#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 9)

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Collect It All: Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for Everyone

Talk by M.C. McGrath (Transparency Toolkit)

From the program:

Governments post reports and data about their operations. Journalists publish documents from whistleblowers. But there is a third type of open data that is often overlooked – the information people and companies post about themselves. People need jobs. Companies need to hire people. Secret prisons do not build themselves.
By making it feasible for anyone to collect public data online in bulk and exploring ways to effectively use this data for concrete objectives, we can build an independent, distributed system of accountability.

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#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 8)

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Predicting Crime in a Big Data World

Talk by Whitney Merrill

Extract from the program:

„Yearly, the world is inundated with news about government data collection programs. In addition to these programs, governments collect data from third party sources to gather information about individuals. This data in conjunction with machine learning aids governments in determining where crime will be committed and who has committed a crime. Could this data serve as a method by which governments predict whether or not the individual will commit a crime? This talk will examine the use of big data in the context of predictive policing. Specifically, how does the data collected inform suspicion about a particular individual? In the context of U.S. law, can big data alone establish reasonable suspicion or should it just factor into the totality of the circumstances? How do we mitigate the biases that might exist in large data sets?“

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#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 7)

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A New Kid on the Block
Conditions for a Successful Market Entry of Decentralized Social Networks

Talk by Katharina Nocun

Extract from the program:

The leading social networks are the powerful new gatekeepers of the digital age. Proprietary de facto standards of the dominant companies have lead to the emergence of virtual “information silos” that can barely communicate with one another. Has Diaspora really lost the war? Or is there still a chance to succeed?

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#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 6)

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Grundrechte gelten nicht im Weltall!

Szenische Lesung von anna, Constanze Kurz, cbass, Felix Betzin

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In den nunmehr Hunderte A4-Seiten füllenden Live-Protokollen des NSA-BND-Untersuchungsausschusses, die bei netzpolitik.org nachzulesen sind, verbergen sich interessante Antworten auf Fragen, die niemand gestellt hat, vorher unbekannte juristische „Theorien“ des BND und Perlen verlogener Rabulistik.

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#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 5)

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Media Coverage and the Public in the Surveillance Society:

Talk by Arne Hintz and Lina Dencik (University of Cardiff, Wales, GB)

Extracted from the program:

How have the media reported the Snowden revelations? Does the public care about surveillance, and how do people react? Do we need a ‚data justice‘ movement?

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#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 4)

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The possibility of an army

Talkperformance by Constantin Dullaart

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Using follower bombing as art performances, the artist Constant Dullaart continues the research into attention and identity as a commodity on social networks, and has recently created a large sum of custom created artificial Facebook identities.
Many websites offer an option to login in with Facebook credentials due to the strict controle of the service on the reliability and verification of the social medium. In a time where the open borders in Europe are under pressure, and Syrian identities are sold to people that long for a better future, virtual identity systems, and their reliability become a topical analogy.

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#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 3)

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Trust us and our business will expand!

Talkperformance by Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman

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The lecture outlines strategies by the „Artist against 419“ online community that uses open source intelligence to gather data and file reports about fraudulent websites. The lecture presents the artistic installation „Megacorp.“ (created by KairUs) that tries to visualize the global phenomenon of fake business websites.

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#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 2)

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Ten years after ‚We Lost The War‘

Talk by Frank Rieger & Rop Gonggrijp

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The talk „We Lost The War“ was presented at Congress ten years ago, causing quite a stir. It was a prediction of a dark future that did not sit well with many people, but unfortunately many predictions have come true meanwhile. This talk will try to address what comes next, as well as what the hacker community can do to make things better.

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#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 1)

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What does Big Brother see, while he is watching?

Talk by Simon Menner

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In the past years there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of state sponsored surveillance. But hardly any material can be accessed to support the general debate due to vaguely declared security concerns. So we are debating Big Brother with little knowledge about what he actually sees, while he is watching. Over the course of three years, I was able to research the archives left by East Germany’s Stasi to look for visual memories of this notorious surveillance system and more recently I was invited to spend some weeks looking at the archive by the Czechoslovak StB. Illustrating with images I have found during my research, I would like to address the question why this material is still relevant – even 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

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#NOlympia in Hamburg

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Am kommenden Sonntag werden in Hamburg Stimmen gezählt. Stimmen für oder gegen die Ausrichtung der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2024 in der Stadt.

Ich werde mit „NEIN“ stimmen – und hier kurz begründen, warum.

Sehr viele Argumente sind bereits zwischen BefürworterInnen und GegnerInnen ausgetauscht worden: Hohe vs. realistische Kosten, Chancen und Risiken für die Stadtentwicklung, IOC korrupt, Nachhaltigkeit vs. Gigantismus, Negativbeispiele Elbphilharmonie und BER.

Merkwürdig finde ich allerdings ein Argument der pro-Fraktion: Wenn wir das nicht hinkriegen, würden ansonsten nur noch Diktaturen bzw. undemokratische Staaten den Zuschlag erhalten. Die Konkurrenzstädte jedoch sind Rom, Paris, Budapest und L.A. – worauf zielt also das Argument?

Ich lehne die Bewerbung aus einem andern Grund ab: Sagen die HamburgerInnen am Sonntag „JA“ zur Bewerbung, werden wir in der Stadt 18 Monate Bewerbungshysterie haben. Niemand wird sich dann mehr dem medialen Dauerfeuer, den Aktionen, den Events, der aufgeregten Umtriebigkeit entziehen können, die während der Bewerbungsphase die Stadt für sich einnehmen werden.

Ich kann nur hoffen, dass dann die Bewerbung nicht erfolgreich sein wird.

Denn ich stelle mir vor, wie es dann die folgenden Jahre weiterginge: Ein 2000+ Tage währender Countdown hin zur Eröffnungsfeier im Sommer 2024 mit noch mehr Events, Aktionen, Umtriebigkeit, besinnungsloser Vorfreude – und vielen, vielen Baustellen. Ich sehe vorher, wie sich nach einer erfolgreichen Bewerbung alles in der Stadt diesem einen großen Ziel unterzuordnen hätte. Alles wäre darauf ausgerichtet, den kollektiven Olympia-Wahn zu bedienen – und das über sieben (7!) lange Jahre. Ich kann mir diese Totalität nicht als etwas Gutes vorstellen.

Ich hätte nichts gegen vier Wochen sportliches Großereignis im Jahr 2024 – aber ich sage „NEIN“, weil ich in den Jahren davor in einer anderen Stadt leben würde, die dann nicht mehr wirklich meine wäre.