The ninth Hackers On Planet Earth conference will take place in New York on July 13-15, 2012. Organizers have issued a call for speakers on a wide variety of topics, including “cryptography, copyright, telecommunications, new technologies, research, experimentation, surveillance, countersurveillance, privacy, anonymity, censorship, hardware hacking, programming, democracy and law, education, social engineering, digital protests, [and] hacking society.”