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10:30 – 11:00  in  Grand Ballroom

HOPE 26 Opening Ceremonies

11:00 – 11:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Cameras, Cops, and Cell Towers: A Field Guide to Modern Surveillance

by Michael Raymond

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12:00 – 12:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Building a Community Arcade Cabinet

by Frank Chiarulli, Rose Hall, Sophie Downward

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13:00 – 13:50  in  Grand Ballroom

From Source to Story: Cryptography and Psychosocial Care Protects Public Interest Journalism

by Jen Helsby, Harlo Holmes

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14:00 – 14:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Leaking and Investigating the Epstein Files

by Emma Best, Mikael Thalen, Alexander J. Urbelis, Raphael Satter, Kyrie

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15:00 – 16:30  in  Grand Ballroom

Privacy’s Defender: My 30 Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

by Cindy Cohn

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17:00 – 17:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Rapid Response Tech – The Role of Tech Infrastructure in the Twin Cities Anti-ICE Resistance

by Eyes

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18:00 – 18:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Hackers: Journalism Needs Your Help

by Brandon Roberts

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19:00 – 19:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Inside North Korea’s Underground Tech Resistance: How Smugglers, Defectors, and Technologists Are Outmaneuvering the World’s Most Locked-Down Information System

by Jon Thompson

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20:00 – 20:50  in  Grand Ballroom

The New Cold War Has No Borders: Building the Sovereign Stack

by Daniel Nowak

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21:00 – 21:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Nation-State Machinery: Inside the Persona Production Line Behind the Stryker Strike

by Ashley Rose

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22:00 – 22:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Please Wiggle Responsibly - A Dance Extravaganza

by Johannes Grenzfurthner

Daychange from Day 1 to 2

11:00 – 11:50  in  Grand Ballroom

The Onion Shell: Zero-Install Tor From the Browser

by Erica Windisch

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12:00 – 13:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Ask EFF, 2026 Edition

by Daly Barnett, William Budington, Lena Cohen, Cara Gagliano, Rory Mir

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14:00 – 14:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Cybersecurity for Space Systems: Integrating Offensive Methods, Defending System Vulnerabilities, and Space Law

by Tiffany Strauchs Rad

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15:00 – 15:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Stop “Thinking Of” the Children. Start Listening to Them.

by Evan Greer

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16:00 – 16:50  in  Grand Ballroom

How to De-Google Your Org: Practical Advice From People Who’ve Done It

by Meredith Laverty, Jibran Ludwig, Sarah E. Philips

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17:00 – 18:50  in  Grand Ballroom

What’s Your Age Again? The Future of Online Age Assurance

by Cindy Cohn, Denise G. Tayloe

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19:00 – 19:50  in  Grand Ballroom

How to Be a Whistleblower

by Emma Best, John Williams, Jeremy Hammond

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20:00 – 20:50  in  Grand Ballroom

No Laptop or Wi-Fi? No Problem: Democratizing Coding for the Mobile-Only World

by David Schachter, Hal Eisen, Elissa Miller

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21:00 – 21:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Does Self-Sovereign Identity Imply Decentralized Identity?

by Wes Kussmaul

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22:00 – 23:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Hackers Got Talent

by Rob T Firefly, Gila

Daychange from Day 2 to 3

10:00 – 10:50  in  Grand Ballroom

The Ethical Fork in the Road Facing Gen Z: How Can We Inspire Gen Z to Become Ethical Hackers in Modern Workplaces?

by Will McKeen

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11:00 – 11:50  in  Grand Ballroom

The Adversary in Your Bed: Stalkerware, Domestic Violence, and the Hacker Defense

by Efrat Sternberg, Sarah E. Ross-Benjamin, Sara Kurtzberg

10 minutes pause

12:00 – 12:50  in  Grand Ballroom

BlueLeaks 2.0

by Emma Best, maia arson crimew, Mikael Thalen, Alexander J. Urbelis

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13:00 – 13:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Against the Edgelord International

by Johannes Grenzfurthner

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14:00 – 14:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Show Network Security – A Time of Major Transition

by John Huntington

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15:00 – 15:50  in  Grand Ballroom

