BlinkenArea 22C3 summary

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The BlinkenArea considers positive results of the 22C3, too. Although our ISDN card broke for the 520 pixel projects at the third day, we received 613 calls to play Pong, Tetris, Retris, Snake, XXO, Pacman and Breakout. Some used other functions like displaying the time or sending love letters. 69024 times a movie was shown from our playlists.

bug fixed in Pong and Snake

If a second player calls, the ball will sometimes disappear. This bug in Pong we already fixed before the 22C3. At the congress we had no troubles with that one anymore. Some attentive gamers discovered a new “security hole” …

Slides are a-coming

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We are still busy collecting slides of the talks from our speakers and will put them into the web-based schedule as soon as possible. If you have given a talk at 22C3 and still haven’t submitted your slides please do so now. Thanks.

22C3 is over now

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22C3 ended today and we couldn’t be happier with how everything went. This have been four days of exciting activity and creativity, discussion and communication. Thanks to everybody for coming, sharing ideas and just being great.

Please stay subscribed to this blog. We’re going to point you to final activities regarding 22C3 in the coming weeks and we continue to publish here about upcoming CCC events and related stuff.

If you are still in Berlin, meet us at CCCB at Marienstrasse 11 on Sunday if you like. You’re welcome to join.

Blinken Bluetooth

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The Blinken Bluetooth installation is running since day 2 in the Blinkenarea (Art&Beauty) and triggers blinken movies depending on Bluetooth device names and types and on Bluetooth events like l2ping and iscan.

Now the source code of the project is available from the Chaostal project page.
Happy blinking out there! :)

Proceedings

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Right now, the proceedings, a collection of 39 papers submitted to congress lectures are available as a paper book at the members counter(desk) at the Chaos Care Center (B-Ring). The Bundle contains the Proceedings, a”M.I.S.C.”-journal and a “Fahndungsplakat”. The paper version is about 30 euro. The collection is also available as a PDF

Speakers: Blackwing & Swaio

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Sebastian WernerSebastian “blackwing” Werner, is a twenty-four-year old student of chemical engineering at Erlangen University. With over 10 years of Linux and OpenSource experience, his focus moved to Inter-Networking, NetworksSecurity and especially BGP during the years. Together with other volunteers he takes care of the servers of the Erlangen Chaos Computer Club, the ftp server of his university, and helps administering the network infrastructure in his dormitory.

Stefan Wahl Stefan Wahl, a forty-year old CEO of his own company since 2001 (Netsign GmbH) is working as a consultant and trouble shooter for enterprise …

Fun with CCTV in Austria

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The guys of q/uintessenz will give information about the Austrian CCTV-Hack (see German spiegel.de) on day 4 at 15:00 in English at their booth. (On the C-Level (1st floor) between congress-radio and funk-amateurs)

For reasons of hygiene …

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… the congress center is now monitored by cams – no official, but very personal ones! You don’t believe? Take a look at the men’s room at level A.

For those of you, who have the wrong gender, like me ;), here’s a shot:
Level A

Special Thanks to Mike ;)