HOWTO: Discover a country you never planned seeing

02 03 2007

Step 1. Be bored at worked.
Step 2. Get attracted by a discount airline‘s commercial in your favorite online newspaper.
Step 3. Discover that flights to Bucharest are incredibly cheap and decide to go there for a weekend in April.
Step 4. This is the crucial step: Don’t pay attention while booking the flight and choose the wrong date for your return flight, so you end up booking 1,5 weeks in Romania.

Summary: Christian and me will go to Romania from April 20th until April 30th. Wish us luck/fun/whatever.

Sweetmorn, Chaos 61, 3173 YOLD


Summer Chaos

25 01 2007

The date and location for the Chaos Communication Camp 2007 have now been confirmed! Hope to see you all there!

Setting Orange, Chaos 25, 3173 YOLD


citizen428 vs 22C3

04 01 2006

22C3 is over since last Friday, but I needed some time to let everything sink in. Besides that I just came home from Germany this morning… Here’s a list of all the talks I saw:

Day 1:
Private Investigations
Understanding buffer overflow exploitations
Hacking CCTV
Hacking Data Retention
Bad TRIPs
We lost the war
VoIP Phreaking

Day 2:
AJAX Based Web Applications
Anonymous Data Broadcasting by Misuse of Satellite ISPs
Digital Identity and the Ghost in the Machine
Literarisches Code-Quartett

Day 3:
COMPLETE Hard Disk Encryption with FreeBSD
How to construct Utopia
The truth about Nanotechnology
Fnord Jahresrückblick
Hacker Jeoparday

Day 4:
A discussion about modern disk encryption systems

People:
berq, lippi and Manuel were really great company and we had a damn good time together! Thanks guys! :-) teemow also was at the congress, and once again we had some interesting conversations. I’ve also met some fellow Gentoo devs, but unfortunately we didn’t talk that much. Maybe next year we once again should try to organize a more formal get-together. I’ve also met some nice people to play Go with, and although I still suck at this game, I really enjoyed playing it.

Misc:
Get rich, because using busses for long-distance travel sucks, at least if you want to sleep. Luckily our hostel (CityStay Berlin Mitte) did great in that regard, and I only can recommend this place to anyone looking for a clean and cheap accomodation in Berlin.

Conclusion:
22C3 definitely was good fun. I’ve seen interesting talks, met a lot of nice people and generally had a good time. However, I found the overall quality of the lectures not that impressive and I tried to express this sentiments via the feedback forms…

Prickle-Prickle, Chaos 4, 3172 YOLD