H2K2/Speakers
From HOPE
[edit] Lee Azzarello
Lee Azzarello is a musician who works with computers. When he's not creating generative compositions with the SuperCollider programming language, he works as an audio engineer and network admin for a small art studio in Manhattan.
[edit] Bernie S.
Bernie S. started playing with microcomputers in 1978 when he built one using RCA's 1802 microprocessor (since it controlled the first Viking Mars Lander, he though it was cool). Shortly thereafter he built an intelligent video terminal (a big deal back then) and 110 baud modem, then started hacking the local Sperry Univac mainframe at Mansfield State College. Since then he's stayed involved with computers and telecommunications, and pushed the envelope a bit too much for the U.S. Secret Service.
[edit] Loyd Blankenship
Loyd Blankenship has at various points throughout his career been an author, game designer, sports reporter, computer programmer, multimedia developer, cook, musician, and convenience store clerk. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, two dogs, and three cats, where he is developing Palm applications for use in political canvassing. You may also know him as The Mentor, author of "The Conscience of a Hacker."
[edit] Matt Blaze
Matt Blaze has been involved in all sorts of stuff, from evaluating Carnivore and Key Escrow for the government to writing the crypto file system to writing dozens of papers on crypto. He was the co-designer of swIPe, a predecessor of the now standard IPSEC protocol for protecting Internet traffic. In 1994, he discovered a serious flaw in the U.S. government's "Clipper" encryption system, which had been proposed as a mechanism for the public to encrypt their data in a way that would still allow law enforcement to have access to it.
[edit] Eric Blossom
Eric Blossom has been designing telecommunications software and hardware systems for 25 years. He founded Communications Security and Starium, where he designed and manufactured portable secure telephony devices that operate over standard phone lines. He also founded the gnuradio project, which seeks to develop an open source, multiprotocol RF receiver/transmitter.
[edit] Adam Brate
Adam Brate is a freelance science and technology writer who has followed the Information Revolution around the globe to places such as India, Argentina, and Finland. His first book, with David Bunnell, was Making the Cisco Connection, The Story Behind the Real Internet Superpower. His latest release is Technomanifestos: Visions from the Information Revolutionaries.
[edit] The Cheshire Catalyst (Richard Cheshire)
The Cheshire Catalyst (Richard Cheshire) was the last editor/publisher of the TAP Newsletter of the 1970's/1980's, while hacking the World Telex Network. He has pretty much rested on his laurels since then, only coming out every couple of years to speak at HOPE conferences and to carry on the fight to make web sites accessible to non-graphic Internet users. His web site is at CheshireCatalyst.com.
[edit] Jim "Cips"
Jim "Cips" received an Associate's Degree in nanofabrication from PSU in 2000 (first graduating class in the U.S. for that degree). Since then he has stayed in college learning and getting degrees in electronics, optoelectronics, and computer networking and picked up skills in microradio, hacking, lockpicking, and other activities along the way.
[edit] The Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc)
The Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) has worked since 1984 to disrupt the digital status quo. For nearly two decades, this collective of freethinkers and malcontents has structured their activities on a set of principles involving personal liberty, security, and availability of access. Opposed by commercial enterprises and government institutions the world over, the Cult of the Dead Cow has focused public attention on problems affecting the communication networks, including insecure systems, intrusive monitoring, and corrosive censorship. In recent years, the cDc has involved itself in online hacktivism, as well as human rights generally. The cDc is probably best known for releasing the remote administration tool Back Orifice, and its open source successor Back Orifice 2000.
[edit] Cyberjunkie
Cyberjunkie has been part of the BBS scene in England since the late 80's and became part of the hacker scene in the early to mid 90's. He's the co-founder of the British hacking group The AoHP. He now works as a security consultant and lecturer to organizations such as the British Ministry of Defence (the other MoD).
