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The brain can be understood as a highly specialized information processing device. Because computers basically do the same thing, it's not too absurd to try to link these two together. The result is a brain-computer-interface. This talk explains the core functionality of our brain and how to access the stored data from the outside. Software and hardware have already reached a somewhat hacker-frien...

Wir leben in einem Zeitalter des Remix. Kreativität und Kultur bauten schon immer auf bereits Bestehendem auf. Internet und digitale Technologien ermöglichen aber die kreative Nutzung existierender Werke in völlig neuen Dimensionen: Nie zuvor war es so vielen möglich, Werke auf so unterschiedliche Arten zu verändern und so einfach anderen zugänglich zu machen. In dem Maße, in dem die kreative Kopi...

Calafou – the Ecoindustrial Postcapitalist Colony – is a settlement of around three dozen people in the Catalonian countryside. Concrete pylons standing 20 meters high hold a highway passing above the wild forest valley, where hall after dilapidated hall of industrial ruins stretch along the banks of a contaminated stream nurturing a twisted yet lively ecosystem. Echoes of unseen, passing cars ble...

about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5563.html

Talk introducing NSTIC and COM 238, i.e. the current digital identity policy proposals in the USA and European discussing their similarities, differences and possible conflicts.

Making a new control system for a machine is often a slow and tedious task. Maybe you already have a 3 axis stage, and you already know how to move it around. But what if you want to add a camera and use it for position feedback? You'd have to redesign the whole hardware layer. I'll talk about some ways I've built modularity into control systems for machines so that you can quickly iterate on diff...

For the past year, I've been looking at the implementation of X.org code. both client and server. During this presentation, I'll give an overview of the good, the bad and the ugly. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5499.html

This talk will demonstrate why it is virtually impossible to secure virtual machines implementations properly. In the talk I will try to give an overview of the basics of hardware virtualization technology, the existing attack techniques against virtualization and also explain why it is such a complex problem to create a secure hypervisor. The talk will focus on the low level interfaces and how it...

A foray into the present, future and ideas of Artificial Intelligence. Are we going to build (beyond) human-level artificial intelligence one day? Very likely. When? Nobody knows, because the specs are not fully done yet. But let me give you some of those we already know, just to get you started. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5526.html

TREZOR is a hardware wallet for Bitcoin. We identified security of the end users' computer as one of the main problems that block Bitcoin mass adoption. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5545.html

Imagine getting pulled over for running a stop sign and learning for the first time – from the cop – that you are HIV-positive. People in China are required to carry electronic, swipeable ID cards that hold their political views, their HIV status, their mental health situation, and much more. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5543.html

How is it possible to participate in a social event anonymously? How can we hide from surveillance in public space? How can we communicate anonymously in real life? How can we be private in public? This talk will give an overview about existing hacks and techniques that allow to be private in public, and compare privacy technologies from the web to anonymity techniques that can be used in real lif...

The goal of white-box cryptography is to protect cryptographic keys in a public implementation of encryption algorithms, primarily in the context of Pay-TV and tamper-resistant software. I present an overview of the white-box cryptography concept along with the most common applications and proposed designs. I discuss the subtle difference between white-box cryptography, public-key cryptography, an...

Inbetriebnahme alter Flip-Dot-Anzeigemodule eines Autobahn-Parkleitsystems zu einer interaktiven Anzeige. Reverse Engineering des Protokolls und Entwicklung einer Steuerplatine auf Basis des Raspberry Pi. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5426.html

In this work we present a stealthy malware that exploits dedicated hardware on the target system and remains persistant across boot cycles. The malware is capable of gathering valuable information such as passwords. Because the infected hardware can perform arbitrary main memory accesses, the malware can modify kernel data structures and escalate privileges of processes executed on the system. The...

Die Drohnenkriege sind Ausdruck einer rasanten Entwicklung: vom „Krieg gegen den Terror“ nach 9/11 zur Kriegsführung der Zukunft. Einer Zukunft, die gelegentlich der Science Fiction der späten Achtziger zu entstammen scheint, in der Roboter die schmutzigen Kriege der Menschen kämpfen und sich schließlich gegen ihre Schöpfer erheben. Letzteres liegt noch längst nicht im Bereich des Möglichen, aber...

As Internet privacy/security professionals and amateur enthusiasts, we are often asked to give advice about best practices in this field. Sometimes this takes the form of one-on-one advice to our friends, sometimes it's training a room full of people, and sometimes you may be asked to write a blog post or a brief guide or an entire curriculum. This talk will survey the current Internet privacy gui...

For over thirty years, human rights groups in Guatemala have carefully documented the killing and disappearance of many people in the early 1980s. There are tens of thousands of records in many databases, and over 80 million paper pages of police records available in the Archives of the National Police. Most of the prosecutions of the former military and police officials who committed the atrociti...

Based on her own experiences as an Intelligence Officer for MI5 (the UK domestic security service) and a whistleblower, Annie Machon will talk about the relationships between the wars on 'terror', drugs, whistleblowers, and the internet, and suggest some ideas about what we can do. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5295.html

Im Format einer lockeren Abendshow werden wir die Highlights des Jahres präsentieren, die Meldungen zwischen den Meldungen, die subtilen Sensationen hinter den Schlagzeilen. Kommen Sie, hören Sie, sehen Sie! Lassen Sie sich mitreißen! about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5490.html

Lawful Interception is a monitoring access for law enforcement agencies, but also one of the primary data sources of many surveillance programs. (Almost?) every Internet service provider needs to provide LI functionality in its routers. However, LI exposes a larger attack surface to the one being surveilled than any router should. Could this be a mistake? about this event: http://events.ccc.de/con...

You might remember Tamagotchi virtual pets from the 1990's. These toys are still around and just as demanding as ever! At 29C3, I talked about my attempts to reverse engineer the latest Tamagotchis, and this presentation covers my progress since then. It includes methods for executing code on and dumping code from a Tamagotchi, an analysis of the Tamagotchi code dump and a demonstration of Tamagot...

All “managed FLASH” devices, such as SD, microSD, and SSD, contain an embedded controller to assist with the complex tasks necessary to create an abstraction of reliable, contiguous storage out of FLASH silicon that is fundamentally unreliable and unpredictably fragmented. This controller is an attack surface of interest. First, the ability to modify the block allocation and erasure algorithms int...

Finally, the world is aware of the threat of mass surveillance and control, but we still have a fight on our hands, and that fight is both technical and political. Global democracy is not going to protect itself. There has never been a higher demand for a politically-engaged hackerdom. Jacob Appelbaum and Julian Assange discuss what needs to be done if we are going to win. about this event: http:/...

2013 will be remembered as the year that the Internet lost its innocence for nearly everyone as light was shed on the widespread use of dragnet surveillance by the NSA and intelligence agencies globally. With the uprisings of the Arab Spring where people raided the offices of their regimes to bring evidence to light, we've seen a tremendous phenomenon: a large numbers of whistleblowers have taken...