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The aim of this talk is to critically analyse the use of digital technology in the current context of global ecological injustice and the collapse of ecosystems. But how can we strive for and promote a sustainable, just and democratic digital future? The challenges are huge and include the digital world's hunger for energy as well as the exploitative global practices of tech companies or the discussion of the current AI sustainability hype. But which digital tools make sense, which do not and how can we achieve global social emancipation from self-destructive structures and towards ecological sustainability and a and a just world? about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/on_digitalisation_sustainability_climate_justice/

Die zwölf Jahre seit der Selbstenttarnung des NSU haben gezeigt, dass auf den Staat bei der Aufklärung und Aufarbeitung von rechtem Terror kein Verlass ist. Deshalb haben Betroffene von rechter Gewalt, Antifaschist\*innen und Zivilgesellschaft diese Aufgabe wieder und wieder selbst in die Hand genommen. Die daraus gewonnenen Analysen, die Aufklärung und die entstandenen solidarischen Netzwerke sind vielfältiger, als sich viele am Anfang vorgestellt haben. Doch wir wollen fragen: Was können nächste Schritte sein? Wie können wir rechten Terror verhindern? Das bundesweite antifaschistische Bündnis NSU-Watch hat im Sommer 2023 sein Buch „Aufklären und Einmischen. Der NSU-Komplex und der Münchener Prozess“ in der erweiterten Neuauflage herausgebracht. Es gibt einen Überblick über die bisherige Aufarbeitung des NSU-Komplexes. Auf dieser Grundlage wollen Vortrag und Lesung fragen: Was können nächste Schritte sein? Wie können wir rechten Terror verhindern? Die Antworten sind vielfältig und warten teilweise noch darauf, entdeckt zu werden. Und trotzdem bleibt die Gefahr rechten Terrors hoch, auch weil auf staatlicher, behördlicher und gesellschaftlicher Seite Konsequenzen noch ausstehen. Doch wir wissen bereits jetzt genug, um rechtem Terror aktiv entgegenzuwirken. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/gemeinsam_gegen_rechten_terror_aber_wie/

Mit einem Glas in der Hand durch die Chemie und Physik eines überraschend komplizierten Getränks Whisky ist ein scheinbar einfaches Getränk: Wasser, Hefe, Gerstenmalz und dann drei Jahre ins Eichenfass. Doch bei genauerem Hinsehen bleiben viele Fragen offen. Warum muss man Scotch Whisky in einer Destille aus Kupfer herstellen? Weshalb werden die Fässer ausgebrannt? Und warum schmeckt mancher Whisky nach Lagerfeuer, andere aber nach Krankenhaus? Hinter all dem stecken oft überraschende chemische und physikalische Prozesse, die auch heute noch Rätsel aufgeben. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/die-wissenschaft-vom-whisky/

Von Simone Herpich (Balkonsolar eV) und Dr. Juliane Borchert (Fraunhofer Institut für Solare Energiesysteme) lasse ich mir alles (so viel wie geht) über Solarenergie erzählen. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/erklr-ma-solarenergie/

