SmartPlanet: US Encouraged to Allow Private Retaliation Attacks Against Hackers — Pathetic Insanity Spurred on by Incapacity of USG — + Cyber-Idiocy Meta-RECAP

U.S. encouraged to allow firms to retaliate against hackers Throwing money at creating cyberpolice forces and technology to keep up with digital threats may not be the only tactics the U.S. will employ in the future. As a meeting between President Obama and the new president of China, Xi Jinping, draws near, former senior officials …

John Maguire: Hackerspaces & Open-Source Creativity — Making Up for Educational Shortfalls

“Inspired in part by the open source movement, public spaces are emerging where people congregate to share ideas, make cool projects, teach, and brainstorm with collaborators on everything from coding to cooking. With no leaders, they have one rule: “Be excellent to each other.” Take a tour of the hackerspace Noisebridge, located in the heart …

SmartPlanet: Goodbye ‘information economy’; hello ‘hacker economy’

Goodbye ‘information economy’; hello ‘hacker economy’ By Joe McKendrick | February 3, 2013, 9:09 AM PST By now, the term “information economy” has been beaten to death. Now, we may be moving into a new realm one observer calls the “hacker economy.” That’s the word from Greg Satell, who suggests that we’re evolving beyond the …

Event: 27-30 Dec 2012 Hamburg DE European Hackers Conference

29C3: 29th Chaos Communication Congress December 27th to 30th, 2012 CCH Congress Center Hamburg, Germany, Earth, Milky Way The Event The 29th Chaos Communication Congress (29C3) is an annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) information technology and …

Robert Steele: Audio of SPY IMPROV at Hackers on Planet Earth

Several HOPES ago, Robert Steele started doing separate Q&A sessions using his knowledge as a former spy, pioneer of open source intelligence, advocate of multinational sense-making, and #1 Amazon reviewer for nonfiction. At The Next HOPE (2010), with help from those who stayed with him, he set what may be the world record for Q&A, …

Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) 2012 DVDs Now Available

You can get yourself a DVD at http://store.2600.com/honunidv.html and experience the HOPE conference in the comfort of your own home (no DRM or region restrictions). HOPE 9 Schedule     .     HOPE 9 Speakers See Also: Event: 13-15 July 2012 NYC Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) Number Nine 2012 Robert Steele at Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE)