Aside from the main robot exhibition in the museumquartier, there were also several seminar-style discussions on different topics related to robots and technology. There were three different panel discussions: Smartass reloaded? AI and the Future Role of Cybernetics Rest in Pieces? Cyberpunks, Cyborgs and the Complexities of Discourses The Policy of the Artificial: Strategies, Tendencies […]
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25C3 Arrival
December 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Germany, Hacker culture
I’ve arrived in Berlin at the 25th Chaos Computing Congress (25C3). I’ve only been here a couple hours, but so far it’s been really cool. Things I’ve seen: A little toy RC flying saucer with blinking LEDs and a tendency to crash into (or “attack”) passersby. A guy with a multimeter working on repairing a […]
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Remember I said hackers aren’t just the guys who steal your credit card number?
December 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Germany, Hacker culture, Technology
Well, sometimes, they are really 1337 elitist Cambridge hackers who figure out how it’s possible to steal your credit card number when you use it at the cash register. Then, occasionally, they go to German hacker conferences and explain how to do it. Hint for those of you playing along at home: it involves power […]
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Club-Mate: The drink of champions
December 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Germany, Hacker culture
One of the important elements of a subculture is its tendency to collectively select visible markers of membership in that culture: clothes, hairstyles, preferred products. Hackers as a culture are certainly not immune to this, but as a culture that prides itself on valuing accomplishment over image, the markers of membership in hacker culture tend […]
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DDDDDoS
December 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Germany, Hacker culture, Photos
Another historic first from 25C3, the first-ever (confirmed) Dual Dunkin’ Donuts Distributed Denial of Service (DDDDDoS) attack. Two Dunkin’ Donuts stores near the conference center in Alexanderplatz were simultaneously flashmobbed by hundreds of hackers, temporarily interrupting normal donut delivery. It would appear that the stores did not have adequate caching implemented, although local mirrors were […]
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