[edit] Delchi
Delchi has been covertly undermining the known universe as a member of the cDc Ninja Strike Force. Weaving together 15 years of experience from satellite earth stations, NOC operations, consulting, physical security audits, appearances in comic books, and behind the scenes convention work, he has earned the name "The Entropy Technician." Now all he needs is a tour bus, a knowledge of brain surgery, and an oscillation overthruster.
Nelson Denoon. Nelson Denoon is a picker, a grinner, a lover, and a sinner. He gets his loving on the run.
[edit] Lynea Diaz-Hagan
Lynea Diaz-Hagan has been involved with the New York City Independent Media Center since the fall of 2000, working with the sound collective and the outreach working group. With a background in music, film, and theater production, she is interested in the relationship between creative culture and technology.
[edit] Maximillian Dornseif
Maximillian Dornseif is a hacker turned law scholar. Once involved with the Chaos Computer Club in Germany, he is now a Ph.D. student at the University of Bonn. He also still appears at the annual CCC Congress in Berlin to trade information with fellow hackers.
[edit] Dragorn
Dragorn is the author of the wireless network detection program Kismet, several wireless security articles, and is an all-around paranoid Linux security guy.
[edit] Jon Erickson
Jon Erickson has over seven years of experience in the realm of computer security. He has spoken at computer security conferences around the world. He works as a cryptologist and enterprise security designer for a health care infrastructure consulting company in San Francisco.
[edit] Avi Freedman
Avi Freedman started the first ISP in Philadelphia in 1992 (netaxs.com - now part of FastNet) and grew it into a regional backbone and hosting provider on the east coast. In 1998 he became VP of Engineering at AboveNet, a global hosting and backbone provider (though MFN has since driven it into the ground). In 1999 he went to Akamai where he's in charge of the overall network architecture and technology, though he spends most of his time on special projects for special customers. Freedman also was a founder of HavenCo on the Principality of Sealand in 1999.
--Paul Garrin== Paul Garrin founded the name.space project in 1996 to catalyze the divestiture of the U.S.- sanctioned monopolies that govern the Internet and bring new and expressive extensions to the Internet Domain Name System while reforming domain policy, an initiative that continues to this day. Garrin recently co-founded Free.The.Media!, a non-profit, member-supported autonomous network and cultural think tank whose purpose is to reclaim public space on the net and preserve free expression, privacy, and access for all through education, community ownership of media infrastructure, and the development of open source software. Garrin is also known for capturing on video a controversial "police riot" in New York City back in 1988, one of the earliest sparks that ignited the "camcorder revolution."
[edit] Mike Glasser
Mike Glasser is a manufacturers' rep for electronic security products. He is a certified registered locksmith licensed by New York as a burglar and fire alarm installer as well as a member of both the Associated Locksmiths of America and the North Jersey Master Locksmith Association. And of course, he is also a phreak and hacker, as he's been most of his life.
[edit] Mike Godwin
Mike Godwin served as the first Staff Counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he informed users of electronic networks about their legal rights and responsibilities, instructed criminal lawyers and law enforcement personnel about computer civil liberties issues, and conducted seminars about civil liberties in electronic communication for a wide range of groups. Currently a senior policy fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, he also remains an "IP Land" columnist for The American Lawyer magazine, and is a contributing editor at Reason.
[edit] Emmanuel Goldstein
Emmanuel Goldstein is editor and co-founder of 2600, chief organizer of the HOPE conferences, host of WBAI's "Off The Hook," director/producer of the documentary "Freedom Downtime," and the target of lawsuits and threats from all elements of Corporate America. He has been playing with and breaking phone systems and computers since his childhood.
[edit] Rop Gonggrijp
Rop Gonggrijp founded ITSX in 1998. He began hacking in his teens and founded the magazine Hack-Tic in 1989. In 1993, he was a co-founder of the Netherlands' first public Internet provider (xs4all.nl). He also played a role in the founding of De Digitale Stad, Amsterdam's Digital City. He is well known in the Netherlands and abroad as an expert in computer and telecommunications security. He has regularly been an expert witness for court cases, and is a guest lecturer on the Information Revolution and its political impact.
