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You are used to your mobile phone number following you around the globe. But the same functionality that makes you reachable worldwide can also be used to track your whereabouts down to city-level – without you ever knowing about it. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/2997.en.html

PLC (PowerLineCommunications) had been widely used currently for the in-home LANs and for Internet access over PowerLineCommunications based on the market standard called HomePlug. Electricity is a great medium to transport data over existing cables in-home and outdoor but gives the network an old-school flavor of the behaviour of the hub where all stations share the medium. In this lecture, we pr...

In many social situations, people start to adjust their behaviour due to surveillance. Inspired by more and more cases of breaches of data protection regulations, an erosion of trust into these regulations and those who forfeit them can be seen. The consequences of this are grim. Either we abolish surveillance technologies or the idea of "informational self-determination". about this event: http:/...

Während seiner Festungshaft (1920-1924) wurden dem Dichter und Anarchisten Erich Mühsam mehrfach die Tagebücher konfisziert, ausgewertet und (teils öffentlich) gegen ihn verwendet. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/2807.en.html

Apple's iPhone has made a tremendous impact on the smartphone market and the public consciousness, but it has also highlighted their desire to carefully control the device with draconian restrictions. These restrictions prevent users from choosing to run third-party applications unauthorized by Apple and using the devices on carriers not approved by Apple. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/co...

Organize and operate a workshop for young people. Show them how your hackerspace works. Gain their attraction in having fun with hardware, electronics, microprocessors, software or hacking. Become known to new persons. Create networks of brains for new, cool projects. Let them experience the amazing power of teamwork! about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/2827.en.htm...

Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, hat nichts zu befürchten? Die zuständigen Mitarbeiter halten sich strikt an das Gesetz? Überwachung hat für die Betroffenen keine negativen Folgen? Im Jahr 2008 sind diese Irrtümer so häufig widerlegt worden wie noch nie: Datenskandale bei LIDL, Telekom und dutzenden anderen, per Internet zugängliche Meldedaten, Massenverkauf von Bank- und Telefondaten – eine Liste ohn...

We live in interesting times to build hacker spaces: physical spaces where hackers make things, inspired by European models, pop up everywhere. Whether you need inspiration to build your own hacker space or want an update on what happened in places like New York City, Washington D.C., San Francisco, or Vienna since last year: This international panel will provide you with insight. about this event...

Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard. Although DRAMs become less reliable when they are not refreshed, they are not immediately erased, and their contents persist sufficiently for malicious (or forensic) acquisition of usable full-sy...

PIN entry devices (PED) are used in the Chip & PIN (EMV) system to process customers' card details and PINs in stores world-wide. Because of the highly sensitive information they handle, PEDs are subject to an extensive security evaluation procedure. We have demonstrated that the tamper protection of two popular PEDs can be easily circumvented with a paperclip, some basic technical skills, and off...

Es wird Zeit, dass wir mal über die Dinge sprechen, die wir seit dem Inkrafttreten des Hackerparagraphen nicht mehr machen können. Und die Dinge, bei denen wir uns nicht sicher sind, ob wir sie machen können, und daher lieber sein lassen. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/3028.en.html

Cryptographic algorithms are often kept secret in the false belief that this provides security. To find and analyze these algorithms, we reverse-engineering the silicon chips that implement them. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/2896.en.html

Robotic systems become more and more autonomous, and telepresence develops very rapidly. But what happens if things go wrong? Who is responsible for that autonomous cleaning car murdering tourists? How can you identify the owner of that spy-drone filming you naked at the pool? This talk outlines some ideas to trigger a debate on how to deal with these problems, without stifling innovation and fun....

The BIOS and it's successor EFI are considered by many to be the final frontier for open source software in commodity PCs. This talk describes the BIOS replacement coreboot (formerly LinuxBIOS) and the projects surrounding it. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/2970.en.html

The Texas Instruments MSP430 low-power microcontroller is used in many medical, industrial, and consumer devices. When its JTAG fuse is blown, the device's firmware is kept private only a serial bootstrap loader (BSL), certain revisions of which are vulnerable to a side-channel timing analysis attack. This talk continues that from Black Hat USA by describing the speaker's adventures in creating a...

In this talk I present the current state of wearable computing, computing as common and useful as clothes, focusing on activity recognition (the inference of the users current actions) using on-body sensors (accelerometers, gyroscopes and other modalities), explaining possibilities, dealing with challenges and limitations and presenting some perils. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/...

SSL wasn't enough. Encryption is nonexistent. Autoupdaters are horribly broken. Why is all this the case? about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/2906.en.html

After more than a year of mostly dealing with the terrorism investigation against my partner Andrej Holm, and the resulting total surveillance directed at him and our family, it has become more quiet lately for us. The investigation is *still* going on though. In the course of my new preoccupation 'terrorism' I keep hearing about similarly absurd cases of such investigations. All different, but al...

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat uns anläßlich der Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen das nordrhein-westfälische Verfassungsschutzgesetz ein neues Grundrecht auf Gewährleistung der Vertraulichkeit und Integrität von informationstechnischen Systemen geschenkt. Damit wurden für den Einsatz des geplanten Bundestrojaners zwar genaue Regelungen getroffen, aber was ist eigentlich mit den tausenden Festplatten,...

We demonstrate a complete break of the KeeLoq crypto-system. Thanks to Power Analysis, even non-specialists can gain access to objects secured by a KeeLoq access control system. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/3030.en.html

At the latest since 9/11, the EU took severe changes in their home affairs policy. New agreements and institutions were created to facilitate police networking (Europol, Frontex, CEPOL, new databases and their shared access). The european "cross border crime fighting" has become an EU framework. Providing that this should help to win a "war on terrorism", lots of the changes follow the US model of...

Estonia and Georgia are just two examples of where global scale cooperation is required for handling security incidents on the Internet. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/2988.en.html

Manche bezeichnen ihn als größten Logiker seit Aristoteles: Der 1906 geborene Wiener Mathematiker Kurt Gödel rührte ab 1930 mit seinen Unvollständigkeitssätzen an den Grundfesten der Mathematik. Er wies nach, daß es in jedem formalen logischen System Fragen gibt, die unentscheidbar sind. Sein Arbeitsleben verbrachte der Wissenschaftler, der wie viele Kollegen aus Europa fliehen mußte, am berühmten...

about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/3025.en.html

This talk will show you how to solar-power your laptop, PDA, cell phone, portable fridge or almost any other small device. Topics discussed include choosing the right solar panel, using (or not using) a voltage regulator, buffering the energy, some real applications as well as instructions on how to build a small and simple device to measure your power and energy savings. about this event: http://...