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WHY2025 and HOPE 16 Linkdump

August 23, 2025 — ~wheresalice

WHY2025 was the latest in a series of hacker camps in the Netherlands that have gone by multiple names. It's a young and queer crowd.

HOPE 16 was the 16th iteration of HOPE, the now-annual Hackers On Planet Earth conference. I've lost count of which iterations I've attended, but it's definitely one of my favourite conferences. The inclusion of us remote European attendees via Matrix works really well. It tends to be an older and more anarchist-leaning crowd.

So here's what we learned

  • There are good maturity models for threat detection engineering 1 2. You should probably be using these.
  • ADSB.lol makes their global ADSB tracking data available for export and ADSB.exposed lets you query ADSB data with Clickhouse queries. The latter enables such things as mapping unusually steep climbs
  • Dependency-check supports a lot more than just Java now, and together with Renovate you can get good dependency vulnerability checking without GitHub
  • We've known for a long time that a new server with a public IP gets lots of requests, but what if we say yes to them all? certainly is an offensive security toolkit for capturing large amounts of traffic in bitflip and typosquatting scenarios
  • Forensically is good for detecting image manipulation and photo forensics in general
  • It's ok to have Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory
  • Bitpart lets you run bots on Signal to support activists using Rust and CSML
  • h4ck3rs is an amazing vaporwave edit of the movie Hackers
  • ProjectBookmark is an ESP8266 based project replicating the old pirateboxes of old, a wireless access point and captive portal to provide file sharing
  • Is BGP safe yet? No, at least not on my ISP
  • But maybe I should become my own ISP
  • And use containerlab to test out the networking first
  • You should map the electrical grid in your area, using these tools
  • Here's how to make your spaces neuro-inclusive
  • The autistic space is fragile to the neurotypical gaze
  • If buying isn't owning then pirating isn't stealing. alpha60 has some data on torrent-based piracy
  • sticktock is another attempt at making Tiktoks available with no spying

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