In diesem Vortrag wollen wir auf die letzten knapp drei Jahre Kampf gegen die Chatkontrolle zurückblicken. Ein Kampf, der genauso droht zu einem Wiedergänger zu werden wie die Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Wir waren auf eine harte Auseinandersetzung um Überwachung und sichere Kommunikation vorbereitet. Als Patrick 2020 angefangen, hat uns vor dem, was da kommt, zu warnen, haben wir nicht erwartet, dass es sich zu einer Tragödie entwickeln würde, in der es nicht um Kinderschutz oder Überwachung geht. Sondern um eine Kommission, der jedes Mittel recht ist. Und Korruption und Lobbyskandal. Über die Chatkontrolle wurde in den letzten zwei Jahren viel geredet – die problematischen Inhalte des Gesetzes kommen den meisten von uns wahrscheinlich zu den Ohren heraus. Aber letztlich geht es um nicht weniger als einen historischen Kampf um Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung. Auf dem Tisch liegt das Thema aber schon deutlich länger. Wir wollen zurückblicken auf die Ursprünge und Kernpunkte des Gesetzesvorschlags. Und dann zusammen mit dem Publikum noch einmal die unüberschaubaren Wege gehen, die die Arbeit an diesem Gesetzesentwurf genommen hat. Aus der Perspektive von Deutschlands oberstem Datenschützer (Ulrich Kelber), dem Abgeordneten des Europäischen Parlamanets (Patrick Breyer) und der digitalen Zivilgesellschaft (khaleesi) erzählen wir die bisherige Geschichte der Chatkontrolle. Wenn ihr dachtet, ihr hättet alles zur Chatkontrolle gehört, bereitet euch auf eine absurde Tragödie vor, die ihr Ende noch nicht gefunden hat. Trotz des Erfolgs im EU-Parlament haben wir noch lange nicht gewonnen. Denn alles hängt im und am Rat, dessen Position könnte im Trilog alles zunichte machen was wir hart erarbeitet haben. Und auch die Europawahlen stehen vor der Tür und damit kann sich nochmal alles ändern. Nicht fertige Gesetze werden in der EU in der nächste Legislaturperiode einfach weiterverhandelt. Um die Chatkontrolle endgültig zu stoppen, darf keine EU-Abgeordnete durch den Wahlkampf kommen, ohne sich klar zum Schutz von Verschlüsselung zu bekennen. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/chatkontrolle_-_es_ist_noch_nicht_vorbei/

In the original Hacker Ethics, Steven Levy stated that "you can create art and beauty on a computer". That was 40 years ago, creating art and beauty is one thing, but how do you maintain or develop it as a gallery, archive or museum? You know all about CI/CD and deploying to "the cloud"? Well, let me show you how to deploy to a museum or art space. Important note: this talk is not about NFTs. The preservation and presentation of software/computer-based art in museums presents unique challenges in the contemporary landscape. One prominent issue is the ephemeral nature of digital media, which includes websites, games, software and virtual reality art. Unlike traditional art forms, these works often rely on rapidly evolving technologies, making them vulnerable to obsolescence. Museums are faced with the task of preserving and restoring media art in a way that not only preserves the original intent of the artist, but also ensures accessibility for future audiences. Another significant challenge is the dynamic and interactive nature of many media artworks. Unlike static paintings or sculptures, digital artworks often require specific hardware, software or immersive environments to be experienced. Museums need to invest in both the technological infrastructure and the expertise to recreate these conditions and provide visitors with an authentic encounter with the artwork. In this talk we want to look at some solutions from the perspective of software developers who are motivated not only to preserve and present digital media art, but also to develop it with contemporary software development strategies. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/devops_but_for_artworks_in_museums/

I have previously given talks about security principles and approaches like Least Privilege, TCB Minimization, and Self Sandboxing. The most frequent feedback has been "I don't know how to apply this in practice". So, in this talk, I will show how I applied those principles in a real-world software project: a CRUD web app. My blog. I introduced dangerous attack surface on purpose so I could some day give a talk about how to apply these techniques to reduce risk. This is that talk. I will also introduce the concept of append-only data storage. The end goal of this talk is to show how much more security you can achieve if you don't take an existing architecture and try to sprinkle security over it, but you make architectural decisions with security in mind. This is rarely done in practice because there is a fundamental disagreement between security and software engineering. Security is about limiting what can be done with the software, while software engineering is about not limiting what can be done with the software. My goal with this talk is to show what kind of security gains are possible architecturally. You, too, can sleep soundly at night. Even if the software is written in C. Even if you have bad ACLs or a buffer overflow in the software. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/writing_secure_software/

