H2K2 - Hackers On Planet Earth

Here are all the photos taken by myself (Rob T Firefly) and Grey Frequency during the H2K2 conference in July of 2002.  Enjoy the pics!

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| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | The Day After |

Day One - July 12, 2002

Here's both sides of my H2K2 admission card.  The magstripe was made to match the hotel's keycards, so if you got the front desk to program it as your key, you could get into your hotel room with your H2K2 card!  Shardy informs me that the gold bit isn't an actual smart chip.  That bar code does mean something, though.  Has anyone decoded it yet?	There was a CNBC broadcast van parked outside the con.  We got a quick photo with it, but later got some better ones.  That's myself, Fina, and Sergey. (l-r)	Here's 2600's modified Bell van, with an H2K2 banner in the billboard.
Sam Nitzberg, Cheshire Catalyst, and Mr. Ohm presenting an old spy camera at their RetroComputing panel.  Bernie S. is obscured at left.	A cool old calculator.	Cheshire and Ohm, looking tired.
Cultural historian, media scholar, and author Siva Vaidhyanathan, giving his keynote speech.	Sergey getting a running start...	...and launching himself into bed...
...face first.	A panel in Sergey and Leo's hotel room wall, which opened up into a cool access chute.	Looking up the chute.
Looking down the chute.	Leo was a security volunteer, with the appropriate orange staff shirt.	We can only think of one caption for this... "His hooker left change."
Yet another reason never to work at McDonald's.	A lame repeat of a joke I pulled two years ago during H2K.  Yes, I swiped this gag from an old Benny Hill show.	Another repeat of a photo from H2K.  I've got another straw in my ear, this time with my lovely sister Fina.
We share straws.  We're a close family.	Leo and Grey.	Fina and I.
Back to the CNBC van.  This time there was a techie in it, so we asked him permission and posed with his van some more.	Grey.	Leo.
Fina and Leo.	Fina.	The van's tag.  Why not?
The rear logo.	Our hotel room TV.	Fina looking thoughtful.
There was a room for unscheduled panels, where anyone could fill in a block of time in which they wanted to present.  I chose a block that had already passed.   HAHAHA... ahem.	Richard M. Smith hosts a panel on tracking criminals via the Internet.	Richard Smith.
I love the clocks in this hotel.  What times are it?	Me on a courtesy phone.	There was only one phone, but the sign said "phones."  What kind of crazy world is this??
They had some technical difficulties getting the super-cool hacker documentary "Owned" up and running.  So, Dr Who, Elwing, and the.silicon.dragon started a game of Pong on the screen with their laser pointers.   Maybe it was the late hour, but that was one of the funniest things I saw all con.  Unfortunately, it didn't photograph very well.	Leo, Gonzo, and Fina's throat wait for the movie to start.	Myself and Grey.
The hotel's pretty chandelier, which somehow always looks like it's about to fall on you.	Sergey and Fina.	Leo's hand, Sergey, and Gonzo.

Day 2 - July 13th, 2002

Fina and I in Lindy's Cafe', which is in the hotel's lobby.  They really suck there.   They water down the orange juice!	Grey proudly displays her credential.	I'm a big fan of the truth campaign.   So when I happened upon what appeared to be one of their vehicles, I posed with it.
I did expect better than an SUV from truth, though.	Leo and Nick, wandering around looking for food.	2600 poobah Emmanuel Goldstein introduces keynote speaker Aaron McGruder.
Aaron McGruder, the man behind The Boondocks comic strip, gives a hell of a good speech.
	Me asking a question of Mr McGruder.	Jello Biafra asking more questions of McGruder.
Myself and Grey's cellphone pose with Aaron McGruder for my Celebrities With Phones archive.   Sergey, Fina, and Leo look on behind us.  He's a good sport!	Fina, McGruder, and Grey.	Sergey looking blank.
Fina doing something female in the mirror.	The hotel's elevator security cameras have been upgraded!  Check out this photo of an older model from H2K two years ago, which I had stuck a sticker on.	Loyd Blankenship, aka The Mentor, gives a reading and discussion of his classic text, The Conscience of a Hacker.
This is the crowd which gathered to watch the cDc extravaganza on live video from the mezzanine.  As it   turned out, they didn't get the feed working at all, which was unfortunate.   Or fortunate, according to some people who did see it.	Fina in the mirror.	More tomfoolery in our room.
Sergey crashing.	Fina looking odd.	Grey posed with me while I slept.  This is the least frightening pic from the bunch.
Radio host Lazlow MCs as Renderman presents Jello Biafra with some domains he rescued for him.   More info on Render's domain stalking would come in his later panel.	Jello Biafra gave an impromptu speech.	Jello and the back of Render's head.
Jello and Render.	Jello.
	Jello put out a shoe to collect donations for his legal battles, since he's deeply in debt due to his ex-bandmates from the Dead Kennedys screwing him over.
Soon the shoe filled, and he put out the other one.	Jello played us some amazingly funny records from corporate conventions.  You haven't lived until you've heard a musical based on how much the world loves Pepsi products.	Tetesuro, looking all photo-booth-y.
A nice shot of the City, out the hotel window.	More Jello.	A nice young man whose name escapes me asked Grey and I to take his picture with Jello.   Hey Grey, please remind me of his nick!
Grey and I pose with Jello.	Gonzo, Jello, and Tetesuro.	Fina gets close to Jello.
Fina, Sergey, and damn good sport Jello Biafra.	Gonzo poses with a banner.

