 Hello and welcome. First to our international guests, it's been a tradition to make everything nice and right for you at the Congress and we plan to keep it that way. But today I want to talk about a very particular and very German thing. So bear with me, we are sorry, this is going to be in German, better luck next time. Welcome to the 34th Chaos Communication Congress. The CCC gave itself a lot of effort to make this 34th iteration of the Congress a great story. And the motto is Tuvat. And I'm here to try to bring you closer to this motto, why there is this. And for that I take a few numbers and a few symbols back, which are needed for the explanation. And I take Vau back. Vau, Vau, Holland, surely many of you don't know anymore, because Vau died in 2001. Vau is the founder, the old president, our Dr. Vau, the doger of information age, human phenomena. We don't like to be a person cult, but Vau is important to remember, for all of us. No one could bring the things to the point like Vau. Vau is missing, because Vau has always been an important corrective for us, our distribution of basic questions. And also our secret glass ball, because it somehow had this incredible gift to look into the future like no other. And that's why Vau is going to talk to us a few more times today. And again and again, and we start with the first number, 1999. 1999 was the first Chaos Communication Camp in Atlantzberg. For the club, a very important break in events and in the field of view, also a preface for what we see here in Leipzig today. And the symbol for that is the rocket. The symbol for our events, also a bit of our image of the future with our connection, but also with technology and individuality, is in the end a female rocket. So we want to break out of our normal rhythms and shoot through the universe with our peer group. And the rocket welcomes you for years on these events. We've all seen it before. And the first camp was precisely this break. And there's a little clip where Vau spoke on this camp. And then we have to listen in. Ah, the thing with the tone, if you're not talking about HDMI. Do you remember me? I remember in 1980, we were invited to Mainz at the OpenROF Festival. We had a garage as a place called Techno Shopping and there was a telephone connection with Acustic Coppola 300 Bit per second. Today we have the approximately 100,000-faceted connection capacity, but most of it is on the Internet. And the whole camp is self-organized. So I wouldn't have let that dream come true back then. And I said the Chaos Computer Club is 18 years old. Pre-year, 1981, 1999. And that's okay. I know the video, I've seen it a thousand times, but just recently I noticed a little detail. When he said the club is 18 years old and is now growing. And he is now in 1981. And then I realized that we have grown again. 2017, that's exactly 18 years ago, that he said that. And in this case it is certainly also a very interesting time to draw a little balance here. 1981. What does that mean? If you want to understand 1981 in Germany, you actually have to look a little further back. There were the 1968s. The attempt to break open a fully enlarged social system slowly from the inside. Which in the end is also failed. What I expressed at the end of the 70s in the German autumn and the decline of resistance in terror and madness. What also brought such a spiral in progress that is not good. But the result was again the attempt of the people who were still half-way clear-headed to try a new city of society and to choose a different approach. Do we remember? Taz was founded. The Greens were founded. The peace and ecology movement. Many things are suddenly structured, made new on the way to go on a different method than on this somewhat panicky attempt at the beginning. And that is such a moment that you have to make it clear in the 1980s and 1981. What is 1981 for us? Yes, the IWMPC came out. Sure. But what was more important was the further consequences of this social change. There was a meeting in Tunics where you think, nothing is doing well now. What was meant was to look for creativity in doing nothing, to go on in chaos and slowly get his thoughts sorted again. A few months later there was a Tuwad Congress that was set up against the settlement of occupied houses. It didn't go well either. And that was all of these movements that we all know. And then there was another movement, namely a few people who had already checked that with the computers. And then there was Tuwad TXC. You will have seen all of this now, I will not read it again. Nevertheless, this small period in which a small meeting was made that was made in fact, contains all the terms that are still in the discussion today. Whether it is the settlement, whether it is surveillance, whether it is a private holiday, all that is in it. And the group has found themselves together, and has spoken and drawn their conclusions. Full agreement was that the microcomputer is no longer a serious alternative to the mainframe computer, as much more the basis of today's not foreseeable application. 1981. It can be found that the approach to the new communication systems is extremely blue. It is not difficult to predict that in a few years from large companies, employees will be introduced, whose task will be to regularly turn the public database systems into valuable information, insights, insights through forks. Then it always comes as if you just switched on the day-to-day show. This 1981 is a bit of a mythical moment, rather a small break, a meeting, actually a nothing, where there was no such thing as the CCC. Because of course now it takes a certain incubation time, but the sameness was seen. And the next number is the symbol, the symbol image of a disliked society, 1984. And this is the year where the CCC showed its face for the first time, with another beautiful symbol, the knots in cable television, the knots in the system, and a bit of the resistance in the normal course of things, a beautiful picture. And it is also a bit of a decline in the screen, on which everyone is dying all the time. And in 1984, the CCC achieved a lot. The BTX hack shows that with media you can also go around in a creative way, that you can position topics in society that also