Dear Camp visitors,

As with most of the recent CCC events, there will be a CTF contest.  Past CTF competitions (C3, Sigint) have been designed to be appealing for experienced teams.  The Camp CTF will be different: The challenges will cater to beginners and hints and help may be provided during the competition.  To emphasize the educative character, participants are encouraged to present solutions to their competitors at scheduled times for extra points.  The possibility to present solutions will be open to on-site participants only.  Apart from classical exploitation challenges, we will …

As with most chaos events, c3voc and friends will cater for recording and streaming of the lectures in the two main tents. On the campsite you will be able to watch them on DVB-T channels 35, 40, 49 or listen to them on your DECT or GSM phone (numbers 8001 & 8002 and 8011 & 8012 for simultaneous interpretation). There will be programming broadcast on FM radio at 89.30 MHz and DAB at 211.648 MHz (channel 10B).

If you participate via the internet, you can enjoy our live streams using your favorite device at https://streaming.media.ccc.de. If all goes well, we will also provide ReLive …

There will be a bus-shuttle from Berlin directly to the campsite! 

Departure: Berlin Ostbahnhof (East-Station)
Arrival: Camp \o/

Getting there: 
– Wednesday, August 12th, 15:00 (3 PM) 
– Thursday, August 13th, 15:00 (3 PM)

Getting back: 
– Sunday, August 16th, 15:00 (3 PM)
– Monday, August 17th, 15:00 (3 PM)

Reservation opens today, Thursday 6th August, 12:00 (noon), please go ahead: http://bassliner.org/en/destination/ccc/

If you want to have a bus at another time, please gather enough people for that date via the wiki. As soon as there are more than 30 people interested in getting a bus at …

Zum 12. Mal bieten die Datenspuren Raum für einen Gedankenaustausch zwischen Hackern, Wissenschaftlern, Politikern und Bürgern zu Privatsphäre und Technikfolgenabschätzung.

Am 16. August endet die Einreichungsfrist für Vorträge, Workshops oder Installationen auf den Datenspuren. Das Symposium findet am 24. und 25. Oktober 2015 in den Technischen Sammlungen Dresden statt.

Der Chaos Computer Club Dresden lädt daher dazu ein, Vorschläge für technische, wissenschaftliche oder künstlerische Beiträge zu den Datenspuren 2015 u. a. für folgenden Themenfelder einzureichen:

• Cryptowars damals und heute …

Dear sports fan,

traditionally, the MRMCD provide you with wonderful conference cups for your daily coffee as well as cool gadgets and an all-day breakfast, but also with a comprehensive set of workshops, talks and (this year) competitions.

In order to plan all these things, we need your help. If you’d like to give a talk or organize a workshop, please tell us via the frab system now!

The submissions deadline is the 9th of August. We will inform all speakers whether their talk is being accepted by 11th of August and we will publish the program soon after.

If you do not have a ticket yet, you …

• Unpaid tickets ordered before July 16th are dropped now. Do not pay for those anymore!
• There will be 250 tickets made available on Friday, 2015-07-31, at 22:00 CEST sharp!
• Please pay for your precious ticket immediately after you have ordered it! Ask friends to help you out!
• Once those 250 tickets are gone, you can create a verpeiler-friends-request.
• We all need to move closer together to have enough space for everyone.

Verpeiler-friends-request? If you don’t get your ticket on Friday, you have one very last, very tiny chance: Go to the ticket system and convince us that you are one of our …

There are only a few days left and we are late but finally it is here: the Fahrplan for the Chaos Communication Camp 2015. Due to circumstances we had some lags, but finally we made it!

Please note this safety advices by going through the Fahrplan to pick your sessions:

1. There is a new track: Failosophy. Read more about it in the Call for Papers.
2. Mind the gap between 12:30 and 16:00. This is siesta-time where no lecture will be held in the lecture-tents. We decided to do so as this timeframe will be incredibly hot and we do not want to constipate you in tents while the heats is rushing over …

We’re delighted by the immense public interest in the diverse activities at Chaos Communication Camp in Mildenberg. All lectures will be remotely available via live-stream and download. This way, we include community members that are unable to attend. Of course, media representatives are welcome as well, as is the team shooting parts of a documentary on site.

Chaos Communication Camp, CC BY-NC 2.0, via flickr/mseery …

– Yes, at this very moment you cannot order any tickets.
– There are unpaid tickets reserved, that we’ll put back into sale.
– We will tell you around 24 hours before.

There is a ten day payment duration. We know you(*), so we usually take this deadline fairly easy. As a campsite has restrictions in space and infrastructure, it is not possible to have more people than space actually available. 4500 Tickets have already gone over the digital cash desk, but we haven’t received the money for all of them.

Now we apparently need to take it less easy: We clean up all our ticket-related issues, like …

You got your ticket to the Camp.  Next question: What would you like to say?

If you can share your ideas, thoughts, hacks, projects, camp or quick entertaining performance in front of a huge audience in five minutes or less, you should give a Lightning Talk!

These sessions of short presentations are a great way to catch an overview of the amazing things your fellow campgoers are doing. While most of the talks focus on software and hardware projects or overviews of self organized sessions, there’s always an occasional creative prank or simply inexplicable moment you’ll want to see in person.

If …

As previously mentioned in the last blog post related to the topic, the power is unfortunately limited and each kWh is very expensive and not really environment friendly.

Our goal is to provide a basic supply for everyone present. The basic supply means: laptop power adapter, cell phone and DECT chargers.

Our generators produce about 1.8 megawatts. The above-mentioned basic supply is about 0.9 megawatts. We have to add power consumption of infrastructure, lighting, workshop tents, lecture halls, restaurants and other stuff. So there is actually not a lot of room for unexpected loads.

The …

Liebe Sportsfreunde,

wie immer gibt es zu den MRMCD auch Veranstaltungstextilien (ausschließlich!) im Vorverkauf. Damit ihr wisst, was euch dieses Jahr erwartet, haben wir eine kleine Vorschau gebastelt:

Bedruckt werden die Textilien im Siebdruckverfahren bei 7 Siebe, …