The 33C3 content committee is proud to announce a lecture selection that ‚works for us‘. Our five hard-working 33C3 track teams have hand-picked a set of around 150 excellent lectures to be formed into the best four day, six track programme possible.

Having to select talks from an impressive lot of more than 500 submissions was a hard and sometimes frustrating task. But we have been amazed by the overwhelming interest in volunteering to present at 33C3. We’re thrilled to see that support and enthusiasm to contribute to this year’s event is as high as it ever been. Some speakers even refuse to …

It is that time of the year again – 33C3 is approaching and the Chaosmentors are getting ready to support new visitors during their first Congress experience.

For those who visit the Congress for the first time:

You always wanted to visit Chaos Communication Congress but worry about getting the best out of the experience? You are interested in computers, technology, hacking, privacy, free speech and perhaps just need pointing in the right direction?

We are the „Chaospatinnen“ (chaos mentors) and we welcome you to the Chaos Communication Congress. We encourage you to participate in 33C3 this …

Die diesjährige Jahrestagung des Forums Informatikerinnen und Informatiker für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung

FIfFKon16 steht unter dem Motto „in.visible systems“. Am Wochenende vom 25. bis 27. November wird wieder das Mathematikgebäude der TU Berlin an der Straße des 17. Juni okkupiert.

Das FIfF und seine Mitglieder widmen sich seit vielen Jahren auf kritische Weise der Rolle von Technikern und Informatikern in der Gesellschaft. Mit dabei mit Vorträgen und …

Fight for your digital rights!

Am 7. Oktober 2016 findet zum dritten Mal in Berlin die „Das ist Netzpolitik!“-Konferenz von netzpolitik.org statt. Im Maschinenhaus der Kulturbrauerei geben 32 Sprecherinnen und Sprecher ein Update über die aktuell wichtigsten netzpolitischen Debatten in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt. Abends gibt es an einem anderen Ort die Party zum zwölften Geburtstag von netzpolitik.org mit Kommentarlesung, einem Netzpolitik-Quiz …

32C3 — 32nd Chaos Communication Congress

December 27th through 30th 2015, CCH, Hamburg, Germany

The Event

The Chaos Communication Congress is the annual symposium and hacker party of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). During four days between Christmas and New Years Eve, thousands of hackers, technology freaks, artists and utopians get together in Hamburg to communicate, learn from each others, and party together. We focus on topics such as information technology, digital security, making and breaking, and we engage in creative, sceptical discourse on the interaction between technology and …

When in this years’ camp’s opening ceremony hukl noticed that the on-ground generators actually are a little embarrassing for the hacker’s scene and the camp should in fact be self-sustaining, he struck an important chord: If not even the self-proclaimed tech elite is able to power its festival without burning fossiles, the IT-revolution will never be a very green one.

And it got us thinking where most of the electricity is spent on site (we will leave out central infrastructure for now), and we guess we’re basically heating wires and transformator coils. If we can eliminate on-tent demand for …

There are finally more information on the timetables of the transit busses Gransee <-> Camp. We have published them here:

https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Location#Additional_Shuttles

To cover the travel expenses you will be asked for a donation of about three euros. It can be paid at the designated table located somewhere around the entrance. Thanks!

Attention: The busses only drive one-way!

It’s getting June, and August is coming fast. If you are not already totally into the planning of your village, we recommend to invite for planning meetings right now! We need your final numbers, ideas and plans in two weeks already!

1. Fill out and complete the village form!

Please note that we made some changes to the first version, so please re-check your entries! One important change is an unlucky wording: There is not the option of having „public“ bars or kitchen as in „you can sell things to the public“. With that question we tried to find out if you are providing space at your village …

Auch in diesem Jahr wird wieder der Bericht zur Lage der verfassungsmäßig garantierten Bürger-, Grund- sowie Menschenrechte in Deutschland vorgestellt: der

Grundrechte-Report 2015. Zum nunmehr 19. Mal haben acht Bürgerrechtsorganisationen den sog. „alternativen Verfassungsschutzbericht“ zusammengestellt, der von Constanze Kurz vorgestellt wird, am:

Freitag, 22. Mai 2015, um 11 Uhr,
in Karlsruhe, …

Dear Congress Visitors,

For the 3rd time during CCC you can take part in the CTF competition, proving you are a worthy hacker. Grab a bunch of friends and knock on our ports, smash some stacks, corrupt some heaps and get yourself some shells. Servers are expecting your exploits from Dec. 27 at 21h00 CET for 48 consecutive hours.

The CTF will be in “jeopardy style”, requiring no setup on your part and it will be open to everyone, online or on-site. Register your team at 31c3ctf.aachen.ccc.de and visit our assembly to bribe us with beer or mate. There will be a couple of easier challenges, so if …

Did you think that the thrill of sharing your ideas in front of a huge audience at a C3 was something you’d never do? Do you work on a cool project and want to get the word out? Was your talk one of the hundreds that got rejected? Did you come up with an awesome hack that you need to share? Well, you’re in luck because there will be Lightning Talks at 31C3.

Taking place at 12:45 on Days 2, 3 and 4, these fast paced sessions are perfect for pitching new software or hardware projects, exploits, creative pranks or strange ideas you need to get out to a global audience. Even if you don’t have an …

Mit Patenten verbindet man gemeinhin die Namen bedeutender Erfinder wie Thomas Alva Edison oder Alexander Bell. So ging es auch Filmemacherin Hannah Leonie Prinzler. In ihrem Dokumentarfilm The Patent Wars will sie das Patentwesen genauer erforschen und stößt auf eine bizarre Parallelwelt, in der vor allem die Gesetze des gefürchteten “Marktes” gelten.

Ausgangspunkt ist die Frage, warum Teile unserer Gene patentiert werden können. Mit ihrer Kamera macht sich Prinzler auf in die vermeintliche Papierwüste verschiedener nationaler Patentsysteme und begibt sich auf eine Reise um die halbe Welt, um …