We Need to Talk About Signal: Security Assumptions, Threat Models, and Activist Community Risk

by HelpMeRob

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16:00 – 16:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Doxing: The Politics, Panics, and Economies of Online Safety

by Jamie Theophilos

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17:00 – 17:50  in  Grand Ballroom

Decentralized Networking Is a Social Problem

by John Burwell

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18:00 – 18:50  in  Grand Ballroom

HOPE 26 Closing Ceremonies

11:00 – 11:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

I-Stars: Protocols and Power

by Mallory Knodel

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12:00 – 12:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Against Tech Oligarchy

by Clarissa Redwine

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13:00 – 13:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

An Open Forum for Legal Research

by Calliope Youngblood

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14:00 – 14:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Field Notes From a Year of OPSEC for Liberation Movements

by Daly Barnett

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15:00 – 15:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Seeing Inside the Mind of AI: Tracing Agents, Tools, and Weird Decisions

by Michael Barbine

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16:00 – 16:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Spacesuits, Mars Boots and Vegan Roots in the Desert Regolith: Field Testing the Tardigrade v.1 EMU Under Pressure in the Badlands

by Scott Beibin, Elizabeth Jane Cole

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17:00 – 17:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Nikola Tesla’s Time at the New Yorker Hotel

by Jeffrey Velez

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18:00 – 18:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Nobody Owns This: 9P CyberDecks and Community-Owned Mesh Computing

by Jon Sharp

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19:00 – 19:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

How to Fight DDoS Attacks From the Command Line

by Michael McMahon

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20:00 – 20:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

How Advertising Libraries in Mobile Apps Enable a Massive Location Surveillance Apparatus

by William Budington, Lena Cohen

10 minutes pause

21:00 – 21:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

More Computational Techniques for Making Karaoke Harder

by Jamie Brew, Jenn Schiffer

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22:00 – 22:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Joybubbles Screening

by Rachael J. Morrison

Daychange from Day 1 to 2

10:00 – 10:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Source Protection and Digital Security Techniques Under Surveillance

by Smitha Khorana

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11:00 – 11:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Speculative Solidarities: Sanctuary Cell Division – A Call to Action

by Jorge Luis, Rev. Eon, Camille Acey, Rev. Elæ Moss Benedetto

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12:00 – 12:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

To Kill the Telephone System’s Ghost

by Phillip Hallam-Baker

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13:00 – 13:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Remembering Hackers 31 Years Later

by Renoly Santiago, Emmanuel Goldstein

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14:00 – 14:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

A Practical Guide to Facial Recognition Evasion

by Prowex, Rambo Anderson-You

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15:00 – 15:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Government Transparency in a Time of Shadows

by Kel McClanahan Esq.

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16:00 – 16:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

The Art and Science of Metawar

by Winn Schwartau

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17:00 – 17:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Ham Radio Isn’t Magic: Preppers, Sad Hams, and Practical Off-Grid Communications

by Andrew "livitup" Ohnstad

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18:00 – 18:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

You Are John Connor... The Rise of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

by Peter Haas

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19:00 – 19:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Not Your Boy Genius: Feminist and Queer Hackers in Film and Pop Culture

by Jasmin Hagendorfer

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20:00 – 20:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Studying the Quotidian Web

by Ryan McGrady

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21:00 – 21:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Feeling the Signal: Hacking Music Into Touch

by Yi Wang

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22:00 – 23:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Maxx Klaxon Show

by Maxx Klaxon

Daychange from Day 2 to 3

10:00 – 10:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

No, I’d Rather Stay Manipulated: How the Apps in Our Lives Hijack Our Behavioral Programming

by Nasir Barday

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11:00 – 11:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Building Sovereign AI for Amateur Radio

by Joe Cupano

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12:00 – 12:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Organizing in Layer 8 – Building Tech in Democratic Socialists of America

by Colin Mahns

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13:00 – 13:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Nobody Meant to Build a Surveillance Machine: The Modern Corporate Panopticon

by Steven Irurueta

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14:00 – 14:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

I Hacked a Gay Foot Fetish App (And You Can, Too!)

