We found a date and we found a place:

10|11|12|13|14th August 2011
at Finowfurt (near Berlin), Germany

Since 1999 the Chaos Communication Camp has taken place every four years ? and we will keep this rhythm. It is an international, five-day open-air event for hackers and associated life-forms. The venue is the same as in 2007, so some of you might know it already.

If you don’t have a clue about the Chaos Communication Camp, you might probably want to watch these videos:

• Camp 2003 documentation
• Camp 2007 documentation

Some history of the Camp is also available:

• Chaos Communication Camp 1999
• Chaos Communication Camp 2003
• Chaos Communication Camp 2007

More information will show up in the next months, but presumably not before 27C3 in December.

Be a part of the Chaos Communication Camp 2011! Only 365 days left!

Die 10. Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe aka GPN10 ist vorbei. Ein reichhaltiges Vortragsprogramm rund um das Programmieren ? und darüber hinaus ? hat über 200 Hackerinnen und Hacker 3 Tage lang beschäftigt. Dazu gab’s noch Workshops: Ein Piezo-USB-Drumkit konnte gelötet und programmiert werden, während an anderer Stelle im Tetriscenter Bioplastik gekocht und verarbeitet und noch woanders die Statik von Spaghetti erforscht wurde.

Selbst die Veranstaltungstechniker hatten ihren Spaß: Soviel Lichttechnik wie möglich wurde aufgebaut und die gesamte GPN als einziger Art+Beauty-Bereich ausgestaltet. Wer’s nicht glauben mag, möge nur einen Blick auf die Bilder werfen.

Bewährt hat sich erneut das Low-Budget-Konzept der GPN: Niemand musste Eintritt zahlen, aber über 200 Menschen beteiligten sich freiwillig an den Unkosten. Das lag vermutlich daran, dass Tschunk und Party so günstig waren!

Dank gilt all den Trollen, der Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe und insbesondere den Leuten des dortigen AStA, dafür dass sie dieses Event zusammen mit dem Entropia möglich gemacht haben!

Mitschnitte

Wir freuen uns, dass wir dieses Jahr Mitschnitte der meisten Vorträge anbieten können. Hier einige willkürlich ausgewählte Highlights:

• Modding in Game-Engines
  Über die Entwicklung aktueller Game-Engines und deren Modding-Möglichkeiten.
• Introduction to Democoding
  Ein Demo-Grundgerüst: ein paar bunte Effekte basteln.
• Selbstversuch Selbstauskunft
  In Deutschland besteht ein im Bundesdatenschutzgesetz festgelegtes Recht auf Selbstauskunft.
• Chips abrubbeln
  Reverse Engineering von Microchips.
• … mehr Vorträge gibt es hier.

Feedback

Nach wie vor freuen wir uns über Feedback oder Anregungen zu dieser oder der nächsten Gulaschprogrammiernacht.

We come in peace

We come in peace, said the conquerers of the New World.
We come in peace, says the government, when it comes to colonise, regulate, and militarise the new digital world.
We come in peace, say the nation-state sized companies that have set out to monetise the net and chain the users to their shiny new devices.
We come in peace, we say as hackers, geeks and nerds, when we set out towards the real world and try to change it, because it has intruded into our natural habitat, the cyberspace. Let us explore each other’s truly peaceful intentions at this year’s Chaos Communication Congress 27C3 to be held from Monday December 27 to Thursday December 30, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.