Wir sollten uns alle mehr Zeit für Mental Health Care nehmen, also mehr für unsere psychische Gesundheit tun. Ich zeige Euch, mit welchen einfachen Schritten das auch zuhause geht... Und wie und wo Ihr professionelle Hilfe dabei findet, wenn Ihr sie braucht - und warum die klassischen Therapiemethoden bei neurodiversen Menschen oft nicht so gut funktionieren. Der erste Teil des Talks klärt, was Mental Health eigentlich ist, wer die braucht (Spoiler: wir alle) und wie sich mit Mental Health Care Resilienz aufbauen lässt. Wir müssen aber auch darüber sprechen, was dieses "Home" eigentlich ist - und ob Ihr das als wichtigsten Mental Health - Skill erkannt habt und nutzt. Ich stelle Euch einfache Skills für Zuhause und unterwegs vor, wie ich sie in der DBT kennen- und schätzen gelernt habe. Skills auch für Menschen ohne psychische Diagnosen - damit das auch so bleibt. Und im dritten Teil reden wir über die Situation, dass und wenn Ihr doch mal Unterstützung für die Psyche braucht: Wie und wo findet Ihr Unterstützung? Ambulante oder stationäre Therapie - oder ganz ungewöhnliche Art der Therapie (Wawuschel-Style)? Und warum brauchen neurodiverse Menschen andere, leider in unserem Gesundheitssystem nicht vertretene, Therapien? Schickt mir gerne vor dem Talk Eure Themen und Fragen zu Mental Health Care zuhause mit, damit ich die einbauen kann. :) about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/try-mental-health-care-zuhause/

What is Sápmi? And who are the Sami people? Why is their land threatened by the so-called Green Transition? Why is Europe's largest data centre being built on their land? We would like to try to answer these questions and explain in detail why "our green transition" is a threat to the land and rights of the Sami people. We will also discuss the so-called green server infrastructure in Sápmi for example the largest data centre in Europe (by Facebook). We are from the Decolonise Sápmi info tour through Germany and not Sámi ourselves. Our talk is based on presentations given by Sámi people during our tour. Sápmi is located in northern Europe and refers to the land of the Sámi people. Over time it has been colonized by Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. As a result, the Sámi have been subjected to various forms of oppression and discrimination by these countries to this day. Sápmi and Sápmi’s colonial history are presented. Current forms of oppression are also addressed. An important role is played by “green capitalism,” a form of capitalism in which oppression is advanced under the guise of climate protection. Some examples include: Dams that disrupt reindeer migration routes and flood sacred Sámi sites, or wind turbines that are widely avoided by reindeer. Of course, the lectures will also address the problems that mines pose for the Sámi. A topic which was discussed lately with the discussion around the rare earths found in the so-called Sweden also here in Germany. Furthermore, the problems caused by the still occurring clear-cutting in the area of the Sámi and the resulting loss of biodiversity are explained. What resistance has there been in recent years against this capitalist destruction and (green) colonialism? What is the current situation in Sápmi and what does the future look like? about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/ecocide_and_green_colonialism_in_sapmi/

The Solar System has had 8 planets ever since Pluto was excluded in 2006. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. But did you know Neptune was discovered as the 12th planet? Or that, 80 years before Star Trek, astronomers seriously suspected a planet called Vulcan near the Sun? This talk will take you through centuries of struggling with the question: Do you even planet?! In antiquity, scientists counted the 7 classical planets: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn – but their model of the universe was wrong. Two thousand years later, a new model was introduced. It was less wrong, and it brought the number of planets down to 6: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Since then, it's been a roller coaster ride of planet discoveries and dismissals. In this talk, we stagger through the smoke and mirrors of scientific history. We meet old friends like Uranus and Neptune, forgotten lovers like Ceres, Psyche and Eros, fallen celebrities like Pluto, regicidal interlopers like Eris and Makemake as well as mysterious strangers like Vulcan, Planet X and Planet Nine. Find out how science has been tricked by its own vanity, been hampered by too little (or too much!) imagination, and how human drama can make a soap opera out of a question as simple as: How Many Planets in Our Solar System? about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/how_many_planets_in_our_solar_system_glad_you_asked/

