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223: 180:, along with participants from various other countries. Attendees exchanged knowledge and experience on computer systems, dial-up connections, computer viruses and hacking, which wasn't yet illegal. At the conference lectures were held on feminism and computers, models for artificial intelligence and on computer-human interaction. The joint declaration of the conference started with "The free and infuttered flow of information is an essential part of our fundamental liberties and shall be upheld in all circumstances." 434: 364: 231: 406: 508: 257:
between August 10 to August 12, 2001. This site, which hosts one of Europe's major network operations centers, was unique in allowing the conference to have, at the time, the largest Internet uplink speeds of any conference: a fiber-optic connection in excess of 1 gigabit per second. The conference
311:. The only technology permitted in the place was a television, a DVD player running the movie, and a Turkish (electric) samovar for brewing tea. A fishtank was set aside for drowning mobile phones which rang in the tent (it remained empty). 1063: 29: 1091: 129:, but both organisers and visitors saw the combination actually as one event. This combination proved to be successful and the concept has been repeated every four years since, up to 1070: 113:
in the Netherlands from August 2, 1989 to August 4, 1989 Visitors were people with an interest in technology (mainly computers) and the - at that time - relatively unknown
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The conference was held primarily outdoors. Logistically speaking, the network structure was quite a feat, with approximately 15 km of
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also known as OHM, was an outdoor hacker conference that took place in the Netherlands from July 31 to August 4, 2013.
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This conference was run by Stichting HAL2001, a not-for-profit organization. Attendance was 2900.
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never fully utilized the bandwidth; maximum bandwidth use was approximately 200 Mbit/s.
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What Hackers Yearn (WHY2025) will be held on August 8-12, 2025 at Geestmerambacht,
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Driving force behind the event were people associated with the hacker magazine
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took place from August 8 until August 10, 1997 at the campsite Kotterbos in
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On years where it is not held, two other similar events are held instead:
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from August 13 to August 16, 2009. It had an attendance of 2300 people.
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backbones, as well as supplying power feeds for the tents' computers.
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The main political topic of the conference was the fight against the
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magazine, and currently it is organized by the IFCAT Foundation.
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on behalf of Paradiso. It was supported by a department of the
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The Galactic Hacker Party and conference were attended by
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It was situated on a large camp-site near the small town
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and similar anti-hacker legislation under way in Europe.
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Along with the party, a conference was held, named ICATA
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Index

template
Infobox recurring event
considered for merging
Hacker con
hacker convention
the Netherlands
Hack-Tic
Chaos Communication Camp
Electromagnetic Field
Paradiso
internet
Still Hacking Anyway
Hack-Tic
Rop Gonggrijp
Patrice Riemens
Caroline Nevejan
University of Amsterdam
Chaos Computer Club
2600: The Hacker Quarterly
Lelystad
Hack-Tic
Almere


hacker con
University of Twente
Enschede
Netherlands
DMCA
2001: A Space Odyssey

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