[edit] Gonzo
Gonzo is a member of the now disbanded L.O.S., and has been involved with the hacker community for 12 years. He is also editor-in-chief of the new ezine Reprimand, which can be reached at www.reprimandmag.com.
[edit] Eric Grimm
Eric Grimm and his law firm CyberBrief, PLC, specialize in the resolution of technology-related legal disputes. Most recently, he represented 2600 when we were sued by the Ford Motor Company for pointing www.fuckgeneralmotors.com to www.ford.com. And, not surprisingly, he won.
[edit] Robin Gross
Robin Gross is an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and specializes in digital music and intellectual property policy. In June 1999, she founded EFF's Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFE) that works to protect freedom of expression in digital media. Gross frequently publishes and speaks on intellectual property, digital copyright, and the DVD/DeCSS and MP3 legal wars.
[edit] Gweeds
Gweeds is a hacker activist (not a hactivist) and wants to be your friend!
[edit] Jay Hanson
Jay Hanson has been a collector of personal electronics since his first digital watch over 20 years ago. His obsession with the development and evolution of integrated circuit-based products has led to his career in commercial radio in Connecticut and Maine. He co-hosts a shortwave radio show and web site on the golden age of electronics, both called "Pocket Calculator."
[edit] Craig Harkins
Craig Harkins has been operating Anteater Radio International since the 80's from an 18-wheeler truck over pirate shortwave.
Edward Hernstadt. Edward Hernstadt, part of 2600's legal team during the DeCSS case, specializes in First Amendment and media, intellectual property, employment discrimination/Title VII law, and entertainment litigation. He has written and spoken numerous times about the DMCA, including on National Public Radio and CNNfn.
[edit] Mark Hosler
Mark Hosler is a founding member of Negativland, the experimental music and art collective that has been recording music/audio/collage works since 1980, producing a weekly three hour radio show ("Over The Edge") since 1981, and performing live on occasional tours throughout America and Europe. Negativland have released 18 CDs, one video, and one book ("Fair Use: The Story Of The Letter U And The Numeral 2") since 1980. They were the subject of the 1995 feature film "Sonic Outlaws" by Craig Baldwin, and composed the soundtrack/sound design for a critical 1997 documentary on advertising, "The Ad and the Ego". Negativland coined the term "culture jamming" in 1984, and this phrase is now often used to describe the work of many different media artists and activists.
[edit] Javaman
Javaman is a Philadelphia-based hacker with a background in RF engineering, specifically high UHF/low SHF. He has done design work for major telecommunication companies, the military, and universities. Past projects have included RF amplifiers, phase shifters, web-based remote instrumentation control, and data acquisition.
[edit] Philip J. Kaplan (known as Pud)
Philip J. Kaplan (known as Pud) is a 25-year-old computer programmer, creator of fuckedcompany.com, and uber-geek. In May 2000, on Memorial Day weekend, Kaplan started his own consultancy, PK Interactive as well as fuckedcompany.com. He emailed the web address to six friends, took off on a planned trip to Rio, and came back to 20,000 new registered users, press interviews, and just a few "cease and desist" letters. Now attracting over 3.5 million unique readers per month and a flurry of press attention, fuckedcompany.com has turned Kaplan into a hero amongst millions of fellow "dilberts" throughout the world - and into a nemesis to dot-com executives and venture capitalists.
[edit] Tarikh Korula
Tarikh Korula is an artist, computer programmer, and media activist. His work has been exhibited internationally from Siggraph to London's ICA. He received his Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU in 1999. Korula is a founding member of the New York City Independent Media Center, where he helped start the sound collective in August of 2000.
[edit] Ryan Lackey
Ryan Lackey is the CTO and co-founder of HavenCo Ltd. He lives on the Principality of Sealand full-time.
