This year, the CCC will issue invitations to journalists and bloggers to attend the 25C3. We will send out all invitations from now on until a week before the event.

Of course, this doesn’t mean the 25C3 will be an invitation-only event: Every journalist who wants to participate is welcome, but there will be no accreditation process or special treatment except for name badges which will indicate that the participant is a member of the press.

There will be an exception for photographers and TV teams. Since we know that the event can provide interesting pictures but we don’t want dozens of …

This weekend, the content team held the first round of talk selection. Some people had even gone to the pain of traveling to Berlin to participate. Kudos to them. We met, we were holed up for 17 hours total, much Club Mate was obliterated, benign (and evil) laughter and agitated shouts were echoing through the CCCB as we argued over which talks to accept, which to reject and for which to postpone the decision.
We managed to look at each and every submission we got – there were many funny and interesting submissions, and to all of you who submitted something: we thank you all for offering to …

Just a small status update: The deadline for handing in talks is over. Over 200 proposals await the content committee, which means we can unfortunately only pick about 50% of all submissions. Thank you for your work if you handed something in, it is very much appreciated. You will hear about the status of your submission on November 7th, 2008 or very possibly earlier than that. November 7th is also the earliest date that you should expect a published schedule for 25C3. And now: Back to work!

Imagine the following to be spoken in a deep, dramatic voice, not unlike the one of Laurence Fishburne:

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You decide to NOT hand in a talk for 25C3 — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe …

Everyone loves buildings that go blinkity blink. Following the long tradition of blinking houses, Blinkenlights comes to the North American continent for the first time ever this weekend.

Designed as a birthday present to ourselves for the 20th anniversary of the CCC, Project Blinkenlights was an interactive installation by members and friends of the Chaos Computer Club.

The CCC decided to turn the famous Haus des Lehrers{.linkfilter-urlfull} building at Berlin Alexanderplatz into world’s biggest interactive computer display. That was in 2001. For …

You still have lots of time to hand in your talks for the 25th Chaos Communication Congress, as submissions are due October 5th, 2008 (Midnight UTC). Then again, you may not want to wait too long.

We currently have about 70 submissions in our queue and there is definitely room for more. Some of the proposals for talks we received are very good and will probably make it into the final program of the Congress. However, some make us scratch our heads: With nothing more than a title and a name of a speaker entered, it’s rather tricky to decide if the submission is any good.

Please take your time …

Achilles had overtaken the Tortoise, and had seated himself comfortably on her back. Their race to the Berlin Congress Center, where the 25th Chaos Communication Congress was about to take place, had come to an end.

“So you’ve gotten to the end of our race-course?” said the Tortoise. “Even though it does consist of an infinite series of distances? I thought some …

Der Chaos Computer Club Cologne e.V. veranstaltet dieses Jahr bereits zum sechsten Mal ein spannendes Projekt aus der Reihe “U23” für NachwuchshackerInnen unter 23 Jahren.

In diesem Jahr sollen die Jugendlichen ein Betriebssystem für einen Mikrocontroller entwickeln, mit dem man Leuchtdioden und Taster ansteuern kann und welches nachher mehrere nebenläufige Prozesse ermöglicht. Während der Projektabende werden die nötigen Grundlagenkenntnisse in Elektronik und Controllerprogrammierung vermittelt.

Das Projekt wird bei einem unverbindlichen Informationsabend am Montag, dem 04. August 2008 um 20 …

Spread the word! Invite exciting people! Hand in amazing talks and workshops!

It’s time to announce the Call for Participation of the 25th Chaos Communication Congress 2008 (25C3). The Chaos Communication Congress is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and taking place in Berlin, Germany. The Chaos Computer Club has always encouraged creative and unorthodox interaction with technology and society, in the good tradition of the real meaning of “hacking”. You can find the preliminary agenda and additional information on our 25C3 website at …

The MetaRheinMain ChaosDays is an annual congress, this year with a focus on journalism, society and technology, organized by c3f2m Frankfurt, CCCmz (Mainz/Wiesbaden), the campus group Chaos Darmstadt, the AK Vorrat and other regional groups in the Rhein-Main-Neckar area. The MRMCD will take place from September 5th to 7th at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

We are interested in talks and workshops that are interest to the general public, as well as talks about special topics. By this means it is assured that the talks are of general interests and also related to the scientific …

Zum 5. Mal in Folge lädt der Chaos Computer Club Dresden (C3D2) nun zum Symposium Datenspuren, welches in diesem Jahr am 7. und 8. Juni 2008 im Kulturzentrum Scheune in Dresden stattfindet. Diese Veranstaltung bietet ein Forum für emanzipierte Nutzer moderner Kommunikationstechnologie mit dem Fokus auf Datenschutz. Es geht um gesellschaftliche und technische Aspekte, um Hintergründe, Spaß, Entwicklungen, Fehlentwicklungen, Nachdenken, Forderungen, Diskussionen und bewußten Umgang mit Technik.

Das Symposium beginnt nach der Eröffnung am Samstag, den 7. Juni, um 10:00 Uhr mit einem Vortrag von …

GPN7: SYN… AKK!

In wenigen Wochen werden Hacker aus aller Welt zusammentreffen in der letzten Bastion unserer Unabhängigkeit – dem AKK. Und sie werden die größte GPN in der Geschichte der Hacker begehen. “Hacker”, ein Wort das uns heute allen von besonderer Bedeutung sein sollte. Ein Wort, das wir an unsere Kinder und Enkelkinder, (an unsere Backups und Zweitbackups) weitertragen wollen. Wir können uns nicht mehr mit kleinen Differenzen aufhalten. Wir können nicht mehr Streiten um Betriebssyteme, Editoren oder Programmiersprachen. Wir sind vereinigt durch unsere gemeinsamen Interessen und …