Why do some people stay fit and healthy easier than others, even when following the same health advice? Why does the same medication work well in one person, but not in another? Some of our individuality in these regards may trace to which bacteria we carry in the soil of our intestinal gardens. In this talk, drawing on work by my own research lab at the Charité and on that by our collaborators and rivals elsewhere in the world, I outline what we know, what we speculate, and what obstacles remain in the way of widespread adoption of personalized health prevention through microbiome sequencing. Despite our best efforts of finding the perfect regimen of diet, exercise and medication to keep any person fit and healthy, outcomes for different people vary widely for all of these measures, even when we comply with them fully. Some of this traces to our individual genetics, which remains difficult to change, but another source of variation in responses may come from differences between our gut microbiomes. Human bodies are not sterile, and our skin, our mucosal surfaces and, in particular, our intestines are home to many more bacteria than there are human cells in our bodies, representing hundreds of different species in each person. These microbial ecosystems, or microbiomes, are found in all animals and have coevolved with their hosts. Therefore we rely on commensal ("friendly") bacteria for many functions, including breaking down nutrients, converting some medications into their active forms, producing certain crucial compounds for us from our diet, and helping our immune systems mature and remain tuned. The microbiota also contains temporary visitors and both transient and resident opportunistic pathogens, often kept in check by the immune system and by the commensals, but sometimes escaping such control to multiply and cause disease. Human gut microbiomes begin establishing at birth and evolve over a lifetime, but remain quite stable within each person throughout adulthood unless something serious like repeated antibiotic cures disrupt them. However, they can differ quite substantially between individuals as well as between populations, reflecting factors such as nutrition and environmental exposures. It has been proposed, and to a degree already demonstrated, that differences between individuals in which gut bacteria they harbour may underlie differences in their susceptibility to disease, their resilience to stressors, and their responses to environmental stimuli. Thus the variation in responses to the same lifestyle between different people may reflect their gut microbiomes. This would open up several venues of personalized medicine, lifestyle advice and nutrition. Choice of medications, diets or interventions could be selected according to a person's specific microbiome to be most effective. It might also be possible to potentiate such interventions by altering the gut microbiome in different ways, such as through antibiotics, probiotics, nutrition or through microbiome transplantation from another person. Alternately put, by adapting the microbiome to a lifestyle intervention, and/or adapting a lifestyle intervention to the microbiome, we may be able to optimize how a given person can seek and achieve fitness and health. In this talk, I will outline what we know on these topics so far, especially from studies using large-scale microbial (meta-)genome DNA sequencing. In this talk I will draw on work by my own lab at the Charité in Berlin, as well as that of our colleagues, rivals and collaborators elsewhere in the world. I will give examples of known gut microbial modulation of human responses to the external environment and introduce the most common strategies both for researching such effects and for their leverage as health-promoting tools. Where there are limits to our knowledge or obstacles to its practical application, I will identify those obstacles and suggest ways to overcome them. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/gut_feelings_can_we_optimize_lifestyle_diet_and_medication_according_to_our_respective_microbiota/

Über die letzten vier Jahre sind in der Nautosphäre um den Chaos Computer Club, Deutschland, Europa und der Welt aufregende, irritierende, bemerkenswerte und empörenswerte Dinge passiert, bei deren Einordnung wir gerne helfend zur Seite stehen wollen. Von Berichten aus den Erfahrungsaustauschkreisen über die digitalen Hausbesuche bei den Luca-Apps dieser Welt, von kleinen und riesengroßen Hacker-Veranstaltungen zu den inzwischen schöne Tradition gewordenen Gutachten für unser Verfassungsgericht wollen wir in vielen kleinen Wortmeldung ein rundes Bild zu den Entwicklungen der letzten vier Jahre und einen Ausblick auf das Jahr 2024 geben. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/vierjahresruckblick_des_ccc/