[edit] Lazlow
Lazlow is a nationally syndicated host of a daily technology update aired on hundreds of radio stations nationwide. He gives listeners an honest and opinionated look inside the world of technology. For years, he has been warning of the danger of media conglomeration in the world of radio - and today, media giant ClearChannel owns over 1200 radio stations with no end in sight. Lazlow has seen the industry from the inside - and it ain't pretty.
[edit] Leo
Leo is a fan of alternative science and spends his time posting news article links on his live journal. He is currently a writer for e-zine Reprimand.
[edit] Mike Levine
Mike Levine is the host of The Expert Witness Radio Show on WBAI-FM in New York. He is a veteran of 25 years of covert and deep cover operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration and one of its most highly decorated officers. He is also a world recognized court-qualified expert witness, trial consultant, and lecturer in all matters relating to human intelligence, covert operations, narcotics trafficking, police procedures, RICO and conspiracy investigations, and the use of force. Levine has testified as an expert in over 500 civil and criminal trials internationally and domestically. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller Deep Cover and the national best-seller The Big White Lie.
[edit] Lucky225
Lucky225 is a writer for 2600 Magazine and Hacker's Digest. At age 19, he has been involved in telephony for as long as he can remember and has a vast variety of knowledge about phones - everything from regular telephones, payphones, cellphones, and voicemail systems to ANI, Caller ID, PBX's, switches, and much more.
[edit] Robert Lupo aka "V1RU5"
Robert Lupo aka "V1RU5" is a network security engineer and holds several network and security certifications. He lectures nationwide on computer viruses and network security and has been featured on CNN.
[edit] Bryan Maloney
Bryan Maloney first saw a computer when his father brought home a Macintosh in 1984. He grew up using the old Mac to call up BBSes and experiment with scripting and wardialing, but eventually took to the philosophical implications of computers in the world. He currently works in high end server engineering for Sun Microsystems.
[edit] Josh Marcus
Josh Marcus is a community activist and programmer living in Philadelphia. He has been a developer on the open source projects that underlie the Philadelphia Independent Media Center, including the Slashcode based open publishing system and the studio-transmitter link software that powers WPEB 88.1 FM. He is also a contributor to various open source projects, and the Director of Technology of Datarealm Internet Services, a Philadelphia based webhosting company.
[edit] Declan McCullagh
Declan McCullagh is the chief political correspondent and a senior writer for CNET's news.com. An award-winning journalist, he writes and speaks frequently about technology, law, and politics. For the last four years, he has been the Washington bureau chief for Wired News. Previously he was a reporter for Time Digital Daily, Time's The Netly News, and Time Magazine, as well as a correspondent for HotWired. McCullagh moderates Politech, a well-known mailing list looking broadly at politics and technology that he founded in 1994.
[edit] Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder is the writer and illustrator of the daily comic strip Boondocks which has been entertaining, educating, and outraging members of the populace for years. Some of these strips have focused on hacking and have come closer to accuracy than virtually anything else in the newspapers they appear in. McGruder graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Afro-American Studies with a concentration in Social and Cultural Analysis, and has no intention of ever returning to school for a graduate degree of any sort. Occasionally he can be heard co-hosting the Soul Controller Mix Show on WMUC 88.1 FM, College Park, Maryland. McGruder also has an unhealthy and expensive affinity for Star Wars merchandise and Japanese animation.
[edit] Mixter
Mixter has been into full disclosure since 1999 and is known for writing code such as the NSAT scanner, LibMix, and TFN (early DDoS technology), as well as some technical and political papers (mixter.warrior2k.com/papers.html). He worked as a security consultant in Israel at Ehud Tenenbaum's 2XS Ltd. and is now core developer at RedICE, an IT security company specializing in cryptography-based communication. Since mid 2000 he's been a member of Hacktivismo and is strongly interested in both technical aspects and political pro-freedom goals of the movement, and in creating the projects with which we will achieve those goals.
