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Substanzen wie MDMA, Psilocybin, LSD und Ketamin besitzen erhebliches therapeutisches Potential, und die Erforschung ihrer Wirkmechanismen erlaubt Einblicke in die Funktionsweise der menschlichen Psyche. Der trotz Illegalität relativ einfachen Verfügbarkeit steht ein Mangel an Aufklärung über Risiken, Effekte und Pharmakologie gegenüber, dem mit dieser Einführung begegnet werden soll. about this e...

The movement against SOPA in the US was the largest protest in online history, and as one of the core organizers, we learned a lot of lessons on how to build a grassroots movement for internet freedom. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5475.html

A year ago in November 2012, Nintendo released their latest home video game console: the Wii U. While most video game consoles use controllers that are very basic, the Wii U took the opposite route with a very featureful gamepad: wireless with a fairly high range, touch screen, speakers, accelerometer, video camera, and even NFC are supported by the Wii U gamepad. However, as of today, this intere...

Every successful open hardware project needs a solid organization structure at some point in time, especially when plan to produce and sell your project. In our “i3 Berlin” 3d printer project, we took some elements of the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) concept and implemented it with open source tools like Github and Blender. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events...

India is currently implementing some of the scariest surveillance schemes in the world. This lecture will shed light on India's surveillance industry, its UID scheme which aims at the collection of all biometric data and on various controversial surveillance schemes, such as the Central Monitoring System (CMS). about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5552.html

NFC technology is becoming more and more relevant in our lives. One of its major uses is in ticketing solutions. However, most of companies use bad implementations of NFC technology. By this talk we will explain a complete solution, analyzing security challenges and outlining the best practices and implementation choices. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5479.ht...

Law enforcement agencies claim they are "going dark". Encryption technologies have finally been deployed by software companies, and critically, enabled by default, such that emails are flowing over HTTPS, and disk encryption is now frequently used. Friendly telcos, who were once a one-stop-shop for surveillance can no longer meet the needs of our government. What are the FBI and other law enforcem...

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...