We invite you to send us proposals for talks, lectures and workshops on all topics of relevance; the following areas are of particular interest this year:

Reactive:

• DPI (deep packet inspection) circumvention
• using their technology against them
• counter-forensics
• device neutrality ? who owns, controls and queries the phone in your pocket? How can we regain control?
• new classes of security problems and exploits (or old classes used in new and exceptionally exciting ways)
• self-inflicted surveillance
• manufacturing plausible deniability

Proactive:

• putting technological developments into a historical and political perspective
• beyond Tor: next generation anonymity systems
• open and distributed data mining
• mobile phone hacking and network building
• playing corporate and government games in your mom’s basement
• new methods and paradigms for privacy and personal data sovereignty
• enforcing net neutrality as we understand it
• mimicking large scale communication infrastructure to deceive data mining, data retention, surveillance

Visionary:

• who owns the past, who owns your data, who owns math, who owns genes, who owns the net?
• new models and ideas for just and fair content enumeration
• sci-fi to sci-fact: from drones to teleportation, opening portals to other dimensions and star systems
• free software for implants
• (ab)using electronics and computers in new areas: homes, cars, airplanes, stock exchanges, nuclear power plants, hadron colliders
• beyond helvetica: using technology and infrastructure for art, peace, sex, joy and fun
• DIY martian laser weapons and cow disruptors for lulz and profit
• applied MacGyverism

We invite you to participate at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress, focused on advancing the state of the art in hacking, making, and new perspectives on politics and privacy in the information age. Proposals of about 300 words for talks lasting either 30 or 45 minutes should be sent to our Pentabarf submission system by October 9, 2010. A notice of acceptance or decline will be sent out until November 9, 2010 by e-mail.

Note that the number of submissions is usually very high. So please try to submit a meaningful and complete description that tells us what you want to present. Sales and marketing droids are known to vanish without any trace at the congress, please refrain from submitting company propaganda. Also assume that other people submit a talk on the same topic, so try to communicate in your submission why we should pick yours. Feel free to also include some facts about yourself and your motivation.

We don´t care if your talk has already been held at a conference on the other side of the world, but we do expect up-to-date content. We offer five-minute “lightning talk” slots for “I have written this cool thing”-announcements, “someone should do this”-rants and other brief contributions. Those are not reviewed by our content team, check the wiki-page beforehand or just show up at the lightning talk slots.

While the 27C3 is an international conference that aims to present lots of content in English, we would rather have a good presentation in German than a bad one in so-called Denglisch. So please be honest when judging your language skills and choose your lecture language accordingly.

Photo Credit: choudoudou

Some of you might have already noticed that the biggest part of this year’s SIGINT recordings were published on ftp.ccc.de. These videos are also available for online viewing in your web browser in our media archive.

The last bunch of videos will be available after manual cutting and reencoding. Unfortunately this needs some time. But it will not be forgotten. This is the list of those 28 missing files to complete the 68 recordings in total:

• “cognitive_cities”
• “the_medium_is_the_messiah”
• “computer.spiele.politik”
• “buying_privacy_in_digitized_cities”
• “future_3.0″
• “heart_of_gold”
• “die_gescheiterte_revolution”
• “die_kirche_im_staat_lassen”
• “the_road_to_hell_is_paved_with_best_practices”
• “volkszaehler”
• “der_bug”
• “hoist_the_colours”
• “keykeriki_v2″
• “peer_to_peer_communism”
• “datenbrief”
• “reach_out_and_touch_face”
• “das_leben_der_anderen”
• “indect”
• “misstraue_autoritäten”
• “auf_schritt_und_tritt”
• “interaktive_demokratie”
• “identitaets-kriege”
• “digitaler_steuerbuerger”
• “die_verfassungsbeschwerde_in_sachen_elena”
• “deutschlandradio_-_breitband”
• “(dis-)connected_worlds”
• “eine_zensur_findet_statt”
• “schoene_neue_kreative_welt”

The videos are in an Matroska format with the video encoded in x264 720p and audio in Ogg Vorbis. Feel free to reencode these videos in your favorite format for watching on your handheld and mobile devices.

Comments and recommendations are appreciated.

Die mrmcd1001b, die metarheinmain chaosdays finden dieses Jahr vom 3.-5.9 in Darmstadt statt.
Hierfür möchten wir auf den Vorverkauf und die Möglichkeit, einen Vortrag einzureichen, hinweisen.
Der Eintritt im Vorverkauf (bis Anfang August) beträgt 23 Euro, hier sind Frühstück und Kaffeeflat (inklusive hochexklusiver Tasse) inbegriffen. Für Vor-Ort-Zahler gibt es nur eine mässig exklusive Kaffeetasse.