Presentation/introduction to the ongoing 37C3 art exhibition groupshow with Joachim Blank, Eva Davidova, Meredith Drum, exonemo, Jonas Lund, Sahej Rahal, Ingeborg Wie by panke.gallery (Sakrowski). With ANIMAL()CITY we draw inspiration from the ghostly presence of foxes that roam the city at night – which nowadays is a common appearance in urban environments – evoking echoes of a pre-industrial era while at the same time drawing people’s attention to a layer of the city that completely eludes their perception in everyday life. In these moments we witness animals and plants forming their own realm and the city itself having its own life, acting like an entity, a ghost at times. Encounters with wild animals in the city make the parallel layers of the landscape momentarily tangible and remind us that we are part of these ‘non-human’ networks as well. On a darker note: urban wildlife not only echoes pre-industrial times but also projects an idea of what our cities will look like when all the people have disappeared due to the consequences of the climate catastrophe. However, the city may also be read analogous to the internet. Animals, humans and plants seldomly interact within the city, and while we might notice traces or encounter their phantoms we seem to live in parallel worlds. Similarly, online we are divided by platforms into threads and channels, living in multi-layered structures haunted by uncanny bots and AI agents. We believe that AR sculptures highlight an ethereal quality of the digital; they appear to transcend from the realm of immateriality into the physical space – the so-called spatial internet that overlays our cities. AR layers possess a magical quality in that they exist as objects whose influence on our world is – on a first step – contingent to our acceptance and perception of them as physical objects. ANIMAL()CITY is an aesthetic inquiry of the artists’ views on how AR may intercept different layers of perception and realities or completely superimpose them. The exhibition presents a collection of animals that transcend their natural forms and assume various "non-natural" shapes; from fantastical mythical creatures to archetypical animal sculpture adhering to classical composition to the most basic 3D animal assets, taken from game engine templates. These AR-animals introduce elements of imagination to their representation, inviting viewers to explore their own interpretations and engage with the artworks on different levels. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/animal_city/

In October 2022 a gamma-ray burst dubbed the 'Brightest Of All Times' smashed records. But what is that actually, a gamma-ray burst? How do we detect it? And why was the BOAT so special? Gamma-ray bursts are the biggest explosions in our Universe since the Big Bang: In just a few seconds, they release as much energy as the Sun will radiate over its entire lifetime. Even though they occur in far-away galaxies, their emission dominates the high-energy astrophysical sky during their seconds-long duration. They come from the cataclysmic deaths of very massive stars or the mergers of two compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes. In both cases the energy is concentrated in an astrophysical jet moving at approximately the speed of light. In October 2022, a once-in-a-lifetime gamma-ray burst smashed records and was dubbed the ‘Brightest of All Time,’ or the BOAT. In fact, it was so bright that it oversaturated the most sensitive gamma-ray burst monitors, posing a challenge for data reconstruction and analysis. But why was it so bright? And how long do we have to wait until the next one? Using the BOAT as an example, we will give an introduction about the fascinating phenomena called gamma-ray bursts. From their accidental discovery during the Cold War to our still surprisingly limited understanding of their nature. The talk will revisit the state-of-the-art of theoretical modelling/interpretations (how are jets launched? what produces the gamma rays?), as well as current detector techniques (how do we catch a gamma-ray photon on Earth or in space?). Naturally, we will also discuss what we really learn from prominent, outstanding events such as the BOAT -- and the questions that still give scientists headaches. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/about_gamma-ray_bursts_and_boats/

They call it RFC 9420, we say MLS: A new IETF standard for end-to-end encryption was published in July and brings large improvements in performance and security compared to existing protocols. We are here to present Messaging Layer Security, its ecosystem and its roadmap. The MLS protocol is already being used in production to end-to-end encrypt Webex conference calls and will soon provide encryption for Android messages and RCS 2.0 for billions of users. Other messaging tools (such as Discord, Matrix, Wire, etc.) are currently trialing MLS and are expected to follow. Why was the protocol developed in the first place? How does it work? What are the next steps for MLS? MLS improves upon existing protocols such as Signal in group messaging applications. We co-authored the protocol specification and will briefly talk about what motivated the creation of MLS, how it relates to other existing messaging protocols as well as its design process in general. As a group messaging protocol, the security guarantees provided by MLS go beyond authentication and confidentiality. We will go into detail on what security properties users can expect and take a look under the hood on how MLS works. While the MLS specification has only been published recently, more work is underway and an ecosystem is already forming around the standard. We’ll touch on topics like MLS implementations, metadata hiding, federation, and interoperability between messengers (also in the context of the new IETF MIMI working group [1]). And of course we’ll share insights into the future of Messaging Layer Security! [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/mimi/about/ about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/rfc_9420_or_how_to_scale_end-to-end_encryption_with_messaging_layer_security/