by Altair

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15:00 – 15:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Agshittification: Big Meat, Misinformation, and the Fight for the Future of Food

by P.K. Newby

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16:00 – 16:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

Can We Route Around the App Stores?

by Mikalai Birukou, Sean O'Brien

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17:00 – 17:50  in  Crystal Ballroom

The Watchers You Fed: Feds, Extractors, Data-Brokers

by Tony Spencer

12:00 – 12:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

HERMES: Secure, Long Distance Data Communication Over HF Radio

by Peter Bloom

10 minutes pause

13:00 – 13:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Lingua Machina: The Last Humans Who Read Code

by Anna Nicanorova

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15:00 – 15:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Against Chokepoints: Optical, Audio, and Wireless Mesh as a Community Software Bus

by Matt Hargett

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16:00 – 16:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Flushing Tech: Three Years of Building Hyper-Local Tech Communities

by William Hutson

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17:00 – 17:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Huge Antennas: Death Rays to Aliens

by Steve Bossert

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18:00 – 18:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Poisoning the Well: How Decoys and Misdirection Protect Privacy When Opting Out Isn’t Enough

by Rachel Vrabec

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19:00 – 19:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption to Build Real-World Software

by Vishakh

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20:00 – 20:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Wardialing IPv4

by elixx

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21:00 – 21:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Engineering Waveflower - A Radial Oscilloscope for Visualizing Livecoding Music

by Ying Chyi Gooi

Daychange from Day 1 to 2

10:00 – 10:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Autonomous Exploitation at Scale

by Carter Pfaff

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11:00 – 11:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

The Deceptive Web of Scam Compounds

by Laura Sang Hee Scherling EdD

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12:00 – 12:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

The Server Knows Nothing: Designing Emergency Apps With Nothing to Subpoena

by Jason Long

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13:00 – 13:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Can It Ham? Hackers, Hams, and the Signal Between Them

by Terry "shoot3r" Schanno, Andrew "livitup" Ohnstad

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14:00 – 14:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Riding the Pipe: Hack Wi-Fi and Meshtastic via Browser With Cheap Microcontrollers

by Kody Kinzie

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15:00 – 15:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

The Enshittified Internet and How We Can All Rewild the Internet!

by LambdaCalculus

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16:00 – 16:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Tell Stories, Save the World: How Hackers Are Basically Shakespeare

by Kestral Gaian

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17:00 – 17:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Zines Against the Machine: Analog Communication for a Digital Dystopia

by Jack Gangi

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18:00 – 18:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Hacking the Layers, Hackers, Open Source and the 3D Printing World – And Why You Should Care About It

by Jim Griffin

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19:00 – 19:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

It’s 10 PM. Do You Know What Your AI Agents Are Doing?

by Alexander Rodriguez

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20:00 – 20:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Take This Job and Pwn It

by `Lex Pendragon

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21:00 – 21:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

What It’s Like in a Worker-Owned Creative Technology Cooperative

by Gwendolyn Pasquarello

Daychange from Day 2 to 3

10:00 – 10:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Harvest Now, Decrypt Later

by redshiftzero

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11:00 – 11:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Modern OSINT Tradecraft: Attribution, Analysis, and OPSEC

by Lex Tungkasiri

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12:00 – 12:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Non-Human Identity – The Gaping Security Hole That Agents Are Making Worse!

by Michael Morgenstern

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13:00 – 13:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Non-Stop BioDigital Attack Surfaces: Reviewing AI-Augmented Biocybersecurity and Cyberbiosecurity

by bueller, Xavier Palmer

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14:00 – 14:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Honeypotting AI Agents

by Abdel Fane

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15:00 – 15:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

LIMA – No Vendor, No Cloud, No Trust: Open Source Tamper Attestation for Critical Infrastructure Hardware

by Justin T. Knox

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16:00 – 16:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

They’re Already Knocking: High-Interaction Honeypots for the Rest of Us

by Aaron Levitt

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17:00 – 17:50  in  Gramercy Park Suite

Real-Time Ad Blocking via HDMI Man-in-the-Middle

by Cyril Engmann

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