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Slideshow: Hackers Fight Authority in NYC

The Man keeping you down? The sixth-annual Hackers on Planet Earth conference doles out briefings on picking locks, jamming phones and beating wiretaps. There was only one arrest. Annalee Newitz reports from New York.
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3ric Johanson, Brandon Uttech and Raven Alder (left to right) speak to a packed audience about several dangerous vulnerabilities wardrivers discovered in hundreds of wireless networks (many corporate).Photo: Jacob Appelbaum

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Homemade T-shirts are for sale at the Prometheus Radio booth.

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Keynote speaker Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, poses with conference co-organizer and Project Gutenberg contributor Greg Newby. Hart said he has created more than 20,000 free, online e-books for the project since he started in 1971.

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Researchers Eric Cronen, Sandy Clark, Micah Sherr and Matt Blaze (left to right) pose with law-enforcement wiretap equipment they bought on eBay. They discovered easy ways to defeat wiretaps using simple tones.

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Ladyada, who taught HOPE attendees how to build a cell-phone jammer, shows off one of her hacked toys, the open-source x0xb0x (a clone of Roland's TB-303 synthesizer).

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