Mit der Programmiersprache SuperCollider komponiere ich seit einigen Jahren elektronische Musik, Klangkunst und Sound Design. Dieser Talk ist eine kurze, praxisbezogene Einführung ins Klangbasteln mit Code. SuperCollider ist eine Programmiersprache mit einem eigenen Audioserver. Vom grundlegenden Sound Design über die Komposition, Effekte und Signalfluss wird alles über Code gesteuert. Zugleich kann SuperCollider mit anderen Systemen interagieren, zum Beispiel über MIDI, OpenSoundControl oder Arduino. In meinem Talk spreche ich über * Was ist SuperCollider und wofür ist es gut? * Die SC IDE: Aufbau und Hilfesystem; alternative Editoren * Grundlegende Syntax * Das "Hallo Welt"-Äquivalent von SuperCollider * Eine etwas komplexere Klangfunktion * SynthDefs: die Sound Design-"Blaupausen" in SuperCollider * Komposition mit Patterns * Tipps zum Einstieg und Lernen * Vorstellung einer kleinen Beispielkomposition about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/klnge-coden-eine-einfhrung-in-supercollider/

In diesem Vortrag beschreibe ich die Geschichte und den Gegenstand des Social Engineerings über den Tech-Kontext hinaus und erkläre anhand relevanter Forschung, wie, warum und bei wem es wirkt. Die modernen technischen Herausforderungen werden ebenso erläutert wie Maßnahmen, die jetzt oder in der Zukunft gegen Social Engineering getroffen werden können – individuell oder in Gruppen bzw. Organisationen. Über verschiedene Epochen hinweg hat sich Social Engineering stets in der kriminellen Nutzung hervorgetan. Professionelle Hochstapler, Trickbetrüger und Agenten nutzten Social Engineering erfolgreich für kriminelle Unterfangen, Datensammlung oder einfach weil es Spaß machte. Doch Social Engineering ist eigentlich ein sehr alltägliches Phänomen. Jeder Mensch ist mindestens in seiner Kindheit ein geschickter Social Engineer. Manche machen es sich zum Beruf, sei es als Verkäufer oder Red-Teamer. Denn Social Engineering ist in seinem Kern die Kunst der Überzeugung anderer Personen. Die psychologische Forschung hat sich seit den 1970ern intensiv damit beschäftigt, wie andere Menschen sich überzeugen lassen und welche Methoden dafür geeignet sind. Die zentralen Modelle und Konzepte wie das ELM-Modell und verschiedene kognitive Verzerrungen (Biases) werden vorgestellt, es wird praktisch veranschaulicht, welche Rolle sie für Social Engineering spielen. Einige Mythen, die in Bezug auf Social Engineering im Umlauf sind, werden beschrieben und aufgeklärt, die ein oder anderen Fun Facts, die so vielleicht noch nicht allen bekannt sind, zur Sprache kommen. Im finalen Teil des Vortrags dreht sich alles um den größten Bereich von bösartigem Social Engineering, der heutzutage online stattfindet. Ich werde die grundlegenden Klassifizierungen von Social Engineering praktisch relevant anhand neuester Forschung erklären und Maßnahmen aufzeigen, die wirklich helfen - konträr zu dem, was einige Berater gerne verkaufen. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/social_engineering_geschichte_wirkung_massnahmen/

