Chaos Communication Congress
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The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual meeting of the international hacker scene, organized by the Chaos Computer Club. The congress features a variety of lectures and workshops on technical and political issues. The event takes place regularly at the end of the year since 1984, with the current date and duration (December 27–30) established in 2005.
The congress started out in 1984 in Hamburg, moved to Berlin in 1998, and back to Hamburg in 2012, having exceeded the capacity of the Berlin venue with more than 4500 attendees. Since then, the meetings in the considerably larger venue in Hamburg continue to attract an increasing number of people, around 6,600 attendees in 2012 and most recently more than 10,000 in 2014.
A large range of speakers are part of the scene. Organizational work is done by volunteers called Chaos Angels. The non-members entry fee for four days has been 100 Euros since 2014.
An important part of the congress are the assemblies, semi-open spaces with clusters of tables and internet connections for groups and individuals to collaborate and socialize in projects, workshops, and hands-on talks. These assembly spaces, introduced at the 2012 meeting, combine the hack center project space and distributed group spaces of former years.[1]
From 1997 to 2004 the congress also hosted the annual German Lockpicking Championships. 2005 was the first year the Congress lasted four days instead of three and lacked the German Lockpicking Championships.
Congresses
Starting with the 16th congress in 1999, congresses are abbreviated C3 and prefixed with the congress number (e.g. 30C3 for the 30th congress). Most have been subtitled with a motto reflecting the zeitgeist and congress topics.
No. | Year | Motto | short | venue place |
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1 | 1984 | CCC'84 nach Orion'64 | Eidelstedter Bürgerhaus in Hamburg, Germany | |
2 | 1985 | Du Darfst | ||
3 | 1986 | Damit Sie auch morgen noch kraftvoll zubyten können | ||
4 | 1987 | Offene Netze – Jetzt! | ||
5 | 1988 | ich glaub' es hackt | ||
6 | 1989 | Offene Grenzen: Cocomed zuhauf | ||
7 | 1990 | (no motto) | ||
8 | 1991 | Per Anhalter durch die Netze | ||
9 | 1992 | Es liegt was in der Luft | ||
10 | 1993 | Ten years after Orwell | ||
11 | 1994 | Internet im Kinderzimmer – Big business is watching you?! | Bikini-Haus in Berlin, Germany | |
12 | 1995 | Pretty Good Piracy – verdaten und verkauft | Eidelstedter Bürgerhaus in Hamburg, Germany | |
13 | 1996 | Der futurologische Congress – Leben nach der Internetdepression | ||
14 | 1997 | Nichts ist wahr. Alles ist erlaubt. | ||
15 | 1998 | All Rights Reversed | Haus am Köllnischen Park in Berlin, Germany | |
16 | 1999 | (no motto) | 16C3 | |
17 | 2000 | Explicit Lyrics | 17C3 | |
18 | 2001 | Hacking Is Not A Crime | 18C3 | |
19 | 2002 | Out Of Order | 19C3 | |
20 | 2003 | Not A Number | 20C3 NaN | Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany[2] |
21 | 2004 | The Usual Suspects | 21C3 | |
22 | 2005 | Private Investigations | 22C3 | |
23 | 2006 | Who can you trust? | 23C3 | |
24 | 2007 | Volldampf voraus! | 24C3 | |
25 | 2008 | Nothing To Hide! | 25C3 | |
26 | 2009 | Here Be Dragons | 26C3 | |
27 | 2010 | We come in peace | 27C3 | |
28 | 2011 | Behind enemy lines | 28C3 | |
29 | 2012 | Not my department | 29C3 | Congress Center Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany |
30 | 2013 | (no motto) | 30C3 | |
31 | 2014 | A New Dawn | 31C3 |
Gallery
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Glenn Greenwald gives his Keynote at 30C3
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„Seidenstraße” (Silk Road), a Pneumatic tube system introduced at 30C3
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Assemblies and the Pneumatic tube system at 30C3
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Jacob Appelbaum and Sarah Harrison appear together with Julian Assange for an appeal at 30C3
See also
References
- ↑ Assemblies at 29C3
- ↑ "Welcome - 27C3 public wiki". Events.ccc.de. 2010-12-21. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
External links
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