Chaos Communication Congress

31C3 in Hamburg

Audience at the keynote of Glenn Greenwald at 30C3

The 22C3 in December 2005

The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club. The congress features a variety of lectures and workshops on technical and political issues related to Security, Cryptography, Privacy and online Freedom of Speech. 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. It is considered one of the largest events of this kind, alongside the DEF CON in Las Vegas.

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 13,000 in 2015.

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 90 Euros in 2015.

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
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) [why? 1]	30C3
31	2014	A New Dawn	31C3
32	2015	Gated Communities	32C3

1. In the opening talk of the 30C3 (2013), Tim Pritlove stated that there was no motto because everyone was speechless after what happened that year, that is the Snowden revelations.

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

• Chaos Communication Camp
• SIGINT
• DEF CON

References

1. Assemblies at 29C3
2. "Welcome - 27C3 public wiki". Events.ccc.de. 2010-12-21. Retrieved 2012-07-11.

External links

• Overview of Chaos Communication Congresses
• Blog for the Chaos Communication Congress (and other events)