#39C3 Power Cycles

The time “in between years” is busy, every time. Not to take this as an excuse, but an opportunity to rather dump my notes from #39C3 into here. It’s more than I typically blog on a average year.

• Day 1
  • My plan for the day had the following:Although I missed
  • All Sorted by Machines of Loving Grace? “AI”, Cybernetics, and Fascism and how to Intervene 11.00
  • Zentrum für Politische Schönheit: Ein Jahr Adenauer SRP+ und der Walter Lübcke Memorial Park 11.55
  • Developing New Medicines in the Age of AI and Personalized Medicine 13.50
  • „KI“, Digitalisierung und Longevity als Fix für ein kaputtes Gesundheitssystem? 16.00
  • In reality however I arrived late, met the Flying Objects Bunch immediately, had beers. No more lectures for the day. I mean, I could’ve made it for
  • Die Känguru-Rebellion: Digital Independence Day  19.00
  • but decided to have dinner instead. The talk was recorded and is available here:
    https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-die-kanguru-rebellion-digital-independence-day
  • Also: Marc-Uwe Kling and Linus Neumann announced a Digital Independence Day, #DiDit, that shall happen every first Sunday a month. Mark your calendar, dump a big tech product every first Sunday a month for the next year.
  • The one lesson learned on day 1 really is that it’s really advisable to arrive a day early.
• Day 2 was a lot better
  • Protecting the network data of one billion people: Breaking network crypto in popular Chinese mobile apps was not recorded and dealt with software in Chinese android app stores. Apparently, ~50% of apps in stores there roll their own crypto.
  • Following that, a friend recommended I go and meet Alex Thurow for A blast from the Y2K past… GRÜNSPAN (Rock & Metal) Am Spätverkauf, which I did quickly, before I headed to
  • Skynet Starter Kit: From Embodied AI Jailbreak to Remote Takeover of Humanoid Robots that had my attention over previous episodes on “Embodied AI”we ran on #LabsTalk. The team of Dark Navy managed to remote control a Unitree G1, over it’s Lora based wireless interface. Next on the same stage was
  • Cory Doctorow, who advocated for A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, and did so with great enthusiasm that really made me optimistic. The recording is highly recommended here: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
  • Live, Die, Repeat: The fight against data retention and boundless access to data 14.45
  • CCC-Jahresrückblick 16.45
  • Amtsgeheimnis raus, Datenhalde rein: was die Informationsfreiheit in Österreich bringt 19.15
  • The rest of the day was filled with conversations and beers.
• Day 3
  • Greenhouse Gas Emission Data: Public, difficult to access, and not always correct
    • Data about greenhouse gas emissions, both from countries and individual factories, is often publicly available. However, the data sources are often not as accessible and reliable as they should be. EU emission databases contain obvious flaws, and nobody wants to be responsible.
    • Hanno Böck did some research on climate gas emission reporting and identified issues with large plants and the data available through
  • Celestial navigation with very little math
    • Learn how to find your position using a sextant and a custom slide rule, almost no math required!
    • Trammell Hudson spent a lot of time on sea, giving him the time to think about the deep questions, like „Where are we?“
    • Better Sextant: (Picture of Alexander Gerst/NASA)Alexander Gerst using a Sextant
  • Supplements und Social Media – wenn der Online-Hype zur realen Gesundheitsgefahr wird
    • Prof. Dr. Christoph Wiedmer, Hochschule Anhalt
    • Nicht zuletzt durch die Werbung in den sozialen Medien werden in Deutschland immer mehr Nahrungsergänzungsmittel verkauft.
    • „Sponsored by Holy Energy“ und Case Studies von echten Influencern
    • Es gibt Zutaten, die reale, gesundheitliche Konsequenzen haben können, besonders hinsichtlich ihrer Dosierung, die nicht geregelt ist.
  • Gegenmacht – Best of Informationsfreiheit
  • ePA mit Bianca Kastl
  • AI Agent, AI Spy – by Meredith Whitaker President at Signal
  • Blackbox Palantir 20:30
  • 10 years of Dieselgate 21:45
• Tag 4
  • Asahi Linux – Porting Linux to Apple Silicon 11.00
  • Fossile Industrie liebt KI. – 12.50
  • We, the EU, and 1064 Danes decided to look into YouTube: A story about how the EU gave us a law, 1064 Danes gave us their YouTube histories, and reality gave us a headache – 13.50
  • And of course every years highlight “Security Nightmares” 14.30