Nobody likes bans and regulations. Some people smoke at the Congress, some don’t. Almost all people hate the smell of cold smoke everywhere after four days at the Congress. So here we are again, asking you to understand and trying to make things acceptable for dislikers of bans and regulations, like ourselves. Here’s what we wrote last year:

Quite an issue last year. Smoking situation was so bad that even heavy smokers complained about the bad air. Of course, smoking is forbidden in the art&beauty-area, the lecture halls and in the Hackcenter, as it was last year.

But for the rings …

Blog TV in Japan shows an Interview with German mobile entrepreneur Jan Michael Hess. After some minutes of talking about mobile economy, they mention an event that captures the interest of the Japanese hosts: A hacker conference in Europe. They even learn something important: “Hackers are good people”. Watch it yourself (the interview is partly in English):

Blog TV has a page (in Japanese) that offers additional information. A nice piece that shows people are actually interested in the stuff we do in corners of the world where you wouldn’t expect it. Domo arigato!

Of course, the title of this blog posting is wrong.

This is the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress. For some of you, this number might ring a bell, in a Pavlovian sense that is. Apart from the fact that a 1998 film telling a story somehow connected to the CCC and the Cold War era hacker scene had the very title 23, this number is also related to Discordianism, a modern, chaos-based religion founded in either 1958 or 1959. It has been described as both an elaborate joke disguised as a religion, and as a religion disguised as an elaborate joke. Some of its followers make the claim that it is “a …

We all need to have people after whom we can model our lives. We are not sure everybody knows Rop Gonggrijp but if you don’t you should. He is the one who will take a look at some cold, hard facts on voting computers on day 1 at 8:30 PM.

Amsterdam just dismissed electronic voting computers for the elections. Rop will talk about his fight against this computers and for (not only) Dutch voters to verify their votes. You will learn why there are many reasons to not placing the whole system of hand counts in jeopardy: simplicity, transparency, and plenty of witnesses who can understand the voting …

As we told you at the Congress Website:

We encourage you to come up with good ideas, interesting projects and general feedback at any time.

But to do interesting projects you need space and time to discuss, to present some ideas and to work in a smaller group of people on a hands-on basis. The place to do that is the workshop room, where some tables and 23 chairs, a video projector and up to two hours time give you the opportunity to be part of the congress program.

There already are some very cool workshops:

• Fabienne will build a Wifi Backpack/Messenger Bag Strap with you. Please register! …

The Fahrplan is out. Have a look.

The conference will present about 120 lectures ranging from an report about the RFID Hacking efforts of the CCC in the last year, to a discussion of State Authorities Access to Sensible Information, to an overview about Culture Jamming & Discordianism. Voting Computer will be a topic too, of course.

If you miss something in the schedule or just want to tell something, you have still the opportunity to do so. Present and discuss your own topics in the Workshop Room or give a Lightning Talk. Just reserve some time in the Wiki.

Wir brauchen auch dieses Jahr wieder zahlreiche Engel. Wenn Du Lust hast, Engel zu werden, dann lies Dir die Seite über Chaos-Engel im Wiki durch und melde Dich im Engelsystem an.

Good news everyone. The official 23C3 schedule is mostly done. It will be released with the week. Stay tuned.

We have had our share of problems getting out to you and the 23C3 website is in need of an significant update. But we are working on it.

23C3 is on track and welcomes everybody at the end of the year. We try to make it enjoyable and interesting as you expect it to be. The content is mostly fixed and we will try to get the schedule done as soon as possible. We might release a preview list of lectures before putting out the fully timed schedule.

Give us some pressure by putting up questions for the stuff you miss the most so that we can make sure we provide everything you need to know now. Feel …

As stated in the Call for Participation we await your lecture proposals for the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress until September 15th. That is today. So don’t hold back any longer.

If you have any questions about giving a talk at the 23C3, about our submission system or anything else related to the conference program please contact us via 23c3-content at cccv dot de.

Die metarheinmain chaosdays sind ein mehr oder weniger regelmäßiges Treffen einiger Chaostreffs des Rhein-Main Gebietes. Sie stehen natürlich auch anderen Chaoten und Interessierten offen.

Die metarheinmain chaosdays sind eine Veranstaltung für Interessierte im Bereich IT und insbesondere im Bereich IT-Sicherheit, die Wissenstransfer und interessante Bekanntschaften ermöglichen sollen. Die mrmcd101b – die fünften metarheinmain chaosdays (in binärer Schreibweise 101b) – sind eine Veranstaltung der Hochschulgruppe Chaos …

Die dritte ICMP hat heute in Münchsteinach begonnen. Der Fahrplan des familiären Camps des Erlanger CCC zeigt, dass das Programm der ICMP eher freizeitorientiert ist. Es gibt allerdings durchaus interessante Workshops rund um das Motto: “ICMP 3 – Die Freiheit nehm ich mir!”. Außerdem steht eine Brauereibesichtigung an und die Teilnehmer können sehen, wie Club-Mate entsteht und abgefüllt wird. Im Preis ist ein “ewiges Frühstück“ enthalten, aber es wird auch gegrillt. Zudem gab es heute leckeren vegetarischen Dal. Ein Access Point liefert dem ganzen Platz ausreichend WLAN und das Phone Operation …