Assembly:CriticalDecentralisationCluster
| Website | frab.riat.at, https://decentral.community/, https://taiga.getmonero.org/project/parasew-36c3/wiki/home |
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| Contact | cdc@riat.at |
| Description | Cluster to critically discuss the future of decentralisation, privacy & anonymity, crypto and Open Hardware. Hosting a recording/community stage (own frab system) & workshops. |
| Members | Parasew |
| Projects | create project |
| Self-organized Sessions | Blockchain Interoperability: NIPoPoWs & Sidechains, Open data |
| Subassemblies | |
| Tags | openhardware, ohw, privacy, anonymity, decentralisation |
| Provides stage | yes |
| Location for self-organized sessions | yes |
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Cluster to critically discuss the future of decentralisation, privacy & anonymity, crypto and Open Hardware. Hosting a recording/community stage (own frab system) & workshops.
The "Critical Decentralisation Cluster" on 35C3 is organised by RIAT and the Monero Community. We also host other assemblies in the categories Privacy & Anonymity, Coded Cultures and Open Hardware.
- Link to the main website of the cluster: decentral.community
- decentral.community FRAB: schedule and program
- Live stream on Monero Community Workgroup Youtube
Critical Decentralisation points to disruptive events of history starting from the "Micro-Computing Revolution" in the 1970s, which spawned counter-cultures such as cryptoanarchists and cypherpunks. In the 1970s three different developments came about allowing individuals with modest computing resources to encrypt communication: the ciphers DES and RSA, as well as the Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Computers "[...] were gradually coming to be seen as tools of empowerment and autonomy rather than instruments of the state. These were the seeds of the ‘crypto dream.’” (Narayanan, 2013)
The ever-growing popularity of mobile devices, ubiquitous technology and (digital/global) real-time communication introduced challenges for technology appropriation and technology-based production cultures. The “smart devices” (tablets, smartphones, etc.) introduced an interface structure that is more intuitive, more easy to use, but also much more closed and opaque. Jonathan Zittrain criticized the dominance of smart devices, describing them as "tethered appliances" (Zittrain, 2006) - a way of tying end-users to the manufacturers. The principle of “closedness” that defines these tethered appliances refers to the hardware itself, which cannot be changed or used in another way than designed (and in some cases cannot even be repaired) as well as to new unprecedented levels of control. The consequent rise of the app-stores signals the “decline of the World Wide Web” (Anderson & Wolff, 2010) and the transformation of free culture into a commercialized ecosystem (cf. Schäfer & Tarasiewicz, 2013). In addition to the closure and commercialization of smart devices, data surveillance has become not only very easy to conduct but a pervasive strategy of social control. Although decentralisation presents itself with an impressive history of “revolutions” (the “maker revolution”, “blockchain revolution”), these developments get commodified at an accelerated pace. While Bitcoin is said to have been introduced as a critique on the banking system (“Chancellor on Brink of Second Bailout for Banks” Nakamoto, 2008) it currently appears “as cryptoanarchistic as a car” and “provides all the tools to f* you” (Smuggler at HCPP, 2018). Critical Making and Repair Culture challenge the Maker Culture as unreflective and hedonized practice (cf. Hertz, 2012; Ratto & Ree, 2012). Open Hardware scraches the surface of which degree of “Openism” (RIAT, 2017) is acceptable to critical end users and developers. Convenience always beats security. Decentralisation is a process, and has to be constantly challenged.
