38C3: Program of the Chaos Communication Congress announced

The Chaos Computer Club has finalized the program for the 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3). The "hacker congress" will once again take place from December 27 to 30 at the traditional Congress Center Hamburg (CCH).

A total of seven tracks will fill the lectures – 140 in number, which means a total of 6625 minutes of program, explains the CCC in the timetable announcement. The hacker collective's Halfnarp tool helped with the compilation. Interested parties were able to submit their preferences for the presentations, which made it possible to coordinate the timing.

38C3 framework

The opening ceremony will take place on December 27 at 10:30 am. It will be chaired by Felix Reda and Gabriele Bogk. This will be followed by the extensive Congress program and then on 30 December at 18:00 –, once again chaired by Reda and Bogk –, the Chaos Communication Congress will come to a worthy conclusion under the motto"Return to legal instructions".

"The timetable is version Alpha-0.1. Traditionally, there are still minor changes before and during the Congress," writes the CCC in the announcement. Anyone who has counted or even found the gaps in the program is right: there are to be some surprise talks that the organizers only want to announce shortly before the 38th incarnation of the Congress.

The "Illegal Instructions" Chaos Congress had been looking for talks at the end of September that could be submitted from the beginning of October. However, the organizers also mentioned "angeling" (working as a helper at 38C3) or participating in assemblies, workshops and providing feedback as helpful, as this is what the Congress is all about.

This year, the CCC has a political focus. In order to prevent Europe from sliding into fragmented and "unfriendly surveillance and repressive societies", political and legal efforts are becoming less and less effective and are also not sustainable. "Technical resistance to surveillance, surveying, data snorkeling and infiltration is one of the necessary components," explained the CCC in September. The 38C3 will therefore place a stronger focus on how "we can outwit anti-human technologies through illegal instructions".

(dmk)