have a lot of fun, that are just so entertaining. Pirate romance, of course, which expresses itself here in the Pest-Hörnchen, still also a pressure for modern media work that still exists until today. And it is also very important to create your own media, to create your own channels, in this case the data scroller, which photocopies the A4 paper, the best we had back then. But it was enough to get an incubation out that you also make a congress in 1984. The Chaos Communication Congress, 1984. Open networks, why? Everything was discussed there, and maybe there are a hundred or two hundred people, who knows exactly today, and were in their little microcosmos, and I don't think any of them would have just dared to dream on their own, which eventually comes out again at some point. And that brings us to the next number, which is this year. Surely a year to forget, in a certain sense, but certainly also a year that has released completely new energies. Now we are here and actually have a kind of version 5.0 beta in front of us. The fifth place switch, also the fifth time that the concept of the whole construction, the structure, the size, has changed again, and we will all have to deal with it somehow. Now we have loved our Hamburg very much, as did our Berlin before. And now we are in Leipzig. Why? Now, apart from the technical strengths of space and size and construction measures, we actually find it the ideal place in the current time. Always the place of the revolution, against a forced system that was also a bit out of time. And in a certain sense, today, again, something of a higher need for revolution. And especially if you somehow say, actually, rather than a wet washcloth in the face, it is important to stretch out your hand here and be present and to take the discussions here, to create alternatives, to make communications. The plates have to be flooded with ideas. The storm and drinking phase is with those who deal with grip kitties, much, much more intense. And you have to see how you can stretch it constructively. So what is more important to me at the club is to whisper from the game console. To reach that. And I'm happy that many young people are here on the one side. And on the other side, you can also see a whole series of grasshoppers here. So the generation from below to above is through. And, yeah. Constructive steering. From the game console to the wet washcloth. Nothing would, I think, make the congress better than what Vaugh said, because Vaugh always says the things so nicely. Yes. The congress has grown, but it has always remained loyal in a certain sense. And this balance between young and old is still there. And above all, there is also even more wide, cultural wide diversity in this congress. And we thought, what could be the symbol for this congress? And of course, it's the phase examiner. We all know him. Probably also Vaugh's old joke, because he has always run through the opponent with a phase examiner. And if someone has asked what he wants with this phase examiner, he just says, it can only be that I have to call. There's too much in there. But the phase examiner is also like the CCC and also like the congress. Because the phase examiner is a sensor and an actor in one. You can feel it with it, but you can also wave with it. And I think right now, where everything is turned into reality with your feet, you have to see that you feel and wave to just shine a new polar star in the sky. So what is the congress? The congress is your temporary autonomous zone. That's our time in which we are completely disconnected from which forces can always work together here and also have to work together. Take the truth, use the conversation, use the contact, collect ideas, channelize your anger and transform it into something creative, something productive, something special. Just something damn great. And let's not talk about something that can't be or can't be, or can't be anything. So only those who try can also have success. Here it goes. We just didn't reach a whole lot when I look back. And especially in the whole school and education sector, there's too much to do. When I think about it, that the children in England already in 1984 had computer lessons in the first grade, then it led to the fact that in 1999, those who are under 18 and use the internet, more than 50% are girls. That means like in the average society. Here in the last government period, or in the last 16 years, nothing has happened there. And I am committed in Thuringia, that at least the 10th to 12th grade, the students there, who trust the school, they take care of it, if something doesn't work, they get too much pressure from all those who don't get any mail, that goes right away. And at least that will be recognized as a performance expert informatics. These are the problems I deal with in 1999. And when I look at the club, there's a lot to be done. And there's the generation who now, from 14 years old, cuts in here and participates, who then trust the school, as one aspect, and try to bring certain ideas from below into the schools, into the society, so that it changes a little bit. That's my opinion. These are the problems with which he has to deal with in 1999. These are the problems with which we have to deal with in 2017. So there's still a lot to do. And a lot of this is also being done here. We live here diversity. Congress is just in the face of it, I think, on a very good path. And we also live here our fighting culture, but we also live here the consensus. Tolerance, openness, these are important factors, not just for Congress. Congress is utopia. And it is important that we continue to be 30 years ahead of our time. So in this case, do what, do what, say what, but also listen to it. Feel and change, come up with good ideas, share them, have fun with it, think about the next steps, even if the others are confused. If one can make a difference, then it is this enlightened, dynamic and always young scene. And the rocket is rising today on the new one. And we are flying with it. We have the rocket here, which is about to start again. And then it comes to turbulence. And these are the short notes for the rocket. Have fun with the turbulence. Have fun at the Chaos Communication Congress.