Notices by 2600 Magazine (2600@mastodon.online)

We would be remiss not to credit the journalists who broke this story at @WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

There is nothing illegal about naming inexperienced people currently accessing sensitive government data at the behest of Elon Musk.

They are:
Akash Bobba
Edward Coristine
Luke Farritor
Gautier Cole Killian
Gavin Kliger
Ethan Shaotran

This is a major security breach.

SPREAD

Happy New Year from all of us at 2600 & the now annual HOPE conference! We hope 2025 is a great one for the entire hacker community.

Major Announcement Regarding the HOPE Conference:

Effective immediately, HOPE will happen EVERY summer, not every two years. HOPE_16 will be August 15-17, 2025!

https://www.2600.com/content/major-announcement-concerning-hope-conference

"Off The Hook" starts at 7 pm ET at wbai.org & 99.5FM in the NYC Metro area. No "Overtime" this week or next!

Support HOPE! Get your tickets before Monday's cutoff! @hopeconf https://www.hope.net/tickets.html

Next batch of @hopeconf talks will be announced shortly.

You have only 10 DAYS to submit yours before the deadline! https://www.hope.net/cfp.html

2600 meetings on Friday! Full listing at https://www.2600.com/meetings. Email meetings@2600.com to add new meetings!

Attention: A big HOPE announcement is about to go out via email. If you're on our list, keep an eye out for it (especially Gmail users). Visit hope.net to join the list!

Did you get our latest HOPE announcement? Gmail sent it to spam for our own HOPE-related accounts! And this is after we applied fixes to prevent exactly that. So check your spam folder! We don't know why Google is doing this.

Great piece by @pluralistic on 2600, @hopeconf, & more! https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/#hack-the-planet

An update on HOPE XV: https://www.2600.com/content/hope-ticket-sales-update

HOPE XV is happening! https://www.2600.com/content/hope-xv-officially-announced-special-ticket-deal-week