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Despite the vast new possibilities new medias offer to artists, musicians and composers, regulation authorities and governments are trimming creative minds in their freedom, introducing new laws, filters and limitations. On the example of "Europa: Neue Leichtigkeit" the immanence of unconditional artistic freedom in creativity is brought to the audience. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/cong...

The "European Great Firewall" was the way that European civil rights organizations has addressed the proposal to create a "single European cyberspace". Surely other lectures will describe the technicalities of the proposal. This lecture will go beyond that, describing a vulnerability that the proposal reveals in the power structures of the European and world governance, that could be exploited by...

A man-in-the-middle attack on HDCP-secured video links is demonstrated. The attack is implemented on an embedded Linux platform, with the help of a Spartan-6 FPGA, and is capable of operating real-time on HD video links. It utilizes the HDCP master key to derive the corresponding private keys of the video source and sink through observation and computation upon the exchanged public keys. The man-i...

Hier geht es um die Gretchenfrage: „Welches Tool ist das beste?“ Dabei treten zwei Teams gegeneinander an und müssen live verschiedene $RANDOM\_NERD\_TASK auf ihren eigenen Rechnern lösen. Wer dabei zeigt, dass sein Tool das schnellere, schlankere, mächtigere, längere, größere^w^w^w^wist, gewinnt. Durch das Programm führen Jan „git-zsh-keynote-firefox“ Wulfes und Benjamin „bzr-fish-latexbeamer-chr...

Hacking Mind and Body – self knowledge through numbers and mental reprogramming Since ancient times humans were trying to improve themselves. Today we have open-source computer technology that helps us. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4756.en.html

In dieser Arbeit wird gezeigt, wie unter Ausnutzung einer ungesicherten Verbindung zwischen einer sicheren Signaturerstellungseinheit und einem Anwender-PC eine qualifizierte elektronische Signatur gefälscht werden kann. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4758.en.html

Timing side channel attacks are non-intrusive attacks that are still widely ignored in day-to-day penetration testing, although they allow attackers to breach the confidentiality of sensitive information. The reason for this is, that timing attacks are still widely considered to be theoretical. In this talk, I present a toolkit for performing practical timing side channel attacks and showcase seve...

A practical discussion of how potentially revolutionary, yet ethically questionable data---such as that from facebook---is currently being handled in academia. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4712.en.html

In 2004 I started a weekly podcast on international under-reported news based on a feeling that this was something I enjoy doing and I could be good at. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4816.en.html

about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4905.en.html

It was only a couple of years ago that generating genetic information about individuals was expensive and laborious work. Modern techniques have drastically cut cost and time needed to get an insight into one's genome and have ultimately led to the formation of personal genetics companies – like 23andMe, deCODEme and others – that now offer direct-to-customer genetic testing. With a price tag of t...

about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4934.en.html

Aktuelle politische Texte (Reden, Interviews) werden auf Leerformeln, Füllsel und Übertreibungen untersucht, die den Text entlarven, selbst wenn der Autor versucht, die Hörer bzw. Leser einzulullen, bestimmte sprachliche Mittel verraten, welche eigentlichen Meinungen sich im Text verstecken. Auf diese Weise wird in den Texten sichtbar, was Wilson und Shea als „Fnord“ bezeichnen. about this event:...

Return of experience about opposing #censorship #ACTA #censilia #copywrong and promoting #openness and #netneutrality to the EU institutions. Strategic and tactical perspectives by two old and tired activists. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4755.en.html

The entire Israeli civil registry database has been leaked to the internet several times over the past decade. In this talk, we examine interesting data that can be mined and extracted from such database. Additionally, we will review the implications of such data being publicly available in light of the upcoming biometric database. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/even...

This talk, consisting of five distinct parts, is intended to show the audience how to get electricity without needing a grid connection. It will give information on * Which energy sources to use * What to power with them * What equipment to get * How to wire it up * And some wishful thinking Participants should be able to assemble their own small-scale energy-generating systems after listening. ab...

This whistlestop re-telling of world economic history squeezes 12,000 years of history into 18 slides. Its focus is the changing nature of money and the rise of the monied class in US and Europe. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4826.en.html

Over the last few years hackers have begun to take a larger interest in food, gastronomy and agriculture. For many in the community the ability to create DIY molecular gastronomy hardware and recipes is an obvious entry point. This talk extends some of these early investigations beyond the kitchen and the chemical properties of food by looking at specific cultivars, food technology organizations,...

Why is the overwhelming majority of common networked software still not secure, despite all effort to the contrary? Why is it almost certain to get exploited so long as attackers can craft its inputs? Why is it the case that no amount of effort seems to be enough to fix software that must speak certain protocols? about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4763.en.html

As proposed by Nick Farr et al at CCCamp11, we - the hacker community - are in desperate need for our own communication infrastructure. So here we are, answering the call for the Hacker Space Program with our proposal of a distributed satellite communications ground station network. An affordable way to bring satellite communications to a hackerspace near you. We're proposing a multi-step approach...

In many social situations being hearing impaired is a serious handicap, not only for elderly people. Today's hearing aids are tiny computers that do a decent job in signal processing. During the last years, the progress in this technology was significant, amongst other things by switching from analog to digital devices. Since this field becomes more and more related to computer technology, there i...

We will discuss the two different approaches Apple and Google take for the client platforms iPad and Chromebook, how they are similar and how they are not. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4676.en.html

While USB devices often use standard device classes, some do not. This talk is about reverse engineering the protocols some of these devices use, how the underlying USB protocol gives us some help, and some interesting patterns to look for. I'll also detail the thought processes that went into reverse engineering the Kinect's audio protocol. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fah...

Iran blocked Tor handshakes using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) in January 2011 and September 2011. Bluecoat tested out a Tor handshake filter in Syria in June 2011. China has been harvesting and blocking IP addresses for both public Tor relays and private Tor bridges for years. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4800.en.html

We have decided to continue our research onto PostScript realms - an old, very powerful and nicely designed programming language, where (as a coincidence or not, given it's numerous security flaws) Adobe owns most PostScript interpreters instances. This time we demonstrate that PostScript language, given it's power, elegance and Turing-completeness, can be used more than just for drawing dots, lin...