Visiting the 30C3 and wondering what this city it is in has to offer? Try one of our tours! Our goal is to show Hamburg to the visitors of the 30C3 like no other tour guide. We selected fascinating tours showing the behind the scenes of our most fascinating technology related sites.

The first tour we have to offer is a fascinating look behind the scenes of our harbor. For more tours to come check our assembly’s webpage or follow us on twitter.

Container Terminal Tour

The harbor tour “eye to eye with giants” takes you directly onto the container terminals of the second largest harbor in Europe. …

Besides the usual digital infrastructure with Wifi, telephone etc., 30C3 will feature for the first time a pneumatic tube system, with the pretty name Seidenstrasse. The installation OCTO, built from drainage pipe and vacuum cleaners, by the artist group Telekommunisten served as inspiration – some of you might remember it from the last transmediale.

The system will cover the major part of the 30C3 building. A preliminary net plan which takes into account the various limitations of emergency fire doors and escape routes can be found here:

Two kilometres of drainage pipe have been ordered and …

If you still need a ticket for 30c3, your should order right now!

The ticket shop will not accept any new orders after December 10th, 23:59:59 CET.

We’re doing this in order to grant everybody enough time to make the payment. There will be an on-site sale too, but if you want to speed up the process at the entrance, better buy your ticket online right now. Keep in mind that we only accept cash at the venue!

If you have already paid for your ticket, but it has not been marked as paid on the website within 5 days of your payment, please contact us (be sure to provide some identifying information …

Dear fellow coffee lover,

a small group of nerds will for the first time set up an assembly on coffee at the 30C3.
At the moment the group is fairly small: If you’re dedicated to excellent coffee, please join us. We appreciate nice-looking coffee machines, geekz with their own favorite method of pouring coffee, or anything else related to coffee you have lying around.

One project in our assembly will be a bean exchange: Bring your favorite beans, sort them according to their taste, and take beans others brought home with you – obviously not without tasting them before. If you want to …

Yes, there will be internet access in the way you have come to know us for – unfiltered, high-speed, high-uptime and, for us, high-fun.

Last year the Chaos Communication Congress moved back to Hamburg, to the humongous CCH. With a building that size came a new set of puzzles and challenges in the deployment of a Wi-Fi network, a backbone inside the building of at least 10 Gbps per patchroom, and 30 Gbps of global IP transit.
This year we’re going bigger than ever. More rooms in the CCH means we have to deploy more network equipment than ever before. We will have a new Wi-Fi equipment sponsor. …

We just released the first preliminary version of the 30C3 schedule (“Fahrplan”): https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/.

We know that we are pretty late this time and understand that some of you need to make arrangements depending on the Fahrplan. We feel bad about it. Sorry!

We are very excited about the lectures confirmed so far and we are confident that the 30C3 is going to be the most awesome congress ever. You may still notice several gaps and talks that seem to be missing. These are talks that are still awaiting the final confirmation by the speaker. Other events are meant as a …

Starting today it is also possible to pay your orders via credit card. Please note that we still prefer wire transfer over credit card payments, and we’ll charge you an extra fee for paying via card. If you do not want to pay the surcharge and absolutely cannot pay via wire transfer, there’s always the possibility to pay cash on site.

In order to pay via card, log on to the ticket shop and find the “pay via credit card” link below the wire transfer instructions.

The final 30c3 schedule is going to be late, we know… however, please stay tuned, as it’s still work in progress, and we can promise the Fahrplan will be awesome!

We’d like to tell you about some of the security highlights at 30c3. There are three major groups of interest this year:

1. Cryptography
2. Hardware & Embedded Device Security
3. Software & Protocol Reverse Engineering

First, let’s start with a cryptography highlight: Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange and Daniel J. Bernstein will be presenting “This Year in Crypto”. They will cover stuff that was broken before and continues to be broken …

You have children and attend 30C3?

This year we plan to have a big area of the Congress as a Kidspace, to give children of three years of age and up the chance to age-appropriately participate in the Congress. We have enough space in two big foyers to allow for a quiet space on one hand, and a more playful area on the other. The quiet one allows for relaxing with your children and to refuel with a power-nap. The playful area invites to play around, build caves, listen to radioplays on the Audiobox and have hands-on experience in child-appropriate electronics- or tinkerworkshops. And of course …

To all those interested in participating at the Congress for the first time

You are interested in technology, computers or net politics? However, you doubt whether you would fit into the Chaos Communication Congress, since you are neither a programmer nor an experienced hacker? But yet, you would love to learn about hacking, soldering, encryption, lockpicking or robots? 

Then you are more than welcome at the Chaos Communication Congress! We are convinced that this is just the right place for you and would like to encourage you to attend 30C3. Therefore we founded the Chaos Mentors. Feel free …

An assembly is your place at 30C3, the /home of a group of people belonging together, hackers who like to work and hang out. At bcc we had such groups around projects, but last year we invented the concept of assemblies as an experiment, that worked out great!

(Picture of assembly: maltman23)

You find background on the idea of assemblies in last years blogpost on this topic. In sum it is like the villages in the camp: Bring your toys and tools, show your projects and work on them, and just have fun – and let others participate in what you’re doing! Write a nice wikipage on your assembly, give …

Symbolbild à la Bahn: Hacker auf dem Weg zum Congress

As in previous years, the German railway company …