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Delta Chat is an e-mail instant messenger that is just becoming available on all platforms. Unlike other offerings, Delta Chat is no platform and operates no own servers. Instead it uses existing SMTP/IMAP servers to send and receive messages. We'll talk about the current development status on all platforms, our new Rust-core based approach, our decentralized e2e-encryption facilities (not requiri...

In this talk I will report on Databox, the focus of a UK-based research collaboration between the University of Cambridge, the University of Nottingham, and Imperial College, with support from industrial partners including the BBC. Databox is an open-source software platform that seeks to embody the principles of Human-Data Interaction by enabling individuals to see and exercise dynamic control ov...

Software bugs and timing leaks have destroyed the security of every Chromebook ECDSA "built-in security key" before June 2019, ECDSA keys from several popular crypto libraries, the Dilithium post-quantum software, the Falcon post-quantum software, and more. Will we ever have trustworthy implementations of the cryptographic tools at the heart of our security systems? Standard testing and fuzzing ca...

In this talk we will see how chaos can be used to find very peculiar trajectories for space crafts within the Solar System. To understand this, we will also have a short look at the basics of orbital mechanics as well as three-body problems. When traveling to Mars in a space craft, you want to find a compromise between flight duration and fuel consumption. One common trajectory for achieving this...

Seit 2018 betreibt Eventphone ein neues Telefonsystem auf den chaosnahen Events. Natürlich wird neue Soft- und Hardware sofort zum Forschungsgegenstand. Schnell gab es die üblichen Fragen: Wie funktioniert das genau? Ist das alles an Features? Kann man das updaten? Kann man nicht kompatible Geräte vielleicht kompatibel machen? Was kann man noch verbessern? Ist das sicher? Natürlich haben wir Antwo...

An update on the circumstances of Mr Snowden and the Snowden Refugees will be provided at the 36C3 event and venue in December 2019. There have been many significant events and incidents during 2019. Of these significant events is the major success of Vanessa Rodel and her daughter Keana being granted refugee status by Canada and resettled in Montreal, Canada in late March 2019. Vanessa’s journey...

About hacking wheelchairs, building custom bicycles, adapters to use e-scooters as outboard motors: Empowering people with disablitities or healthcare needs through Open Hardware. Presentation on experiences and lessons learned in collecting and co-creating open personalized DIY healthcare solutions for replicability and adaptability in Makerspace worldwide. Careables are open source solutions tha...

Sexualisierte Gewalt ist Alltag in Deutschland. Leider. „Laut einer deutschlandweiten Repräsentativstudie erlebt jede 7. Frau in Deutschland im Lauf ihres Lebens strafrechtlich relevante sexualisierte Gewalt. 60% aller Frauen in Deutschland haben sexuelle Belästigung erlebt." schreibt der Bundesverbands Frauenberatungsstellen und Frauennotrufe. " Jährlich werden der Polizei 11.000 Fälle sexuellen...

Many schools in Germany choose to distribute their substitute plans via a proprietary platform. The provided client software is not very pleasurable to use and inconveniences users with its dependency on Google Play Services. That's why I develop a free client for Android called DSBDirect, which is able to display plans in a nice, filtered way. Many schools in Germany choose to distribute their su...

In this talk I will outline my journey implementing my X11 window manager `hikari` and the corresponding Wayland compositor shortly after. `hikari` is a stacking window manager/compositor with some tiling capabilities. It is still more or less work in progress and currently targets FreeBSD only but will be ported to Linux and other operating systems supporting Wayland once it has reached some degr...

Kann künstliche Intelligenz Kunst erzeugen? Können Menschen von künstlich intelligenten Systemen erzeugte Kunst verstehen? Ist Kunst ein Weg zu neuen Stufen eines kybernetischen Verstandes? Der Stand der KI-Kunst ist keine Kunst oder keine KI. Aber wir werden mit unserer menschlichen Eitelkeit konfrontiert werden, nicht die Einzigen zu sein, die schöpferisch und auch künstlerische Relevanz in Betr...

Modern grey-box fuzzers are the most effective way of finding bugs in complex code bases, and instrumentation is fundamental to their effectiveness. Existing instrumentation techniques either require source code (e.g., afl-gcc, ASan) or have a high runtime performance cost (roughly 10x slowdown for e.g., afl-qemu). We introduce Retrowrite, a binary rewriting framework that enables direct static in...

Der Diskurs um die "Digitalisierung" kann vor allem eines: Verheißen. Roboter befreien uns von mühsamer Arbeit, Effizienzsteigerungen sorgen von ganz allein für den Schutz von Umwelt und Ressourcen und Algorithmen erleichtern uns den Alltag. Dass diese Verheißungen vor allem Tech-Konzernen in die Tasche spielen und wir dank der datenraff(inier)enden Geschäftsmodelle des digitalen Kapitalismus auf...

