Editing Hackers on Planet Earth (section)

=== Beyond HOPE ===
The August 8–10, 1997 Beyond HOPE conference was held at the [[Puck Building]], in Manhattan, New York City. Attendance doubled, with 2,000 attendees. [[Bell Technology Group]] helped to support the hackers. The hacker group [[L0pht|L0pht Heavy Industries]] presented a panel discussion that covered some of their recent projects, accomplishments, emerging trends and shortcomings in technologies, and a deep dive into Windows NT password internals. A TAP reunion and a recorded live broadcast of ''[[Off the Hook (radio program)|Off the Hook]]'' took place.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.2600.com/offthehook/1997/0897.html |title=Off The Hook August 1997 |publisher=2600 |access-date=December 8, 2013}}</ref> 
A 10&nbsp;Mbit/s local network was provided to attendees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://beyond.hope.net/ |title=beyond.hope.net |publisher=Beyond.hope.net |date=August 10, 1997 |access-date=December 8, 2013}}</ref>