This introductory session will outline the process of hacking internet-connected devices, with the help of a real world example: Poly telephones and conference speaker systems. We will explain vulnerabilities we identified in them and how they can be leveraged to transform the devices into wiretaps. In this introductory session we will journey into the field of internet-connected device security. Our talk aims to empower beginners by simplifying the process of hacking such devices. We'll discuss vulnerabilities we uncovered in Poly telephones and conference speaker systems and describe how we effectively transformed a seemingly innocuous conference speaker into a fully functional wiretap. We'll begin with straightforward findings accessible to beginners and progress to more technical discoveries, so that people with no experience in the field can follow along, too. By the end of the talk, the attendees will have a foundational understanding of how they can approach hacking such a device and will have learned how the impact of vulnerabilities can be shown and increased by chaining them. All the vulnerabilities we discovered during our research have been responsibly disclosed to the vendor and will be published in December 2023. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/finding_vulnerabilities_in_internet-connected_devices/

Let's explore how online communities of activists can help to bring about forms of radical collective change, through decolonial practices of social (un)learning. What enabling conditions need to be put in place? And what counts as "radical change" in the first place?! It's plain to see: modern societies need to undergo radical social, political, and cultural transformations if they are to truly evolve away from capitalist and neocolonial structures founded on egregious exploitation and injustice. In a context of widespread epistemic fragmentation and echo chambers, we urgently need to become better at harnessing the generative power of socio-technical networks to unite our forces as we compost the harmful ways of being, knowing, and doing that are at the root of our our planetary predicament. But we must do so critically, and not view technology as a miracle solution to anything. What could be the role of the internet, and of online communities in particular, in exploring how such deep changes might happen? And how may everyone's wisdom and skills come together in democratic and sophisticated social (un)learning systems, to figure out the way(s) forward? In this talk, we will discuss the results of a 5-year participatory action research program which considered this topic within two different online communities of activists. This project led the researchers to tackle the idea of radical collective change as involving a decolonial approach to collaboration, knowledge, and community-building, and to consider the enabling and disabling conditions - both social and technological - that may influence whether change happens... or not. In particular, this research highlighted the importance of enabling participants to engage on an equal footing and self-organise, while learning to "stay with the trouble" of confronting modern societies' fundamentally unsustainable and oppressive structures, and one's own implication in them. And it also showed some of the pitfalls that come with the use of digital communication tools, as we try to use them to create a better world. Three of the many insights I will substantiate and examine in the talk are: - that online communities have the potential to create deep changes in people when they are built in ways that foster deep relationships, criticality and conflict transformation, and emergent leadership; - that changing socio-political structures must go together with joyful, liberating practices that can help us unlearn harmful cultural patterns that get in the way; and - that perhaps we should be less interested in becoming experts, and rather find the courage and open hearts allowing us to be fearlessly and fiercely present to the world, with all its shit, its wonder, and its uncertainty. Feeling curious? Join us for a chat on how to change the world! about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/seeds_of_change/

Digitalisierung in der Schule ist spannend, schwierig, und enorm umstritten. Insbesondere in der Verwaltung fehlt es an freien Tools. AlekSIS ist ein umfangreiches freies Schul-Informations-System, das organisatorische Prozesse digitalisieren kann. Wir möchten einen kurzen Einblick geben, was AlekSIS ist, was es kann, wo es aktuell eingesetzt wird und wie die aktuelle Entwicklung aussieht. Weitere Informationen zu AlekSIS auf https://aleksis.org about this event: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/37c3-lightningtalks/talk/NGE7W8/