Day 3 - July 14th, 2002

Gonzo led a thought-provoking conspiracy panel.	Gonzo prepares his panel.	Tetesuro and Fina learning a thing or two.
Leo also spoke at Conspiracies.	Gonzo.	Leo.
Leo.	Jeff Smith adds his thoughts on conspiracies.	Jeff gets points for being the only speaker at this con to speak of low-tech, such as tube-based short-wave radio, as more important than computers.
Political analyst Mr. Sisko		Bob Brown and Sisko.
Gonzo, Sergey, and Leo.	Bob, Sisko, and Jeff.
I can't pass a place called "Coma Gallery" without posing appropriately.	Nick, who still gets called Nitephreak even though he dropped that name a couple of years ago.	A shop window dummy near the hotel had us all doing the "Yatta!" dance in the sidewalk.
Ryan Lackey, of HavenCo, co-hosts a panel on the ultimate co-location site, the principality of Sealand.	Avi Freedman, HavenCo founder, co-hosts the Sealand panel.  I wanted to ask if Stormy and Hesh were there.	Bernie S. tries to get the phone working for the social engineering panel.  This image was swiped (without asking, heh) by this Hacker Pic archive.   I'm honored!
Good ol' Cheshire Catalyst at the social engineering panel.	Emmanuel Goldstein.	Bernie S.
Bernie, Emmanuel, and Cheshire explain social engineering.	An unfortunate fellow whose name escapes me describes a lost bag.  Emmanuel remembered this guy as the beat-boxer from H2K.	Alexander J. Urbelis, who was on the SE'ing panel talking about one of my favorite stupid phone companies, Oncor (aka OCI.)
Emmanuel reads an AT&T memo they sent out to their employees warning them of the upcoming evil hacker con.	Cheshire and Urbelis.	Emmanuel tries to reach AT&T, with a phone card I loaned him.
It didn't work, though.  All circuits were busy.  Some help I am.	Cheshire Catalyst was nice enough to pose with Grey.	Wendy's shenanigans.
Grey takes a tourist-y shot of the Empire State Building.	The Empire strikes back.	Grey keeps herself at arm's length.
Grey had been getting compliments all weekend on her Invader Zim bag.  Here's her view of it.	Leo.	Grey and our camera-shy friend, Simon, who's gone from looking like ALF to looking like my cat Igor.
I'm coming up, so you better get this party started.	Renderman gives a fascinating talk on domain stalking.	Renderman and someone who I forget.
This guy again.	Some nice people from Pennsylvania Grey met.  That's Brian hiding, and ylbissop on the right.	Closing ceremonies.  Emmanuel, Autojack, Porkchop, Mr. Ohm, Netherlands con poobah Rop (founder of XS4ALL), and Cheshire.
Bernie and Emmanuel.	Porkchop, Ohm, and Cheshire.	Big group of hacker poobahs.  Greg Newby, Adam, Bernie, someone behind Emmanuel, Emmanuel, Kerry, Porkchop, Autojack (behind Porkchop,) Ohm, and Cheshire.
Autojack and Cheshire.	Newby, Rop, Bernie, security god Roadie, Emmanuel, Kerry, Porkchop, Autojack, and Cheshire.	Bernie presents the inspiration for the different levels on our H2K2 badges.
Some cool parody posters.	Autojack, an enormous 2600 hat, and Ohm.	Red Balaclava, always a pleasure.
They gave away lots of books and t-shirts and stuff to random people based on the serial numbers on our badges.  Fina approaches the table to collect a prize!	She won a cool crypto shirt!  Thanks, number 63!	Jade Ambrose of caffei.net shows off her bag.
	I volunteer for clean-up duty after the con.	Much later, I hide from the camera.
Grey.	Grey's bed, which broke a leg when she sat on it.  I do not wish to speculate about whoever had the room before her.

The Day After - July 15th, 2002

No room of mine would be complete without stray boxers tossed somewhere, I guess.   No, they don't belong to George Lucas.	Grey getting ready to leave.	This hotel room had a walk-in closet which had once been a bathroom, as evidenced by this panel which hid a mirror...
...which had a conservation sticker I'd guess dated back a few decades.	Another mystery panel I couldn't manage to get open.  It was painted shut real good.	The view out the window this room.  I didn't want to guess at the bottle's contents, but it can't be all that much more disturbing than Coke.
A nice piece of wall art.	A hotel guidebook.	As we leave the hotel, we get a shot of Penn Station...
...and some parting shots at the hotel.	See you in 2K4!	A new area being constructed within Penn Station.
Fina munching on the train back home to Long Island.	Fina and I.	Grey.

| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | The Day After |

Check out my pictures from the H2K con in 2000 here.

To everyone in front of and behind the scenes of the con, and all the cool people we met, thanks for a great conference!