Die GFF hat gemeinsam mit Reporter ohne Grenzen (ROG), dem European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) und netzpolitik.org Strafanzeige gegen die Geschäftsführer der Unternehmen FinFisher GmbH, FinFisher Labs GmbH und Elaman GmbH erstattet. Es liegen dringende Anhaltspunkte dafür vor, dass das Münchener Firmenkonglomerat die Spionagesoftware FinSpy ohne Genehmigung der Bundesregier...

Five years ago I spoke about my work in quantum computing, building and running a tiny two qubit processor. A few weeks ago, Google announced a potentially groundbreaking result achieved with a 53 qubit quantum processor. I will therefore review the state of experimental quantum computing and discuss the progress we made in the last 5 years. I will explain quantum supremacy, surface code architect...

Frank Dörner von Ärzte ohne Grenzen und Sebastian Jünemann von CADUS diskutieren die jüngsten Angriffe auf humanitäre Prinzipien in verschiedenen Kontexten, wie beispielsweise während der medizinischen Nothilfe in Nordost-Syrien. Eigentlich sollte es klar sein: Menschen die medizinische Hilfe benötigen sollen sie auch bekommen, Punkt. Doch in Medienkommentaren wird der humanitären Hilfsorganisatio...

A situation loads of passionate CTF players will recognize: You are bored and looking up some CTF on ctftime. You finally find one and it's hosted on some fork of CTFd running on what feels like a raspberry pi 1. Notherless, you decide to play, but the first web challenge you look at has a conveniently placed php shell in the webroot. Yay! one shared web service!. After we had the same issue with...

Compared to software, the open source approach is relatively new to most actors in the field of (mechanical) hardware. Plus Open Source Hardware faces some special issues. A yet missing definition of its "source code" is one of them (+ patent law, liability, engineers that do not know how to work with git, costly prototyping…). DIN SPEC 3105 will be/is the first official standard for Open Source H...

This talk is about modifying cheap wifi dongles to realize true unidirectional broadcast transmissions that can transport digital data like HD drone video with guaranteed latency over a range of tens of kilometers. The talk will show the necessary changes to the firmware and kernel of the wifi dongle, the forward error correction and software diversity (fuse several receivers in software) that is...

Ein lustiger Rückblick über die Aktionen des Peng Kollektivs. Cop Map zu Polizeigewalt, MaskID zum Überwachungsstaat und Gesichtserkennung, Adblocker zur Werbeindustrie, CFRO zum Finanzsystem, Deutschland geht klauen zu Lieferketten und der Aufbau der Bewegung Seebrücke zur Entkriminalisierung der Seenotrettung sind nur ein Bruchteil der Aktionen, die seit dem letzten Besuch 2015 hier noch nicht p...

Forget look-alike domains, typosquatting and homograph attacks. In this talk we will discuss ways of forging perfect email counterfeits that (as far as recipients can tell) appear to be coming from well-known domain and successfully pass all checks on their way. Prime focus of this talk will be modern anti-spoofing strategies and the ways around them. Join us as we try to figure out answers to que...

This talk will explain the basic building blocks of cryptography in a manner that will (hopefully) be understandable by everyone. The talk will not require any understanding of maths or computer science. In particular, the talk will explain encryption, what it is and what it does, what it is not and what it doesn't do, and what other tools cryptography can offer. This talk will explain the basic b...

HUMUS sapiens represents a compilation of soil explorations emerging from the networks of mikroBIOMIK, Hackteria, and Gasthaus – with the ambition to bring DIY (do-it-yourself) and DIWO(do-it-with-others) approaches as well as an open-source-based “hacker spirit” into soil ecology. Participants are invited to reflect on current scientific discourses and critical societal challenges through hands-o...

Do you want to promote Free Software in public administrations? Then the campaign framework of "Public Money? Public Code!" might be the right choice for you; no matter if you want to do it as an individual or as a group; no matter if you have a small or large time budget. More than 170 organisations, and more than 26,000 individuals demand that publicly financed software should be made publicly a...

Wie kommt man eigentlich in den Weltraum und was ist an so ein bisschen Schub so kompliziert *? Warum sehen Raumfahrtantriebe so aus wie sie sind und was wird sich mit "New Space" alles ändern? (*)insert rocket science joke here Preview 1. Wie erzeugt man Schub? - Was ist eine Raketenmotor -triebwerk? - Warum fliegen Flaschenraketen mit Wasser höher? 2. Feststoffraketen - Feuerwerk, Modellbau oder...