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Describing the science behind new high tech vegan foods which will replace animal agriculture. I will also discuss the potential impact to lessen the severity of climate change and give an update on the Real Vegan Cheese biohacker project. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8135.html

Early digital computers were the size of rooms. While the devices have gotten smaller, because of the increasingly networked nature of technology the room has gotten bigger--it's ceased having walls and started to cover the ocean floor and ascend into low earth orbit. While Neal Stephenson may have cornered this living-inside-a-computer narrative in 1996 with "Mother Earth, Mother Board", in the p...

The long term survival of the human species requires that we become an interplanetary species. But we must answer two big questions: where are we going, and how do we get there? We explore what scientists know (and don’t know) about humanity’s potential future homes both inside and outside the solar system, and then we’ll dive into the technological challenges of (and potential solutions for) gett...

Used in cell phone technology, bluetooth devices, and WiFi, Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) is often said to have been invented in the early 1940s by none other than Hollywood actress and sex symbol Hedy Lamarr. This talk will present the undeniably entertaining history of a well-known actress moonlighting as a military inventor as well as give an overview of the 100-year-old history of f...

Wer all unsere Daten der Gegenwart mit selbstlernenden Algorithmen auswertet, wird die nahe Zukunft grob vorhersagen können. Die Instrumente dafür sind so weit, viele seriöse Forscher arbeiten an Teilbruchstücken. Die Folgen für die Gesellschaft scheinen fatal zu sein. Orwell naht gewaltig. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/7899.html

Wie würdigen verschiedene Tech-Communities das ehrenamtliche Engagement ihrer Mitglieder? Wie lassen sich gewünschte Lernprozesse verstärken? Was sind unsere Erfahrungen bei Jugend hackt? Und was haben Badges damit zu tun? about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8280.html

Since the early successes of moon missions in the Sixtie, mankind has moved on to the earth orbit and other deep space missions. But interest in the moon as a target has intensified recently as the strategies for future missions are evolving. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8406.html

Lauri Love has never set foot in the United States, yet he is facing a potential century in jail if extradited for his alleged involvement in #OpLastResort, an Anonymous-related protest action that occurred in response to the death of Aaron Swartz. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8438.html

Die Verfügbarkeit preiswerter Maschinentechnik und Open Source CAD-Software hat den Aufwand des Herstellens eigener mechanischer Schlüssel signifikant abgesenkt, die wir noch vor zehn Jahren als „sicher“ bezeichnet haben. Klassische Zylinderschlösser sind in der Vergangenheit bereits ausführlich analysiert worden, doch wie sieht die Situation bei anspruchsvolleren mechanischen Schließsystemen aus?...

Why is it so hard to go to the Moon? The curse of Newtonian Mechanics and Tsiolkovsky's Rocket Equation force us to build huge rockets to achieve any meaningful activity on the Moon. There are two strategies to hack the laws of celestial mechanics: making fuel on the Moon and using cables to climb out of the gravity well. Here we focus on the latter, which is the Moon version of the famous space e...

LoRa is an emerging Low Power Wide Area Network, a new class of wireless technology designed to connect everything from streetlights to intelligent mousetraps. I will discuss the design and security implications of LPWANs, dive deep into the LoRa PHY, and demonstrate sniffing and injection with an open source LoRa transceiver built on commodity Software Defined Radio tools. about this event: https...

''Technologien für und wider Digitale Souveränität'' Die weltweite Vernetzung ist die tiefgreifendste Veränderung seit der industriellen Revolution. In einer Zeit der maßlose Massenüberwachung scheint die Digitale Souveränität den Einsatz privatsphärenfreundlicher Technologien als ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil von gesellschaftlichen Lösungsversuchen zwingend zu erfordern. In unserem Beitrag möch...

In the last two years, the marketing industry started to show a fast increasing interest in technologies for user cross-device tracking, proximity tracking, and their derivative monetization schemes. To meet these demands, a new ultrasound-based technology has recently emerged and is already utilized in a number of different real-world applications. Ultrasound tracking comes with a number of desir...

James Bridle is a British writer and artist living in Greece. His work explores the impact of technology on society, law, geography, politics, and culture. His Drone Shadow installations have appeared on city streets worldwide, he has mapped deportation centres with CGI, designed new kinds of citizenship based on online behaviour. and used neural networks and satellite images to predict election r...

Ever wondered what is actually happening when a speaker can't get their laptop to project? While developing the FPGA-based HDMI2USB.tv open hardware for recording conferences , we discovered just how convoluted the HDMI protocol can be. Come hear all the horrible details! about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8057.html

Artificial Intelligence provides a conceptual framework to understand mind and universe in new ways, clearing the obstacles that hindered the progress of philosophy and psychology. Let us see how AI can help us to understand how our minds create the experience of a universe. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8369.html

Input/Output is the mechanisms through which embedded systems interact and control the outside world. Particularly when employed in mission critical systems, the I/O of embedded systems has to be both reliable and secure. Embedded system’s I/O is controlled by a pin based approach. In this work, we investigate the security implications of embedded system’s pin control. In particular, we show how a...

The participation of women in computer education is low; undergraduate classrooms in Germany were only 10% female in 2000[1]. The picture at the primary school level is fuzzier, as students do not declare majors at that level, but evidence indicates the trend starts from a young age. Can we make computer education more gender-inclusive? Presenting technology in familiar, non-threatening contexts c...

How to build a pinball machine? We introduce you to all basics and explain the different options for hardware and software. As an example, we show images of our own custom pinball machine. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8012.html

France is under a state of emergency since November 2015. Several laws and a more intrusive surveillance framework, infringing rights and freedoms, have been adopted these recent years in the name of the fight against terrorism. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8072.html

Let's have a detailed look at some modern 3G/4G cellular modems and see what we can find out about their internals using undocumented debug interfaces and software or hardware based hacking techniques. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8151.html

Lightning Talks are short lectures (almost) any congress participant may give! Bring your infectious enthusiasm to an audience with a short attention span! Discuss a program, system or technique! Pitch your projects and ideas or try to rally a crew of people to your party or assembly! Whatever you bring, make it quick! about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/...

We are 4 security researchers who have collectively worked on 3 different attack techniques that all (ab)use memory deduplication in one way or another. There is a cross-vm data leak attack, a cross-vm data write attack, and an in-sandbox (MS Edge) Javascript data leak + full memory read/write attack based in MS Edge. In this talk we detail how memory deduplication works and the many different way...

Smart City is an abstract concept everyone talks about but no one knows what it actually means. No one, except Energy utilities. In this talk we will explore the vast world of Smart Energy, and see how energy providers used the "Smart City" concept to get better control over our energy consumption, all while almost completely ignoring security aspects along the way. Join me and see how Smart Energ...

radare is a libre framework and a set of tools to ease several tasks related to reverse engineering, exploiting, forensics, binary patching, .. this year, the project gets 10 year old. In the process, the design evolved and several new functionalities has appeared, defining better development rules, improving code reviews and introducing RDD and fuzzing as part of the development process. Constant...