The timeline of fukamis and Markus Beckedahls lecture about the Rootkit, which Sony included in its music CDs, is now available online on netzpolitik.org.

According to the German Weather Service (DWD), there is a storm warning overnight and tomorrow concerning Berlin and Brandenburg. Until tomorrow afternoon, there will be black ice, cold air and up to 20 cm (8”) snowfall – starting tonight.

Don’t forget about putting your tennis rackets at your shoes.

Lightning Talks are concept which was introduced at 21C3. You can quickly show up your project and raise attention for it.

The Lightning Talks are 5-minute talks by various people combined in a set of 10 talks in one hour. We do a set each day in Saal 4 at four o’clock. The set for tomorrow is intended to be used by ideas for Lighting Talks which spring up on the congress.

So now is your chance to register a Lighting Talk at the wiki page.

What has changed in more than 20 years on this event? You can get a little idea about that while looking at the invitation to the first congress in 1984. A hole Datenschleuder was used for this.

Please write your name or nickname on your badge. That is very helpful if you lose your badge and someone shall find it (otherwise you have to buy a new one and that’s not nice). Markers can be found at booth infodesks an the cash point. It’s also useful to stabilize the eyelet of the envelope of your badge with a bit gaffa-tape.

Apparently most journalists which attended our lectures yesterday are now back at their working places and doing their job – some good, some bad (hey, we do have way more than 36 women at the congress, and our Wireless LAN is working well, but tim already complained about that journalist ;)). Sadly, this means for this poor web server that several quite big news sites all over the world are now linking events.ccc.de, and the load on this machine is going to hurt. Our countermeasures are working really good at the moment, but it might be possible that we have to shut down part of this website, …

During the 22C3 conference, taking place in Berlin from December 27 – 30, LinuxTag Association invites all friends and supporters of Free Software to an informal get-together, looking back to events and results of 2005. Doors open at 8 o’clock p.m. at newthinking store, Tucholsky Str. 48, 10117 Berlin on Wednesday (day 2 of 22C3). Drinks and some finger food will be provided. The is no cover charge. All friends of Free software are welcome. Prior registration is not necessary.

The party venue is some 15 minutes from Alexanderplatz (where 22C3 takes place). Take the S-Bahn to Friedrichstraße …

The BlinkenArea crew is currently developing a new, open-source Jump’n’Run game “BlinkenSisters: Hunt for the Lost pixels”.

If you want to help our effort, we still need volunteers for the following jobs: Level-Design, Graphics and Sound. Please contact CAVAC in the BlinkenArea (the guy with the iBook and the yellow “Pesthoernchen”-Shirt).

Bluediving was just released today on 22C3. It is a Bluetooth pentesting suite, which implements attacks like Bluebug, BlueSnarf, BlueSnarf++, BlueSmack and features like bluetooth address spoofing and more.

Comment by the editorial office: This may explain our warning Bluetooth use at own risk!

Quite a lot of posting pop up regarding 22C3. Please help us collecting links in the Press Review section in our 22C3 Public Wiki. Thanks.

Everybody who is passionate in python hacking is invited to participate at the Python Coding Contest. The shortest python class for solving the following problem is wanted.

“Subject of the contest is to code the shortest possible python module that converts decimal numbers to the seven-segment display format.” For more details look at the job description or ask Sol. The contest will be open until Friday. The winner can select between two nice keyboards.

Although a computer scientist, Constanze Kurz is mainly active in the cultural enrichment of the 22c3: At midnight of day 1 and day 2 (so just at the moment when day 2 and day 3 begin) cultural aspects of current hacker issues are explored in lecture hall 1:

• Tonight Conz will show us how biometrics play a role in Sci Fi films (some of the material is in German, so we have announced it as a German lecture, but even with little knowledge of German, you can follow the lecture, because some of the clips are in English or from well-know films);
• Tomorrow Conz’s audio drama team (from Humboldt …