Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Quite how I ended up in a marquee an hour north of Berlin being sketched, stark b*****k naked, by some of the world’s leading digital activists and hackers is not entirely clear. There was a party at a London embassy, a drunken promise to help with an art project at “hacker Glastonbury”, and now, somehow, here I am, providing a little light entertainment before the campers get back to the important business of fighting the National Security Agency and teaching robots to mix cocktails. At the Chaos Communication Camp – the international hacking festival held in Germany every four years – almost anything can and indeed does happen. Organised by the Chaos Computer Club, the influential German hacker association founded in 1981, it has everything you might expect from a “normal” festival. Fantastical decorations, solicitous drug dealers and ear-splitting music abound. It’s the inter-tent Ethernet cables, low-flying drones, and workshops that cover everything from reverse-engineering sex toys, to hacking cars, to learning how to turn your own skull into a sound system that, by comparison, place all other parties somewhere in the Dark Ages. Preparing for CCC was a nerve-racking affair. “Assume that there will be many people at the […]
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