Scotland Yard ist ein Brettspiel bei dem es darum geht sich als Gruppe auf einem Stadtplan von London zu koordinieren um einen flüchtigen Mr X zu fassen. Wir haben dieses Konzept in die echte Welt übertragen und als Open Source Web-App für Karlsruhe umgesetzt. In diesem Lightning Talk tauchen wir in die aufregende Welt von Scotland Yard ein und zeigen, wie wir dieses fesselnde Spiel in die Realität übertragen haben. Inspiriert von den spannenden Jagden nach dem flüchtigen Mr X auf dem Londoner Stadtplan, haben wir eine Open-Source-Web-App entwickelt, die es den Spielern ermöglicht, sich in den Straßenbahnen von Karlsruhe zu koordinieren, um ihren eigenen "Mr X" zu finden. Wir erkunden die Herausforderungen und den Reiz, ein Brettspiel in die reale Welt zu übertragen. Von der Kartierung der Stadt bis hin zur Implementierung von Strategien und Mechaniken, die es den Teilnehmern ermöglichen, die Rolle von Ermittlern oder dem flüchtigen "X" zu übernehmen, beleuchten wir den gesamten Prozess der Umsetzung dieses aufregenden Konzepts. Wenn ihr Spaß an Hotfixes, weirden Bugs und deployment nach Spielstart habt, kommt gerne vorbei. about this event: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/37c3-lightningtalks/talk/U8XGFL/

This talk will give a brief introduction of deep learning models and the energy they consume for training and inference. We then discuss what methods currently exist for handling their complexity, and how neural network parameter counts could grow by orders of magnitude, despite the end of Moore's law. Declared dead numerous times, the hype around deep learning is bigger than ever. With Large Language Models and Diffusion Models becoming a commodity, we ask the question of how bad their energy consumption *really* is, what we can do about it, and how it is possible to run cutting-edge language models on off-the-shelf GPUs. We will look at the various ways that people have come up with to rein in the hunger for resources of deep learning models, and why we still struggle to keep up with the demands of modern neural network model architectures. From low-bitwidth integer representation, through pruning of redundant connections and using a large network to teach a small one, all the way to quickly adapting existing models using low-rank adaptation. This talk aims to give the audience an estimation of the amount of energy modern machine learning models consume to allow for more informed decisions around their usage and regulations. In the second part, we discuss the most common techniques used for running modern architectures on commodity hardware, outside of data centers. Hopefully, deeper insights into these methods will help improve experimentation with and access to deep learning models. about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/what_is_this_a_machine_learning_model_for_ants/

Viele Geräte für Zuhause gehen viel zu schnell kaputt. Wie mach ich diese wieder fit? Viele Geräte für Zuhause gehen viel zu schnell kaputt. Wie mach ich diese wieder fit? Bügeleisen, Soundbar (Bose!), Elektrogrills etc. haben zumindest ein eingbautes Teil das nach wenigen Jahren den kompletten Bebtrieb des Gerätes verhindert. Absolute Frechheit, gut dass sich der Entstörkondensator in Serie zum Netz für 2-3€ Materialkosten ersetzen lässt. Ein paar Fotos, woher Ersatzteile bekommen, welche, auf was achten? (Werte, Typen, Grösse.) Warum wird das so gemacht, kurze Erklärung dieses "Netzteil" Aufbaus von modernem Wahnsinn. about this event: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/37c3-lightningtalks/talk/ZP7EEP/

Computertechnik, von Grund auf erklärt Xyrill arbeitet in der Softwareentwicklung und hat sich auch beim Hacker-Jeopardy schon einen Namen gemacht. Jetzt möchte sein Co-Host ttimeless, seines Zeichens Tischlermeister, mal wissen, wie der ganze Computerkram eigentlich genau funktioniert. Und das schon seit mittlerweile 50 Folgen, von A wie algorithmische Komplexität bis Z wie Zeitdarstellung. Alle Folgen und den Link zum Podcast-Feed gibt es unter https://schlüsseltechnologie-podcast.de/ about this event: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/37c3-lightningtalks/talk/EUNDLQ/

Das Open Source Projekt lernOS (lernos.org) verwendet für die Publikation von Lern-Leitfäden Markdown-Quellen, die über eine Produktionskette mit pandoc in eine Webseite sowie PDF- und E-Book-Versionen konvertiert wird. Der Lightning Talk stellt den Ansatz vor und zeigt einige Problemfelder. about this event: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/37c3-lightningtalks/talk/LKH3RA/