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The next revolution in data processing is Quantum computing. This talk is an entertaining “tour de force” starting with a brief introduction to the fascinating yet strange theories of quantum physics, the concepts of using these in quantum computing and the latest results on qubits in devices made out of real diamonds. If you want to learn about the machines that decrypt your passwords in the comi...

Re-using works licensed under Creative Commons seems pretty simple, but it can often be quite time consuming. One image might be okay, but keeping track of the license and attribution of a thousand images in your mashup, or when quoting from massively crowdsourced data sets such as Wikipedia? Whoah! Don’t we have computers to do that for us!? We do – but there’s no widespread support for including...

Computers have become ubiquitous and essential, but they remain massively error-prone and insecure - as if we were back in the early days of the industrial revolution, with steam engines exploding left, right, and centre. Why is this, and can we do better? Is it science, engineering, craft, or bodgery? I'll talk about attempts to mix better engineering methods from a cocktail of empiricism and log...

Capturing the splash of a water balloon, the snap of a mouse trap or the impact of a bullet results in exciting pictures. Best of all, it doesn't require expensive equipment. This talk covers the theory of high speed photography, the required hardware, microcontroller hacking and setting up an improvised studio in the shower. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/594...

In the parliamentary elections of September 2013, more than 250 000 Norwegians in selected municipalities were able to vote from home. They were taking part in a national trial of Internet voting, building on an advanced cryptographic protocol. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6213.html

This speech about how the hacker scene is failing its own ideals and what questions must be addressed to make a real difference. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6205.html

Extending the common 3-space-to-2-space projections to 4D and higher and how certain types of fractals can be presented using these expansions. After that we'll have a closer look at Fractal Flames as used in Electric Sheep. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6072.html

"Vertrauen ist gut - Kontrolle ist besser." Dieses Idiom gilt mehr denn je, sofern man die Aktivitäten von Geheimdiensten bewerten mag. Wie seit einiger Zeit bekannt ist, ist die Mär der massenhaften Überwachung des Einzelnen Realität. Ob und inwieweit dies Auswirkungen auf die Realität des Einzelnen hat, steht im Fokus der vorliegenden Studie. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/...

How do garage gate remotes work? It turns out the ones from MegaCode simply send a individual fixed code. And with little efforts if was possibly to clone them, send arbitrary codes, and record them all. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6462.html

The Machine To Be Another is an open-source interactive system designed to explore the relationship between identity and empathy through interdisciplinary performance-experiments drawing from neuroscience, VR, storytelling and art. Through research collaborations we have been developing applications in contexts of conflict resolution, the arts and healthcare. about this event: http://events.ccc.de...

This talk will show a new method for password cracking called UNHash. UNHash as a tool uses rulefiles that are something in between of a DSL (Domain specific language) and a python script to describe the password cracking process. This talk will show how to mix web service abuse, knowledge of human nature and data mining to enable far better attacks against passwords. We will be focusing on a few...

tl;dr EXPLOIT ALL THE PERL. We chained several of Perl’s ridiculous syntax quirks in order to create a surprisingly powerful attack, bringing down some of the most popular Perl-based projects in the world to their knees. Brace yourselves, RCE exploits are coming. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6243.html

Have you ever wondered who is watching while you are reading your favourite media online? Whether we are reading the Guardian, the New York Times, the Hindu or any other news website, third party trackers are collecting data about our online behaviour. This lecture will present Tactical Tech's new project, Trackography, which shows that we are all part of a global tracking business. about this eve...

Transcribing a talk comes relatively easy to fast typists, whereas turning a transcript into time-aligned subtitles for a video requires a much larger human effort. In contrast, speech recognition performance (especially for open-source-based solutions), is still poor on open-domain topics, but speech technology is able to align a given text to the corresponding speech with high accuracy. Let's jo...

Das c-atre collectivdrama präsentiert THE TIME IS RIGHT, ein Science-Fiction-Theaterstück nach einer Idee von yetzt. „Es geht um das große Ganze! Die Bewahrung von freiem Wissen, freier Kultur – ohne Copyright-Mafiosi, die jeden Pups, der dir entfleucht, lizenzieren wollen!“ (Jo) Als die Aktivisten Mo und Jo bei einer ihrer geheim-gefährlichen Widerstandsaktionen gegen die drohende Allmacht der Ve...

The talk gives an overview about the emerging field of smart glasses and how they can be used to augment our mind (e.g. how to improve our brain with technology). The talk will focus mostly on how to quantify cognitive tasks in real world environments. I also present a first application scenarios on how to use smart eyewear (e.g. google glass or JINS MEME) for short term memory augmentation and co...

June 5, 2014 marked one year since leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden began to be introduced to a worldwide public. On this date, transmediale teamed up with N.K. Projekt and Leslie Dunton-Downer, 2014 fellow at The American Academy in Berlin, for the Magical Secrecy Tour, a bus journey exploring Berlin as the global capital of informed response to mass surveillance. This inside look at the...

This talk will reflect on teaching Computer Science in Pyongyang over the last two years, and look at how technology has been integrated into civilian life in the DPRK. Remaining an extremely isolated country, many people would be surprised to hear that cellphones have become commonplace within the capitol, let alone that the country invests in custom hardware and software. I'll talk through the c...

During World War I, homing pigeons were used to carry messages and take photographs over enemy territory. Today, experiments are being conducted to remote-control insects for similar purposes. This talk intends to give an overview of 100 years of living drones, speculate on future developments in the field, and question the ethical implications of the practice. about this event: http://events.ccc....

What do the arts and literature have to contribute to urgent debates about the technization of food production? What can a play from 1605 tell us about fairer distribution of natural resources today? Equally, how might a cyber thriller from 2011 help us debate contentious issues such as gene-based technologies and utopian visions of knowledge-led society? This talk considers agri-tech and food sec...

Axoloti is an integrated platform for digital audio: its graphical editor is an easy-to-use toolbox for creating sound synthesis or processing algorithms. The audio processing runs on a microcontroller board, and runs standalone after editing. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6402.html

Die interessantesten IFG-Geschichten des Jahres mit Anfragen und Ablehnungen, Klagen und Kampagnen. Außerdem: wie wir mit Hilfe des Journalismus der Informationsfreiheit neuen Antrieb geben werden! about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6366.html

Eine Mietwohnung ist seit circa 20 Jahren verlassen, ihr Bewohner nicht auffindbar. Unveränderte Möblierung, Ausstattung und persönliche Hinterlassenschaften sind jedoch noch vorhanden und unberührt. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6124.html

3 theater projects that illustrate the false "California Ideology" and ask us to look at our slip into neoliberalism through the backdoor of technology and to consider the ethics in the protocol. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6547.html

In this presentation we demonstrate Thunderstrike, a vulnerability that allows the installation of persistent firmware modifications into the EFI boot ROM of Apple's popular MacBooks. The bootkit can be easily installed by an evil-maid via the externally accessible Thunderbolt ports and can survive reinstallation of OSX as well as hard drive replacements. Once installed, it can prevent software at...