 A hacker spaceship stranded in our solar system many years ago. To make contact with different cultures and life forms, they sent a little rocket to Earth. Magic spreads like fairy dust wherever it is. To promote knowledge and freedom of information, it travels to every gathering organized by Europe's largest hacker association, the Chaos Computer Club. At these meetings, a multitude of communities, nerds, hackers, makers, activists, and other galactical life forms get together to exchange perspectives on technology, society, and utopian ideas. Would you like to fly with this diverse and contradictory swarm? I film Gizmo. You have registered successfully. To get along at the Chaos events, you have to accept some basic rules. Be excellent to each other. Before taking photos of filming, ask everybody in the picture if they agree. Okay. Now, start a new game and enter the digital realm. New game? Let's go. Explore your skill set. As the filmmaker, you are the master over time and space. To understand the future, travel back to the past and find your own beginning. Check into your time machine. You will discover places you have never been to before. Can you take a look at what's in there? A zombie. The Chaos operator speaking. Discover new possibilities and change your perspective to meet your first challenge. Start by hacking your mind. The future is up to you. The internet is a technology, it's an international or worldwide and exciting data network where only packages are sent. That's nothing. If I send a cable from point A to point B, it has no effect on society at all. Only when we start using these things as human beings, we give the whole thing a meaning. I think that's one of the tasks for the future. We start to find the internet again and again to talk about how to stay a free space in which society can unfold. And maybe a space where we can find social benefits for all of us. There will be an introduction meeting for new angels after the angel meeting. We'll tell you how to survive in all this ecosystem. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. That's a little less. We need more people there. We have a situation with parking lots, gates, big tents. So we have the requirement of around 60 angels 24-7 in addition to all the audio and video and all the other shifts. So it's very important that you try to fill these shifts because we really, really need your help there. This night we already ran out of angels and that should not happen. Hello. Sir, we do like first aid and a little bit of fire service here at the camp. You can call us 24-7, we are there. If you contact local fire department, they don't know where Giraffel Village is. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. We are very happy to be able to work together as a collective. This possibility of communication with a lot of people who are going to pull each other apart until something new is born and new things are created and new things are developed. That's the beauty of the Internet, that's the beauty of what's happening here. Very well, film Gizmo. You learned the basic principle of hacking. Congratulations, you have found heaven on earth. Please climb into your time machine. The next task is waiting for you. We're going to show you guys how to send a capsule over a zygote. Choose your destination. Let's just put it to metalab. And then there's two things. So we need the pushing one. We put it in both on the capsule go. There's a pressure in the scene that just wants to channel itself. And it just showed that the congress was a wonderful vehicle. It was a free-room boat for crazy ideas and just offered itself as a platform to network, as a platform, to follow crazy ideas. And it just showed us that it was a wonderful vehicle. And it just showed us that it was a wonderful vehicle. It just showed us that it was a wonderful vehicle. It just showed us that it was a wonderful vehicle. We put on the lens of the ship and it was giving us the opportunity to follow crazy ideas and simply in a political, sociable and technical way. Until today the congress and of course the camps are such as collecting of all these cultural currents. It's not just about technology. And there are many other nerds who don't have anything to do with technology, who used to be completely alone with their niche interest and now click on a mouse and can easily meet and exchange their experience there. And the Congress as a real world image, this concept from the Internet, is of course also for people with interests that are not only computer security, but also a real goldgrub, first of all with other people who don't have the same interests, but have the same mindset. The same approach to research, of course, they also feel comfortable here and we also want to have them, because only through this cultural exchange, through this fear, we also have the opportunity to further develop and create social relevance. We wanted to be free in ourselves and our pseudo anonymity and to fight for what's right and what's wrong. And we're already born for it. That is fantastic. This dragon, this dragon, you call it free software? Galaxy? Yeah. That's what it looks like for Dragon. But provide service. Hacker seeks space. Hacker seeks hacker. Hacker seeks web designer. Hacker seeks hardware. Human day changes. Hacker seeks software. Hacker seeks hacker. Hacker seeks hackers in their region. Hacker seeks t-shirt. Hacker seeks cryptocurrency. Assembly seeks resources. Free stickers. Engineer seeks hacker. Refugee seeks workers. Hacker seeks information. Password hash seeks computing power. Train ticket seeks user. Human refugee seeks worker. Boy seeks kernel. Boy seeks penia. Boy seeks girl. Boy seeks an F couple. Girl seeks boy. Girl seeks girl. In 1981, the group of five German computer experts and political activists called for a meeting of computer freaks at the offices of the leftist TATS newspaper in Berlin. The 20 people that attend formulate a first-position paper already touching subjects that now seem naturally relevant. Communication with computers. Data protection. Data retention. Surveillance. And digital copyright. In retrospect, this meeting is considered as the unofficial birth of the Chaos Computer Club. In 1983, the club makes its first public