What The Hack was an outdoor

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conference held in

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between the 28th and 31st of July, 2005.

Timeline

What the Hack was an event in a sequence that began with the

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in 1989, followed by

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in 1993,

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in 1997,

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in 2001 and

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in 2009. The most recent edition was

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in 2013.

Attendance

Over 2000 hackers visited the event to participate in an exchange on several technical, social and philosophical matters of importance to the technically inclined community. Visitors from all over the world arrived at the Camp Ground including groups of such diversity as

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developers, the German

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, members of the '' 2600: The Hacker Quarterly'' hackergroup, and numerous smaller groups and organisations in addition. While planning the event, there were several issues with the local government attempting to cancel the event because of "the risk for public security". Peg dhcp from what the hack holland 2005

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Several smaller events were embedded in or inspired by this event like the Hacktrain, which was planned to travel there, as well as the local radio station, and the smaller Police village which featured specialists from their IT Department, as well as interested government parties.

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() was used during the event to allocate IP addresses. The method had been first devised and used at Hacking In Progress.

Activities

Some of the lectures and events this edition were: * Reverse engineering Microsoft .NET * Cyborgs: Practical Experimentation * Attacks on Digital Passports * Using Linux for Embedded Devices * Doing a WiFi Long-Shot * Symbian Security * Do We Run Out of Oil? * How to Lower Electricity Consumption in Your Home * The Politics of Psychedelic Research * OpenStreetMap

Media coverage

The What The Hack press page
(contains links to many articles, mostly in Dutch or German).

References

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