Dear fellow hackers,

as you may have noticed, the situation at the cashier decks is very confusing. We’re trying to allow as many hackers to attend 26C3 and do so in a way that’s as fair as possible. Still we’re bound to the actual physical capacity of the bcc building and were forced to send away participants.

Some of you have had a very unsatisfying experience due to this so we’ll try to compensate – at least financially – by the following measure: Out of the 300 daily tickets for Wednesday, available on a first-come-first-serve-basis from 8 am on, we will give out a free and …

Day 2 of the Congress is in full course, tickets are completely sold out and next to the talk in the three big halls many other activities can be found in halls and workshop rooms. Several Blogs have entries about what happened so far: http://futur3.com/ with a summary of Day 1, jtb.blog with already several articles (in German) and Fruto del Caos (Spanish). Please add your blogs to the blog page so it can be part of the aggregated conference news feed!

Update: more reports are popping up in blogs. Since most people publish more than one article, I’ll just name the blogs that have the details …

As you may have already heard, the 26C3 is sold out. There are no more all-day tickets available, and we have just sold out of day tickets for today (Day 2).

Day tickets for Day 3 will go on sale tomorrow morning at 08:00.

If you do not have a ticket, check out the live streams of the talks, or attend one of the many Dragons Everywhere gatherings being held all over the world!

We have activated our feedback system. So if you have attended a lecture, please look it up in the schedule (Fahrplan) and rate it. Your feedback is most helpful in determining what you like and what you don’t. It will help our speakers and the next program planning team to come up with an even more fascinating program. Thank you very much!

Frank Rieger's keynote talk started off Europe’s biggest hacker conference today. Already before the first talk the conference is sold out and the big conference hall of Berlin’s

bcc – Berliner Congress Center was packed with people during the talk. Many watched …

Es geht los. Der 26. Chaos Communication Congress hat seine Türen geöffnet. Zunächst zwar nur, um die Wartenden in der Kassenschlange vor dem Kältetod zu retten, aber morgen um 11:30 beginnt der Kongress dann wirklich mit der Keynote von Frank Rieger “Here be Dragons“.

Aus gewöhnlich gut unterrichteten Quellen habe ich – in der …

On the third day of the Congress at 3 pm, Berlin cinema Babylon (Berlin-Mitte, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30) will air the film “Hacker”. This documentary film sheds light on the modern myth of the hacker and the very active and not at all hidden German hacker scene. Shot between December 2008 and February 2009 in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Tokyo and Frankfurt, some of the founding fathers of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) are portrayed.

Director Alexander Biedermann will be in the cinema as well as some of the protagonists of the film. An unique journey to the world of hackers exclusively for guests of …

Let’s meet before congress starts and get to know each other – and have a chat about the things to come at this year’s congress!

time
We will meet from 19h to 23:42h at the cafe/restaurant “Lichtblick”.

location
the cafe is right at the U9-Birkenstrasse station at the north-west side of the intersection of Birkenstrasse and Wilhelmshavener Strasse:
“Lichtblick”
Birkenstr 33, 10551 Berlin (Moabit)

register
there is room for max 30/40 people, so please register yourself here: http://doodle.com/svn6vbf8ieng6k9t

food
let us know about your kind of food, ie whether you are a carnivore, a vegetarian …

Laßt uns mal über Geld sprechen. Auch wenn der Congress von Beginn an ein Projekt war und ist, das zum überwältigenden Teil durch die unermüdliche Hilfe vieler Freiwilliger lebt, kommen wir an gewissen marktwirtschaftlichen Realitäten nicht vorbei. Location, Transportmittel und Veranstaltungstechnik müssen gemietet, Versicherungen abgeschlossen und Schäden repariert werden.

Das finanzielle Risiko der Congresse wird seit vielen Jahren von einer CCC-eigenen GmbH abgefedert. Es ist ihr Verdienst, daß bisher genügend Geld übrigblieb, um den jeweils nächsten Congress und natürlich die Camps …

Dragon-slayers and map makers of the digital world! We need your input and we need it now!

October 9th, 2009 (Midnight UTC) marks the deadline for your submission of talks and workshops for the 26th Chaos Communication Congress.

This year, the motto is “Here Be Dragons“.

Rush, run, don’t walk to our submission overview and hand in the talk that will change the world of hackerdom as we know it. Or at least give us something interesting to offer to our fine audience at the European Hacker Conference with thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopists from all around the world …

Am 03. und 04. Oktober 2009 findet nun schon zum 6. Mal das Symposium Datenspuren im Kulturzentrum Scheune in Dresden statt. Diese Veranstaltung bietet ein Forum für Computernutzer mit Einsteiger- bis professionellen Kenntnissen mit dem Fokus auf Datenschutz.

Das vergangene Jahr war geprägt von Einschnitten in die Privatsphäre:
In der Wirtschaft machten Lidl und die Deutsche Bahn durch Datenmissbrauch aufmerksam, der Staat unterstützt den Verkauf von Meldedaten durch Einwohnermeldeämter und verabschiedete die Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Damit nicht genug, wurde der Grundstein für Internetzensur …

“For every month of preparation time that you did not have before recording an event add three months of work afterwards”. That might be a rule of thumb. Well, we had five days after spontaneously deciding to stand in and record SIGINT 2009. Due to the short preparation and setup time audio distortions occurred. If it would only have been for the notorious 50Hz/60Hz hum. Fortunately we were able to restore anything. Unfortunately this had to be done by hand.

But now the recordings have finally materialized! While most of the lectures were held in German there is also some english material …