page_title: Hackers on Planet Earth
section_title: HOPE Number Nine
hierarchical_section_title: Hackers on Planet Earth / Conferences / HOPE Number Nine
caption_attribution_description: English: Vermin Supreme, The Yes Men and monochrom's Johannes Grenzfurthner at HOPE 2012, Hotel Pennsylvania,
context_page_description: The Hackers on Planet Earth conference series is a hacker convention sponsored by the security hacker magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly that until 2020 was typically held at Hotel Pennsylvania, in Manhattan, New York City. Occurring biennially in the summer, there have been twelve conferences to date with the most recent occurring 20–23 July 2018. The next conference, originally planned for St. John's University will instead be a nine-day virtual event from 25 July to 2 August, 2020. HOPE features talks, workshops, demonstrations, tours, and movie screenings.
  HOPE was significantly inspired by the quadrennial Hack-Tic events in the Netherlands which also inspired the annual Chaos Communication Congress held in Germany. Summercon was also an influential predecessor.
context_section_description: HOPE Number Nine occurred 13–15 July 2012 at Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan.
  Keynote presentations for HOPE Number Nine were given by The Yes Men (with Andy Bichelbaum as principal speaker and Vermin Supreme also participating) and NSA whistleblower William Binney. Chris Kubecka, principal speaker of a presentation about internet censorship was served a cease and desist letter in an attempt to censor the presentation by Unisys and threatened with termination for a presentation titled "The Internet is for Porn! How High Heels and Fishnet Have Driven Internet Innovation and Information Security". Unisys demanded all information regarding the presentation be removed from the internet, but the Streisand effect occurred, with the censorship attempt posted on thousands of websites instead.  A first for the conference, a ghost speaker @JK47theweapon had to deliver most of the presentation due to legal threats against Kubecka. Prior to beginning, the MC invited "any hangers on or associates of the law firm of Baker & McKenzie" to speak to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Baker & McKenzie is the law firm of Unisys Netherlands which threatened to terminate its employee by letter for giving a presentation about internet censorship.
caption: Vermin Supreme, The Yes Men and monochrom's Johannes Grenzfurthner at HOPE 2012
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