[edit] Andy Mueller-Maguhn
Andy Mueller-Maguhn has been a vital member and spokesperson for Germany's Chaos Computer Club since the 1980's. He's become even more dangerous by getting elected (by a landslide) to the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) where he's been keeping a watchful eye on that organization and reporting back to people like us.
[edit] Wanja Eric Naef
Wanja Eric Naef is a graduate of the Department of War Studies at King's College in London. He is currently reading for an MSc in Information Security at the Information Security Group, Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway. He has a particular interest in Information Operations and Critical Infrastructure Protection. He is also a partner with the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) in supporting the InfraGard Manufacturing Industry Association. He also maintains the Infocon newsletter.
[edit] Deborah Natsios
Deborah Natsios has practiced architecture in New York City since 1981, and taught in graduate architecture programs at Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and The University of Texas. She received a BA in Mathematics from Smith College in 1975 and a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University in 1979. She currently operates cartome.org, an archive of news and spatial/geographic documents on privacy, cryptography, dual-use technologies, national security, and intelligence.
[edit] The New York City People's Law Collective
The New York City People's Law Collective is the first standing anarchist legal collective that is dedicated to aiding activists. They have been providing aid since the Republican Convention of 2000 and have worked with groups ranging from community gardeners, black blockers, the mentally ill, and anti-globalization protesters in Washington, New York, Quebec, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. They also provided help for the raisethefist.com case.
[edit] Greg Newby
Greg Newby is a professor at UNC Chapel Hill with a Ph.D. in Information Transfer. He teaches Unix/Linux systems administration and information security, and has a research project to develop open source search engines. He is a founding member of the North Carolina chapter of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and the CEO of Project Gutenberg.
[edit] Nightstalker
Nightstalker has been a Commodore enthusiast since the mid-80s, and a retrocomputing/retrotechnology fan. He's been a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow since 1990. He built an Altair back in the 70s, as well as a Don Lancaster designed TV typewriter terminal with a 110 baud acoustic coupled modem to use with it. Bending over printed circuit boards, soldering iron in hand, for almost 40 of his 50 years, Nightstalker has probably inhaled far too many fumes from molten solder.
[edit] Uzi Nissan
Uzi Nissan came to the US from Israel in 1976 and used his surname to identify a number of business enterprises. The first was Nissan Foreign Car in 1980 (while Nissan Motors was still known as Datsun). In 1987 he started an import/export business known as Nissan International, Ltd. and in 1991 he founded Nissan Computer Corporation. On June 4, 1994, he registered the domain name nissan.com to promote Nissan Computer's related products and services on the Internet. In 1996 he registered the domain name nissan.net and began offering Internet services, including dial-up and direct connections to business. In 1999 legal action was instituted by Nissan Motors for trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and cybersquatting. He's spent a fortune since then literally battling for his name.
[edit] Sam Nitzberg
Sam Nitzberg is a consultant with an extensive background in software engineering and information security. He has bachelors and masters degrees in Computer Science and Software Engineering, respectively, as well as several years of doctoral studies in Computer Science. He has published and presented on subjects relating to computer security, information warfare, technology and ethics, and military informatics in numerous national and international venues. His web sites include www.iamsam.com and www.NitzbergSecurityAssociates.com.
[edit] Mr. Ohm
Mr. Ohm has been involved in the New York City 2600 community for four years. He is an advocate for the exploration of archaic technology and the use of hacking in politically and socially conscious roles, including hacktivism and electronic sabotage.
[edit] Porkchop
Porkchop started with 2600 when he began the live streaming of the radio show Off The Hook over the Internet in 1997. Since then, he has been involved in many projects including filming and editing Freedom Downtime. He spends his days in upstate New York finishing school and using technology in an attempt to effect social change there.
