David Fisher : What is Noise Blog

Peter Jackson
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Technological innovations of the last few centuries have changed our relationship with Planet Earth. With fossil fuel supplies in decline, energy demand growing, and worrying climate change predictions, the future doesn’t look great. The presentation will start by briefly looking at the challenges that lie ahead. What can we as hackers, both individually and collectively, do to be more environmentally sustainable? How could we use our skills in the event of the situation reaching crisis point?

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This is part of a series of posts that I am making in order to create an RSS feed for The Last HOPE talks and other media in order to share and download the audio files easily with software such as iTunes. The feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatIsNoiseTheLastHope

Jens Ohlig
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How do you get a hacker space started? How do you manage it once you have a space? This talk presents wisdom collected over a decade of building sustainable hacker spaces in Germany. Through “design patterns,” Jens and Pylon will cover the essentials of assembling an initial group, finding the perfect location, and managing the community. Earlier versions of this talk have inspired the creation of the U.S. hacker spaces NYCResistor and HacDC. This version will inspire and help you create a hacker space where you live!

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This is part of a series of posts that I am making in order to create an RSS feed for The Last HOPE talks and other media in order to share and download the audio files easily with software such as iTunes. The feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatIsNoiseTheLastHope

Phil Lapsley
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As part of his book on the history of phone phreaking, Phil submitted hundreds of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to various three-letter government agencies. In this talk he will give an overview of how FOIA works, describe the type of documents you can get via FOIA, and discuss some of the typical FOIA stumbling blocks and workarounds to them. He will then focus on FOIA from a “hacker’s perspective” and will examine the recent launch of several FOIA/hacker related websites such as GetGrandpasFBIFile.Com, GetMyFBIFile.Com., TvShowComplaints.Org, UnsecureFlight.Com, WhatDoTheyKnow.Com, and GovernmentAttic.Com.

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This is part of a series of posts that I am making in order to create an RSS feed for The Last HOPE talks and other media in order to share and download the audio files easily with software such as iTunes. The feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatIsNoiseTheLastHope

John Threat, Mark Abene aka Phiber Optik

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Hackateer is an episodic adventure series about a team of hackers who are being chased by quasi-government agencies. The show blends a reality Do It Yourself tech show with a scripted spy/adventure narrative shot in anime style. Embedded within the entertainment of an episode, viewers learn how to take everyday technology and use it in ways they never dreamed of and not always originally intended. The show also features interrogations with top hackers and tech people from around the world that are kidnapped by the Hackateers. Hackateer is also unique in that the show is cast with real underground hackers and the stories are drawn from world famous hackers and their real life exploits.

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This is part of a series of posts that I am making in order to create an RSS feed for The Last HOPE talks and other media in order to share and download the audio files easily with software such as iTunes. The feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatIsNoiseTheLastHope

Lazlow
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A talk by Grand Theft Auto IV cowriter and coproducer Lazlow focusing on that phenomenal project as well as what’s been going on in media in the last decade. Beginning in 1996, corporations began gobbling up every newspaper, billboard, radio and TV station in the United States. Ironically, since then, readership and ratings have plummeted, resulting in entertainment executives and editors programming even more sensationalist and desperate content. Lazlow discusses how parody of the media in video games, on TV, and online can often garner a larger audience reaction than the media establishment itself. He will describe why the mainstream media invents crises, and the reaction by the media and Hollywood establishment to the growing popularity of interactive worlds where players are celebrities rather than smug starlets tittering for TMZ. How can you hack the media? In this interactive talk Lazlow talks about his work in radio, video games, and the future of the media, democracy, and the role of comedy in it.

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This is part of a series of posts that I am making in order to create an RSS feed for The Last HOPE talks and other media in order to share and download the audio files easily with software such as iTunes. The feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatIsNoiseTheLastHope