Es ist ein Konzept politischer Analyse, aber auch zentraler Aspekt von Verschwörungstheorien: der „tiefe Staat“, der ein gewisses Eigenleben führt. Einen gleichnamigen Vortrag hielt Andreas Lehner im Jahr 0 nach Snowden, also auf dem 30C3 und zu der Zeit, als sich vermeintliche Paranoia gegenüber Staaten und Geheimdiensten als schlichte Wahrheit entpuppte.

In seinem Vortrag erklärte er, was genau es mit dem tiefen Staat auf sich hat, und zeigt anhand von Beispielen aus den Vereinigten Staaten, der Türkei und Deutschland auf, mit welchen kaum sichtbaren Strukturen dieser Staat im Staat seine Macht sichert und Verbrechen, beispielsweise von Geheimdiensten oder Militär, verschleiert werden.

Die verschiedenen Beispiele in dem Vortrag zeigen deutlich wiederkehrende Muster, die den tiefen Staat für uns sichtbar machen, und das zunehmend auch im Bereich der (digitalen) Infrastruktur. Welche das sind, wie wir den tiefen Staat Schritt für Schritt enttarnen können und warum wir das tun sollten, kann man hier ansehen:

Eine echte Bank im Programm des Chaos Communication Congress sind die Security Nightmares, präsentiert von Ron und Frank, die sich in eingespielter Manier und mit wachsendem Zynismus die Bälle zuwerfen. Exemplarisch sei heute die Ausgabe vom 30C3 herausgegriffen, die ihrerseits die Nummer 14 der ausgesprochen traditionsreichen Vortragsreihe ist.

Das Jahr des 30C3 war auch das Jahr der Snowden-Enthüllungen, und deshalb gab es noch mehr IT-Sicherheit aus der Hölle zu beklagen als in den Jahren zuvor:

Das ist natürlich erstmal ein Schock, nicht… Alles das, worüber wir gelacht haben in den Hollywoodfilmen – das ist alles echt!

Was die Herren noch nicht wissen konnten: Es sollte erst der Anfang von jahrelangen Berichten aus den Snowden-Papieren sein.

Nach der Rückschau auf die prognostizierten Schauergeschichten der letzten Jahre folgt auch beim 30C3 der Ausblick auf die Horrorszenarien, die das folgende Jahr in petto haben könnte. Dabei wurde nicht nur über die allgemein bedauerliche Lage der IT-Sicherheit im Lichte der von NSA und Co. eingekauften Sicherheitslücken lamentiert, sondern auch über die schier unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten W-LAN-fähiger Bügeleisen philosophiert und die Attraktivität von Smartmetern ausgewertet.

Die Security Nightmares (Untertitel: Damit Sie auch morgen schlecht von Ihrem Computer träumen) leben vom Dialog mit dem Publikum. Das ist zugegebenermaßen im Video zwar unterhaltsam, aber erst dann so richtig gut, wenn man selbst im Publikum sitzt und sich nur noch die Haare raufen möchte. Das kann man auch wieder beim 35C3 in Leipzig.

Einige werden mitbekommen haben, dass events.ccc.de während des 30C3 lange Zeit nicht erreichbar war. Ursprung des Problems waren tatsächlich verschiedene Umstände: Zum einen haben wir im letzten Jahr deutlich mehr Funktionen im Wiki abgebildet, zum anderen haben wir ein dringendes Update des Servers zu lang vor uns her geschoben. Besser gesagt existierte der Server schon Monate vor dem Congress, der Umzug scheiterte letztlich an einem Mangel an Zeit.

Der Umzug wurde in einer Nacht- und Nebel-Aktion auf dem Congress nachgezogen, weshalb das Wiki am letzten Tag überhaupt wieder erreichbar war. Aufgrund der eiligen Aktion müssen nun einige Aufräumarbeiten nachgezogen werden. Daher kann es, wie schon in den letzten Tagen, zwischenzeitlich immer wieder zu kurzen Phasen der nicht Erreichbarkeit kommen.

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Some of you might have noticed the downtime of events.ccc.de during 30C3. Problems where based on multiple circumstances: On the one hand, we provided a lot more effort to features within the wiki. On the other hand, we postponed the necessary serverupgrade a bit too long. We already rented a new system some month before the congress started, but did not find the time to move all pages over to it.

As the wiki broke down the pages were moved to the new server during the congress to get the wiki available on the last day. As this has been just a quick copy action, we actually did not have any time to clean the configuration of the server.  To have a working configuration on the next congress you might experience some downtimes during the next days as you might have notices during the last week.

 

Congress is over now and as always, there has been much more to see than what could be seen in four short days. If you missed some of the talks however, we can help out: Almost all talks have now been released on http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/ in various formats.

If you prefer a plain directory listing, please go to http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2013/. It has been reported that this URL also works quite fine with various media players e.g. XBMC.

Each talk is available as MPEG-4 AVC/H264 and WebM/VP8 in 720×576 resolution (anamorphic 16:19). For the talks in hall 1 we additionally have a 1920×1080 HD version. If you need smaller files e.g. if you are playing them on a mobile device: There is also a “LQ” 512×288 resolution version and audio-only files in Opus and MP3.

If a filename contains multiple language marks like de-en the video contains two audio tracks: native room audio and a translation.

• de-en means the talk was held in German and translated into english. This has been done for every German talk!
• en-de means the talk was held in english and translated into German.

For other ways of getting the files can be found at the wiki page Documentation.