Vortragseinreichungen nehmen wir über Pentabarf entgegen.

Mehr Infos und die Anmeldung gibt es unter http://mrmcd1001b.metarheinmain.de/

Der Fall Sarrazin rüttelt die Berliner Politik auf. Zwar gibt es keinen Zweifel daran, dass die Aussagen des Polit-Provokateurs zu jüdischen Genen und kollektiver Dummheit nicht hinzunehmen sind - allerdings räumen Kanzlerin Merkel und SPD-Chef Gabriel Missstände bei der Integration ein. Sarrazin sieht sich unterdessen von der Bevölkerung getragen.

Die Erinnerungen an den verheerenden Luftangriff vor einem Jahr sind in Kundus weiterhin wach. Zur Trauer ist die Enttäuschung über den andauernden Streit um die Zahlung von Entschädigungen gekommen, aus dem nun die Taliban Kapital schlagen.

In Dortmund kommt es zu tumultartigen Szenen, als Neonazis eine Kundgebung durchführen. Sie war kurzfristig erlaubt worden. Das hielt jedoch zahlreiche Gegendemonstranten nicht vom Erscheinen in der Stadt ab.

Sehr, sehr langsam formiert sich Widerstand gegen die umstrittene Abschiebepolitik der französischen Regierung unter der Federführung von Präsident Sarkozy. Tausende Roma sollen, angeblich freiwillig, das Land verlassen. Sie können die Anforderungen des Bleiberechts einfach nicht erfüllen.

Immer wieder gerät die US-Söldnerfirma Blackwater in die Kritik. Erst vor Kurzem verurteilt sie ein Gericht zu Strafen in Millionenhöhe - wegen illegaler Waffenexporte. Nun bahnt sich ein neuer Skandal an: Blackwater soll sich unter dem Deckmantel anderer Namen Aufträge der US-Behörden ergattert haben.

Toshiba has announced what it claims will be the world's fastest SDHC UHS-I and the world's first microSDHC UHS-I compliant memory cards. To be available in 32GB, 16GB and 8GB capacities, the SDHC cards will offer read and write speeds of up to 95MB/s and 80MB/s respectively. The microSDHC cards will be available in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB capacities with read and write speeds of up to 45MB/s and 20MB/s. The company says mass production of the SDHC UHS-I cards and sample shipments of the new microSDHC UHS-I cards will begin from November 2010.

Just posted! Our Sony SLT-A33 preview samples gallery. We've already treated the A33's bigger brother, the SLT-A55, to an in-depth review. No we've had a chance to get out and shoot with the slightly lower-spec A33 as well. It lacks the GPS module of the A55 and comes with a slightly lower sensor resolution but is otherwise almost identical to Sony's top-of-the-range translucent mirror model. Have a look through our gallery and see for yourself what the Sony SLT-A33 has to offer in terms of image quality.

Datacolor has announced the SpyderLensCal focus calibrator. The device allows photographers to measure the AF performance of their camera/lens combinations. On DSLRs with a micro-adjustment feature, this tool can be used to help determine the best values to set in the camera's custom settings menu to correct front or back focus. SpyderLensCal will be available from September 6, 2010 at a suggested retail price of $59.

Tamron has announced that it has cooperated with Adobe in the creation of profiles for the Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3's Lens Correction feature. The latest version of the image-editing software will automatically fix distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting for all currently available Tamron lenses (no word yet on the latest 70-300mm F4-5.6 VC USD though).

Kodak has announced the ESP 9250 Wi-fi-enabled all-in-one inkjet printer with print, copy, scan and fax capability. It includes the company's proprietary fade-resistant inks with what it claims the lowest total ink replacement cost in the industry. The printer features a 2.4-inch LCD, built-in templates and supports various memory card formats. The printer is now available at $249.99.