__PLEASE CHECK THE FINAL PROGRAM ON OUR WEBSITE, AS WE HAVE MINOR CHANGES STILL!__ https://frab.riat.at
Contents
Day 1 // December 27
| Talk | Stage | Date | Time | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to decentral.community | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 17:00 | 15 min |
| Pocket Science Lab | FOSSASIA Workshops - CDC | 27.12 | 17:00 | 40 min |
| Introduction to Monero at 36C3 | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 17:15 | 15 min |
| Introduction to RIAT | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 17:30 | 15 min |
| The history of decentral.community (the CDC) | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 17:45 | 15 min |
| Intro to the Swiss Cryptoeconomics assembly | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 18:00 | 15 min |
| Intro to Namecoin | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 18:15 | 15 min |
| Open Hardware Developed at FOSSASIA | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 18:30 | 30 min |
| Paralelni Polis | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 19:00 | 15 min |
| Introduction to Replicant | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 19:15 | 15 min |
| ImplicitCAD | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 19:30 | 15 min |
| OSHWA | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 19:45 | 15 min |
| about:freedom | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 20:00 | 10 min |
| decentral.community 36C3 - the program in detail | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 20:10 | 15 min |
| Fiat, Bitcoin, Monero: 2008-present | CDC - Stage | 27.12 | 20:30 | 60 min |
Day 2 // December 28
| Talk | Stage | Date | Time | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to day 2 | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 13:00 | 15 min |
| Funding models of FOSS | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 13:15 | 15 min |
| The sharp forks we follow | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 13:30 | 30 min |
| The Secret Truecrypt Audit from the BSI | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 14:00 | 45 min |
| Open Hardware Dialogues: Black Crystal #2 | CDC - Workshop area | 28.12 | 14:00 | 100 min |
| P2P Trading in Cryptoanarchy | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 15:00 | 30 min |
| Meet the Community - Connecting to Amazing Software and Hardware Developers in Asia and Europe | FOSSASIA Workshops - CDC | 28.12 | 15:30 | 75 min |
| An Overview of Monero’s Adaptive Blockweight Approach to Scaling | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 15:35 | 15 min |
| Nym | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 15:55 | 30 min |
| Worshop on crypto-AML | CDC - Workshop area | 28.12 | 16:15 | 30 min |
| Digital integrity of the human person | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 16:30 | 30 min |
| Intro to POAP | CDC - Workshop area | 28.12 | 16:55 | 60 min |
| cyber~Congress | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 17:05 | 15 min |
| SUSI.AI - Your Really Private Personal Assistants at Home | FOSSASIA Workshops - CDC | 28.12 | 17:15 | 90 min |
| KYC & Crypto-AML tools | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 17:30 | 15 min |
| DAppNode SDK workshop | CDC - Workshop area | 28.12 | 18:00 | 60 min |
| MandelBot:HAB - Open Source Ecotecture and Horizontalism | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 18:30 | 20 min |
| Swarm | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 19:00 | 15 min |
| The incentive is bullshit | CDC - Workshop area | 28.12 | 19:00 | 60 min |
| Adventures and Experiments Adding Namecoin to Tor Browser | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 19:25 | 30 min |
| Fair data society | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 20:00 | 15 min |
| Demo and Discussion: Namecoin in Tor Browser | CDC - Workshop area | 28.12 | 20:00 | 60 min |
| Open Data PSI | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 20:20 | 5 min |
| The state of secure messaging: the case of OTR | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 20:30 | 30 min |
| Building an (Actual) Alternative | CDC - Stage | 28.12 | 21:05 | 15 min |
Day 3 // December 29
Day 4 // December 30
| Talk | Stage | Date | Time | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to day 4 (last day) | CDC - Stage | 30.12 | 13:00 | 15 min |
| SUSI.AI Personal Assitant on Your Linux Desktop - Part 1 | FOSSASIA Workshops - CDC | 30.12 | 13:00 | 90 min |
| Monero for Scrubs | CDC - Stage | 30.12 | 13:15 | 30 min |
| Fake Decentralization | CDC - Stage | 30.12 | 13:45 | 15 min |
| Proof of Less Work | CDC - Stage | 30.12 | 14:05 | 15 min |
| Open Next - Learning from Open Hardware: DevOps and Continuous Integration for the Production of Big Machines | CDC - Stage | 30.12 | 14:30 | 30 min |
| SUSI.AI Personal Assistant on Your Linux Desktop - Part 2 | FOSSASIA Workshops - CDC | 30.12 | 15:00 | 90 min |
| Designing a communal computing interface | CDC - Stage | 30.12 | 15:15 | 15 min |
| Hackatoshi's Flying Circuit | CDC - Stage | 30.12 | 16:00 | 15 min |
| Final remarks of 36C3 and decentral.community | CDC - Stage | 30.12 | 16:20 | 25 min |
