Hello,
this years "Datenspuren" would like to see more visitors and lectures from our neighboring hackers in Czech Republic and Poland. To make communication easier, we are planning to have a special "English" track. We are looking forward to hear and see what's going on accross the border.
Please feel free to forward this e-mail to whoever might be interested. ;-)
Kind regards,
Martin (for the Chaos Computer Club Dresden)
Datenspuren 2015 ================
Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Sat+Sun October 24+25, 2015
Girls and boys, get up on your feet and make some noise, because hackers are in the house!
In June 2013, Edward Snowden came public with an intelligence affair, so extensive and intricate, that it went straight into the history books. Since that day, no day has passed without continuing intelligence scandals continuously filling print and online news.These affairs create a new awareness for our digital rights, which we once took for granted but now find fading away to mere symbols in an erosive atmosphere of clever policing in our shiny new digital world.
*Where* "everyone is suspicious" is a mantra, which leaks out from behind the closed doors of the security agencies. This violates the fundamental trust between citizens and the executive authorities, which is a key ingredient for democracies.
*Where* digitalisation makes every person transparent and privacy shall remain a state-owned privilege, we ask: how much secrecy does a democracy need and how much of it can we bear?
*Where* Big Data determines more and more of our everyday life and the vague promised advantages provided by of smart applications suffices to vilify perseverance on privacy rights as obsolete and reactionary, we need to discuss how much privacy to concede and who grants it.
Thus, Big Data requires a wholesome realignment of the relationship between people, state and economy. It also requires the digital vanguards that significantly further these developments in big corps' IT departments, at universities, in hackerspaces, or in the data centres of the services to rethink their responsibilities.
Therefore, the Chaos Computer Club Dresden (c3d2) invites you to submit proposals for technical, scientific, and artistic contributions to our event "Datenspuren 2015". Topics are, not exclusively: * Cryptowars back then and today * Usability of cryptography * Forms of digital self-defence * Computer safety and security * Opportunities and perils of smart devices * Making you own devices (Maker + Breaker Scene) * Free Software & Open Hardware * Hacking as sub- and anticulture * Information ethics and privacy * Arts and electronics Deadline for submissions 16th of August 2015 Format Abstract (max. 300 words) for a lecture, workshop, installation/ performance, track Submission of lectures and workshops with the conference system frab: https://frab.cccv.de/en/DS2015/cfp/session/new#new_user Contact and questions Organizing team: datenspuren@c3d2.de Mailing list: datenspuren@lists.c3d2.de
Information on acceptance/rejection of submissions will be given until 15th of September 2015.
The event Datenspuren is a non-commercial community event. As we neither ask for entrance nor participation fees, we cannot pay any royalties. However, subsidizing travel and overnight stay might be granted for limited exceptions if reasonably founded. Applications can be directed to the organization team.