Hey party people, tinkerers, thinkers and hackers with colorful hats. The Chaos Computer Congress is coming to Hamburg again, and we’ll be there and square! Have a look at the wiki and decide on your level of participation and involvement. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly:Noisy_Square
A German and an American hacker running around in circles around a golf cart at a camping. It bears one of the chief organisers of the Dutch hacker camp, who is otherwise the public relations director of a major security company working for the national police. The foreigners entangle the vehicle in a yellow tape … [Read more…]
The dust has had it’s time to settle. Just a little over a month ago we pitched our tents, had four days of intense collaboration and abandoned this temporal physical space. Already during OHM2013 it was clear that the Noisy Square had struck a chord with many and there seems no reason why N² should … [Read more…]
The closing keynote of four days of Noisy Square at OHM was delivered by Eleanor Saitta (Dymaxion). A volunteer effort (Lunar, hdez, kali, KheOps, pabs, zilog and others) transcribed and proofread the full text of her call to arms. Audio recording — 43 minutes — MP3 — 99 MB Foreword: I’d like to thank Quinn … [Read more…]
Why should you run your own fucking infrastructure? mc.Fly of CCC and Milliways starts his talk with a list of arguments. For one, using services like Gmail and Hotmail means giving governments access to your data. And then there is all the stuff a provider can do to your data. They may cancel their service … [Read more…]
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Simcards are arguably the most widespread hardware devices on this globe. Finding a leak and exploiting that could have an enormous impact. Linus N gave a workshop on an overview of recent the leak found on simcards. In essence, simcards can be reporgrammed by providers to update them. This is done trough so-called OTA messages, … [Read more…]
Niels ten Oever of Free Press Unlimited introduce the StoryMaker Android app. StoryMaker provides an editing suite for citizen journalists as well as lessons about storytelling and security. To get a better idea of what StoryMaker is watch the video below. Niels: “I am not going to give the standard product placement pitch here. Instead … [Read more…]
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Bits of Freedom was relaunched at HAR2009 four years ago. This morning the Dutch digital rights organization presented what has happened in the last four years. In 2009 the sense of urgency was high: the data retention law was being implemented, biometric fingerprints in passports were to be introduced and stored in a centralized database, … [Read more…]
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