argilo), Woody (DC32)
• 4:20 Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data – Micah Lee (HOPE XV)
• 5:10 They’re Still Using Balloons… – Disseminating Information Into North Korea in 2024 – Amon Poston (HOPE XV)
• 6:00 Jeremy Hammond – Electronic Civil Disobedience (DC12, 2004)

Start times may drift slightly, but we’ll try to stick to the schedule!