Hacking at Random

Hacking at Random was an outdoor <a href="/facts/Hacker_(programmer_subculture)/8ww6P79y">hacker</a> conference that took place in the <a href="/facts/Netherlands/y8xn5stT">Netherlands</a> from August 13 to August 16, 2009. It had an attendance of 2300 people.
It was situated on a large camp-site near the small town <a href="/facts/Nunspeet/3Cl2b2oE">Vierhouten</a> in the Netherlands called the Paasheuvel.
This conference was the second most recent event in a sequence that began with the <a href="/facts/Galactic_Hacker_Party/r876vtUq">Galactic Hacker Party</a> in 1989, followed by Hacking at the End of the Universe in 1993, Hacking In Progress in 1997, <a href="/facts/Hackers_At_Large/r876vtUq">Hackers At Large</a> in 2001, and <a href="/facts/What_the_Hack/UwlccG9W">What the Hack</a> in 2005, and succeeded by <a href="/facts/Observe._Hack._Make./WbXBW8Py">Observe. Hack. Make.</a> in 2013, <a href="/facts/Still_Hacking_Anyway/bclKT30p">Still Hacking Anyway</a> in 2017 and <a href="/facts/May_Contain_Hackers/fDzm35Qj">May Contain Hackers</a> in 2022. Pre-event announcement by a Hackaday contributor "Eliot" stated it was brought by the same people as What the Hack 2005.
Like the previous Dutch <a href="/facts/Computer_security_conference/Ynzt6exy">hacker cons</a> this event thrived by using its volunteers, and called everyone including the visitor sponsors a volunteer. Everyone was expected to do their part in making the event a success.
With over 170 talks and 3 large lecture halls, this edition was by far the largest in the series of quadrennial Dutch events.
The special side tents offering off-the-tracks program added to the open atmosphere which was manly driven by mixing technology, art and social aspects together. A custom camp currency (being copy-cat'ed using 3D printers), illuminated flying objects at night and lock picking contests during the day where accompanied by techno-DJs generating baselines from raw-network modulation data.

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