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On June 9, 2013, Edward Snowden revealed massive civil rights abuses by the NSA. On June 10, Snowden didn’t know where to hide. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8416.html

Yosys is a free and open source Verilog synthesis tool and more. It gained prominence last year because of its role as synthesis tool in the Project IceStorm FOSS Verilog-to-bitstream flow for iCE40 FPGAs. This presentation however dives into the Yosys-SMTBMC formal verification flow that can be used for verifying formal properties using bounded model checks and/or temporal induction. about this e...

Blockchain ist die Technologie welche moderne Kryptowährungen ermöglicht. In dem Vortrag wird die Funktionsweise von Blockchains ganz allgemein erklärt. Anhand der Bitcoin Blockchain wird ausserdem gezeigt, wie diese Funktionen in einem echten System umgesetzt werden können. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/7824.html

Refugees are dying in the Mediterranean Sea. Thousands of them. We are building fixed wing drones, autonomously searching for refugee-vessels in a radius of 50km around a base-ship. The association "Seawatch e. V." has bought two well equipped Ships to help and rescue those people. But to help them we first have to find them. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/...

Germany has a good reputation for strong data protection. It also features the only parliamentary inquiry committee investigating the Snowden revelations. But what are actual results of parliamentary, journalistic and public engagement? about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8117.html

Mit dem Erstarken der Rechtspopulisten (nicht nur in Deutschland) werden populistische Positionen immer häufiger hingenommen, obwohl es sich dabei um vermeintliche "Gewissenheiten" handelt, die bei näherer Betrachtung inakzeptabel sind. Solche Positionen beruhen nicht auf einer nachvollziehbaren Argumentation, sondern auf sprachlich-rhetorischen Tricks, die im Grunde leicht zu durchschauen sind, d...

EU copyright reform plans threaten freedom of expression: Commissioner Günther Oettinger wants to make sharing even the tiniest snippets of news content subject to costly licensing, and obligate internet platforms to monitor all user uploads. We can still stop these proposals – if you join the fight now. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8229.html

Inspired by a long history of bold reality hacks this talk considers the kinds of potentials opening up through emerging Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality technologies. In this current moment of climate crisis and structural metamorphosis how can we work with powerful immersive technologies to understand our own perceptual systems, to radically communicate and to innovate new ways of being to...

How to get USB running on an ARM microcontroller that has no built in USB hardware. We'll cover electrical requirements, pin assignments, and microcontroller considerations, then move all the way up the stack to creating a bidirectional USB HID communications layer entirely in software. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8031.html

Aus ihrem Buch „Von Kaffeeriechern, Abtrittanbietern und Fischbeinreißern – Berufe aus vergangenen Zeiten“: es geht darin um Berufe, die einfach verschwunden sind, deren Bezeichnung bereits in Bedeutungslosigkeit versunken sind. Aber was machte z. B. ein Kaffeeriecher? Er war kein Hipster-Barista, sondern ein Auswuchs der Politik von Friedrich II.: durch den Schmuggel von Kaffeebohnen sah sich Fri...

Der neue Straftatbestand der Datenhehlerei gem. § 202d StGB kriminalisiert Whistleblower und droht mit Haftstrafe bis zu drei Jahren oder Geldstrafe. Das schwächt die Zivilgesellschaft und verhindert wichtige demokratische Aufklärungsprozesse. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8181.html

The 2016 U.S. presidential election was preceded by unprecedented cyberattacks and produced a result that surprised many people in the U.S. and abroad. Was it hacked? To find out, we teamed up with scientists and lawyers from around the country—and a presidential candidate—to initiate the first presidential election recounts motivated primarily by e-voting security concerns. In this ta...

More and more businesses are moving away from monolithic servers and turning to event-driven microservices powered by cloud function providers like AWS Lambda. So, how do we hack in to a server that only exists for 60 milliseconds ? This talk will show novel attack vectors using cloud event sources, exploitabilities in common server-less patterns and frameworks, abuse of undocumented features in A...

Applied IT security is largely a science-free field. The IT-Security industry is selling a range of products with often very questionable and sometimes outright ridiculous claims. Yet it's widely accepted practice among users and companies that protection with security appliances, antivirus products and firewalls is a necessity. There are no rigorous scientific studies that try to evaluate the eff...

Secure random number generators play a crucial role in the wider security ecosystem. In the absence of a dedicated hardware True Random Number Generator (TRNG), computer systems have to resort to a software (cryptographically secure) Pseudo-Random Number Generator (CSPRNG). Since the (secure) design of a CSPRNG is an involved and complicated effort and since randomness is such a security-critical...

In this lecture I wish to reflect on the maturation of the security and hacking communities and their role in larger societal and political participation. We'll reflect on the predominant role that technology has been growing into our lives, and the responsibilities we have in nurturing it. After having spent the last years in researching, exposing, and preventing the electronic targeting of dissi...

Engaging universally available deep debug functionality of modern Intel cores, with zero software or hardware modifications required on the target side. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8069.html

The Anthropocene is widely understood to mean the current "period of Earth's history during which humans have a decisive influence on the state, dynamics and future" of this planet. For several years, scientists in the Working Group on the 'Anthropocene' (AWG) have worked (and voted!) on defining the beginning of the Anthropocene in geochemical terms. The mid-20 th century provides an ob...

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/Fa...

This talk discusses the representation of Arab males in video games and the adverse effect it has on the collective political imagination. Anonymous military-aged Arab men become increasingly the exception to the laws of human rights, and become default targets for conventional and unmanned drone attacks. This devolution is seen through the lens of the changing nature of conflict through digitaliz...

Journalists and human rights groups need to find and use verified visual evidence in order to accurately report about what’s happening in conflict zones. In the case of Syria, there are more hours of online footage online than there have been hours of conflict. about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/7909.html

Physicists are not computer scientists. But at CERN and worldwide, they need to analyze petabytes of data, efficiently. Since more than 20 years now, ROOT helps them with interactive development of analysis algorithms (in the context of the experiments' multi-gigabyte software libraries), serialization of virtually any C++ object, fast statistical and general math tools, and high quality graphics...

Jeder weiß ungefähr was ein Mikroskop ist und vielleicht hat man auch mal davon gehört das da immernoch dran geforscht wird – Stichwort Hochauflösungsmikroskopie (Nobelpreis 2014 in Chemie). Es gibt deutlich mehr Mikroskope in der professionellen Forschung als es Teleskope gibt, deutlich mehr – und da könnte man sich jetzt fragen: "Warum sehe ich so viele Bilder von Sterne, aber kaum Mikroskopiebi...

The proper relationship of technology and politics have been the subject of an evergreen debate on the floor of the Chaos Communication Congress. Rather than taking a position in this debate, we are asking how the two have been co-articulated in practice so far by CCC participants? about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8266.html

Most of us use mobile messaging every day. We use certain apps that we chose for a number of factors, like our friends using it, good press, privacy promises, or simply their feature sets. This talk aims to enable more of us to reason about the privacy and security of messaging apps. We will try to present simple analogies translating abstract security and privacy expectations into concrete featur...