The following talks have not been recorded at request of it’s speakers:

• Die Bundesrepublik – das am meisten überwachte Land in Europa
• V wie Verfassungsschutz
• Googlequiz

Additionally, there were problems with the recordings of the following talks. Sadly, we won’t be able to fix them:

• BREACH in Agda (5394): Audio track is missing for the first 8 minutes
• Opening Event (5605): No 1080p HD recording
• Do You Think That’s Funny? (5376): No 1080p HD recording

We also encourage you to help with the subtitling efforts at http://subtitles.media.ccc.de/. Look at the Subtitles project wiki page for detailed information and how-to’s. The project aims to provide a transcript (and possibly a translation) of each talk at 30c3 and helps to make the talks more accessible and barrier-free.

Why not combine watching of a talk with checking subtitles that need review? Just go to Subtitles status listing to check the current subtitle status of the respective talk.

Finally, we’d like to thank all of the angels who helped with the video recordings and everything related to it and also want to thank all those who provided us with servers, hosting and bandwidth to deliver the streams to you during the event.

–– The 30C3 Video Operation Center (VOC)

Some days before congress we asked you to create videos of your home hackerspace/community. Those videos were then shown during longer breaks on stage and sometimes also appeared in the streams. A big THANK YOU for all the people who did a great job on such a short notice to show us their world and how diverse the hackerspace movement really is.

Because the videos we’re shown randomly and without prior notification, there is a big chance, that you did not see all the awesome Videos, that have been created for project C.H.A.O.S. That’s the reason, why we want to showcase them here. For privacy reasons, we did not include a embedded video player but will only list the links.

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  Germany
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  <a href="http://youtu.be/nqBJ7OGIWM4" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/nqBJ7OGIWM4</a> <a href="http://flipdot.org/30C3/2013-12-17.mp4" rel="nofollow">http://flipdot.org/30C3/2013-12-17.mp4</a>
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  Germany
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  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGxZ69q-lzI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGxZ69q-lzI</a>
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  Arizona, USA
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  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMRXXNs1DPU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMRXXNs1DPU</a>
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  Dharamsala, India
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  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GA03z1q4EI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GA03z1q4EI</a>
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  Germany
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  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v7mFbn-8UA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v7mFbn-8UA</a>
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  Austria
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  <a href="http://vimeo.com/82688861" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/82688861</a>
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  The Netherlands
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  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsLD6v_aCU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsLD6v_aCU</a>
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  Germany
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  <a href="http://thefedsarewatching.us/30c3/99141772.mp4" rel="nofollow">http://thefedsarewatching.us/30c3/99141772.mp4</a> <a href="http://thefedsarewatching.us/30c3/104584903.mp4" rel="nofollow">http://thefedsarewatching.us/30c3/104584903.mp4</a> <a href="http://thefedsarewatching.us/30c3/29953399.mp4" rel="nofollow">http://thefedsarewatching.us/30c3/29953399.mp4</a> <a href="http://thefedsarewatching.us/30c3/91942721.mp4" rel="nofollow">http://thefedsarewatching.us/30c3/91942721.mp4</a>
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  New York, USA
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  <a href="http://youtu.be/KO6dZekeVjU" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/KO6dZekeVjU</a>
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flipdot hackerspace kassel

RaumZeitLabor Mannheim

HeatSync Labs

Infinity hackbase

Hackerspace Bamberg

IT-syndikat Innsbruck

TkkrLab Enschede

shackspace Stuttgart

NYC Resistor

We really hope, that these videos will give you some new ideas for your own community or will even lead to new hackerspaces around the world. Thanks again for participating in project C.H.A.O.S. @30c3!

Update: changed location of IT-syndikat to correct city and country, thx for the info.

TL;DR: Ask everyone who you can see in your lens for their permission before taking a picture or video! If someone asks you to delete a photo they might be in, or put away your camera, please do so!

Each congress is a huge social event, a great time many people want to remember and share with their friends. Thanks to smartphones and social media, photography in public places increases year after year.

Some of you in attendance may be very accustomed to environments where taking pictures and videos in public areas is common place. The 30C3 is not one of those places. For a variety of reasons, including privacy, many people attending the 30C3 will not want to be photographed in any way.

Therefore, before raising your camera to take a picture or record a video, we kindly remind you to explicity seek the permission of all those who may be present in your image before shooting.

If anyone objects to your photography after the fact, please be courteous and offer to delete any pictures or video on your device and refrain from taking more pictures at that moment.

This has been a tradition at the congress since before the first cameraphone! You may even see people wearing “Keine Bilder!” t-shirts and hoodies. This means “No Photos!” and we ask that you continue to respect this tradition at the 30C3 no matter what you may be accustomed to elsewhere.

Of course we love seeing pictures of the congress everywhere and we don’t want to stop you from preserving your own special memories. However, please keep the rights of your fellow attendees in mind!

There was a time when we put all user-generated community-driven crowdsourced events under the label “workshops”. We said that a workshop need not be an event with hands-on and making, it’s just something that happens at a special time and place, outside of the big halls.

For the 30c3, we’ve added 3 new REALLY BIG rooms (Hall D-F) in addition to the halls we used last year (Hall 13-14) just for your events. We also chose a more appropriate name for everything that is organized by you: “Self-organized Sessions“.

It doesn’t matter whether you want to give an introduction into your favorite programming language or want to make new friends with similar interests. All you have to do is use the wiki to create a SOS and choose a free space and time to get going. (You can check the Session-Calendar for open slots.)

Each room is equipped with a video projector and Halls D-F will have a PA. We’ve also improved the idea of the Speakers Corner and there are many Assemblies that provide sessions and space for sessions.

As you can see: Everything is ready for your session! So join the 150+ already registered sessions and create your part of the 30C3.