   The Next HOPE
  Has anyone here attended on of the Hackers on Planet Earth conferences? The Next HOPE is July 16th-18th in NYC. I had wanted to go to the Last HOPE, but it didn't work out with my schedule. It seems pretty interesting.   
  I wanted to go to a few of the HOPE conferences, but I think I kind of "grew out of" the 2600 scene around the same time the magazine mostly became about how to trick library filtering software into displaying different webpages.I did pick up the (excellent) 2600 anthology book though. Some really smart reading in there.   ;  I've never read the magazine. I had a friend that was interested in going to the Last HOPE and wanted to make a weekend event out of it but that fell through. Now, I'm involved in something that brings me into contact with the event itself. I may still not actually go, $85 and travel+hotel to NYC doesn't sound so great.   