[edit] Kevin Prichard
Kevin Prichard is a particle physicist, neurosurgeon, and martial arts master, and also plays in a band. When he's not working as an open source software developer, he can occasionally be heard on the New York City Indymedia radio stream (http://nyc.indymedia.org/sound/) discussing civil liberties, online freedoms, and other critical issues of the day. In his copious free time he contributes to the ROACH project at Indymedia (Ratty Old Arrays of Computer Hardware).
[edit] Steven Rambam
Steven Rambam is a licensed private investigator and the owner and CEO of Pallorium, Inc., an investigative agency with offices and affiliates throughout the world. During the past 21 years, he has conducted and coordinated investigations in more than 50 countries and in nearly every U.S. state and Canadian province. For the past eleven years, he has also been the owner and director of PallTech, an online service which provides database and investigative support services to investigative agencies, special investigative units (SIUs), and law enforcement. PallTech offers interactive and non-interactive access to nearly 600 data sources, including five major proprietary databases such as Skiptrace America and BusinessFinder America. The Skiptrace America database, which currently contains more than 5.3 billion unique records, is believed to be the largest individual reference database in the United States, excluding those databases maintained by the three U.S. credit bureaus. Ten years ago Rambam forced the tightening of airport security in Texas airports by publicly exposing those airports' security flaws. In 1997 he exposed the presence in Canada of 162 Nazi war criminals and also conducted investigations which resulted in the prosecution and conviction of war criminals on murder charges. He is also the inspiration for "Rambam the detective" in Kinky Friedman's series of murder mysteries.
[edit] John Ramsey
John Ramsey founded Ramsey Electronics 30 years ago and has been producing innovative kits for electronics hobbyists and hackers ever since. His low-power radio transmitter kits have received worldwide acclaim, and are used by thousands of microbroadcasting stations around the globe.
[edit] RenderMan
RenderMan is an anti-virus critic who has been making a hobby of annoying anti-virus vendors and other large companies for the last two years. He also fought successfully for the recategorizing of Netbus as a trojan by several anti-virus vendors.
[edit] Rudy Rucker, Jr.
Rudy Rucker, Jr. is an ex-dot-commer who owns and operates a local ISP in San Francisco. Fascinated with pop culture, he makes websites which amuse some and trouble others.
[edit] Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff is the author of eight best-selling books on new media and popular culture, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say, and the novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy. His radio commentaries air on NPR's All Things Considered, and his monthly column on cyberculture is distributed through the New York Times Syndicate and appears in over 30 countries. Rushkoff lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world. He hosts and writes documentaries for PBS, Channel Four, and the BBC.
[edit] Rev. Sergey
Rev. Sergey, having emigrated from Russia, is a member of the Barbelith Underground, founding member of the Weird Science Club, and is an ordained minister with the Universal Light Church. His site can be reached at [www.enamon.com www.enamon.com].
[edit] ShapeShifter
ShapeShifter became a bit of a national figure shortly after the H2K conference in 2000 when he was jailed for a week during the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia and held along with three others for over half a million dollars bail. The odd thing was that there was no actual evidence that he did anything wrong and eventually all charges were dismissed. But it was a frightening example of how individuals can be targeted simply because they speak out. (He had given a talk on planned protests at the RNC during H2K.) ShapeShifter is also the layout artist for 2600.
[edit] Anatole Shaw
Anatole Shaw is an independent researcher and engineer, self-employed professor, and longtime advocate of practical cryptography.
[edit] Tyler Shields
Tyler Shields is the director of OSSTMM (Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual) Knowledge Transfer project and co-founder/lead technical resource for Security Sciences Corporation ([www.securitysciences.com www.securitysciences.com]). He is heavily involved in penetration testing, information reconnaissance, and developing the OSSTMM Security Testing Certification training courses for the USA. His name is known to many open source security projects and a few old-school hacker groups.
[edit] Tray Smee
Tray Smee has been a network administrator and computer programmer since 1995. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional and is involved with many different aspects of communications equipment, from programming 2-way radios, pagers, and cell phones to modifying them. He has been an amateur radio operator since 1996. He loves to take things apart to see what makes them tick. Reverse engineering and learning protocols for different types of systems are what take up most of his free time.
[edit] Richard M. Smith
Richard M. Smith once headed the nonprofit Privacy Foundation but now focuses on technology related to security issues. He's been described by The New York Times as "perhaps the nation's most vocal authority on data privacy." A former software entrepreneur, Smith is credited with uncovering dozens of incidents in which high technology companies were trying to breech consumers' privacy by secretly tracking online movements. He has teamed up with the ACLU to show that facial scanning technology would be largely ineffective in identifying terrorists. Smith operates a web site that reports "computer bites man" stories, named ComputerBytesMan.com.
[edit] StAtIc FuSiOn
StAtIc FuSiOn has been infatuated with computers, electronics, and technology since he first laid hands on a computer. After getting his feet wet in hacking at an early age he instantly found his calling which led to many years of exploring, learning, and practice in computer security. He has become a regular at the Calgary 2600 meetings over the last few years and has come to know many wireless hacking enthusiasts in the area. Recently he has become interested in wireless 802.11b, advanced aspects of TCP/IP, various spoofing methods and authentication bypass, and social engineering - due to its relation to another one of his passions: psychology.
[edit] Robert Steele
Robert Steele, a 25 year veteran of the U.S. national security community and counter of oss.net, is the author of The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political - Citizen's Action Handbook on Fighting Terrorism, Genocide, Disease, Toxic Bombs, and Corruption. He gave the keynote address back in 1994 at the first HOPE conference. He's been described by writer Bruce Sterling as "10,000 times as dangerous as the best of the hackers, for he is successfully hacking the most challenging of bureaucracies, the U.S. intelligence community, and doing it for the right reasons."
[edit] Pete Tridish
Pete Tridish is one of the founders of Radio Mutiny, 91.3 FM in Philadelphia, and its successor RadioVolta.org. He is also a founder of the Prometheus Radio Project, an organization that organizes for low power radio and provides free assistance to LPFM applicants. He actively participated in the FCC rulemaking and the grassroots organizing campaign that led up to the adoption of LPFM. He tours the country regularly to help start community radio stations and fight for democratization of media.
[edit] Siva Vaidhyanathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. He is currently working on a book about Napster and the ways we regulate our information ecosystem. He has written for many periodicals, including The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Chronicle of Higher Education, msnbc.com, The New York Times Magazine, Salon.com, and The Nation. After five years as a professional journalist, Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at the University of Texas, Wesleyan University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University.
[edit] Peter Wayner
Peter Wayner is the author of 11 books, the latest two being Translucent Databases and Disappearing Cryptography. He lives in Baltimore.
[edit] Allan Weiner
Allan Weiner operated a famous pirate radio station back in the 80's - Radio New York International. Now he operates a 50,000 watt shortwave radio station in Maine called WBCQ.
[edit] Barry "The Key" Wels
Barry "The Key" Wels is one of the founders of TOOOL, The Open Organization of Lockpickers, a European lockpick sportclub. He also assists in professional lockpick/safe opening seminars given by the famous Paul Crouwel in the Netherlands. More info on lockpicking as a sport can be found on www.lockpicking.org or www.toool.nl.
[edit] John Young
John Young has been a New York City architect since 1970, and taught in graduate architecture programs at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, and through Urban Deadline, which he co-founded in 1968. He received a BA in Philosophy from Rice University in Houston in 1962, a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice in 1963, and a Master of Science in Architecture from Columbia University in 1969. He currently operates cryptome.org, a site that has become a vital source of free information on the net and which "welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and blast protection - open, secret, and classified documents."
[edit] Paul Zurek
Paul Zurek had his electronic eyes opened at the age of 7 when he received his very first handheld game, a Parker Brothers Merlin. He graduated to coin-ops and then computers when his mom bought him a $30 TI99/4A from K-Mart. Today he pursues all sorts of old electronic devices from games to stereos to computers.