statement, already defining itself as a galactic community of life-forms independent of age, sex, race, descent, and social standing, which strives across borders for freedom of information and deals with the impact of technologies on society and individuals. The world has changed a lot since then. The creative critical use of computers is not only an issue for few specialists anymore. With the increasing interdependence of technology and society, the perspective on what hackers can and should do becomes gradually differentiated. Completely neutral conversations about computer technology are no longer possible without reference to the reality of the lives of most people. They say they want to know how the world works. How technical experts have to know how things are going on. But it's always the other way around. And we recommend everyone to come to Engelt and not only because of their contacts but because they also learn how the spirit works. We're talking about 12,000 visitors and I've calculated how many full-time powers would be needed to complete the Engelt work. I'm roughly at 500. There are so many because we're preparing for a 24-7 operation. If you buy them, the ticket prices won't be possible. That's one story. We can make it so cheap that we don't have to buy any helpers from far away. That would be the question, where do you get 500 helpers over the holidays? I don't know where you can get them and what it would cost. And on the other hand, the people who are building this up are of course having fun. It's a huge motivation and mentality and a difference in mood compared to buying a person for money. Can you show us how to make Engelt? Yes, you can filter to trees and Engelt-types and task-types and if you want to get some help. You choose the time frame and at the end you click filter and then you get a big list of things that still have to be done or done. If I had gone to video training I would probably be here as a video mixer. But I'm afraid I'll have to get an introduction. So, we here at the 32C3 we care really a lot about the resilience of our technical infrastructures but pretty much in the same way we also don't want our political infrastructures that we depend on to be broken. I think you can say that an internet regulation on a national level is very close to being broken. But with this support and the data-protector it's really good. It's about to get much more dramatic because technology today is much more powerful than it's ever been. Our freedoms are cut back more and more. I mean it is becoming kind of obvious that the climate is not right anymore and we look at what has happened to democracy in the western societies it is on the way out. The security state is making large progress. Future generations will look at us as the guilty party. We are the people in their eyes and eyes of our children we and our parents we are the people who basically fucked up the planet. So there is no real way to escape this reality anymore. And when we talk about the dystopian environment also techno-optimism is a problem in our circles. Many people think well we screwed up this planet maybe but we have spacecraft we can go to other planets, there's other worlds that doesn't work. There are no habitable planets in our reach and there won't be for generations to come so no matter how bad things may get on earth they're still not going to be anywhere near as inhospitable as a bad day as they will be on Mars on the best possible day. See that's a positive message. I mean the core of the hacker culture is breaking stuff, fixing things and this planet if we can say so is our spaceship and it really needs fixing and so this is something where we see that the hacker community or hacking community can do much more. I don't think it's working properly, we need to change the world there's not much going on here. We have a lot of people here who would like to use utopia or the entire art community that we can integrate here who often have a vision about the future, the future it's very different. There are many ideals that don't fit together with the economic order. We also have a lot of conflicts with the networks because they work in commercial principles but not always technically. The network structure is also very developed by initiatives that are not profitable. The project management is preparing a big platform and the people come and bring their projects and ideas with them. Whether it's that they help here to build and operate the thing whether they bring their personal programs like Robata, Loet projects or Blinken, whether they contribute to the interesting topics or to the social ones. It brings everyone together to create this congress and that's the commitment that this event creates. There are very few people who just come and look at everything and record themselves, of course but the whole thing lives through this platform idea and on this platform and that's an idea that is made. People just come and take a look. We have an appointment in the wiki and then we take the list and look at each other and think about who has special requirements. Some people need bright light and some people want a neat corner and they place them roughly in the direction and it's not a strict hierarchy and that makes it look like a charm. We have a lot of chaos and mantis this year so we had about 150 requests which represent 220 people. We are talking about the next step which is the contact protection but this time in combination with our next customer, a secret service. We are talking about the next step which is we still do not have a massive lower-protection system in Germany. tomorrow, the so-called young hacker day. You have to let things be quite different. It started with 4,500 people, 12,000 people had to be scattered without the serious incident. Over the last few years, there were quite a lot of people who had to be called a community. I think it's amazing, this unique community that they visit. People who want to design, who want to solve creative tasks. That can be big problems, that can be small, that can also be no problem, and just funny things. And this will to design and the will to share not only the work, but also the results. That's what I think has a defining moment here. And this consciousness that can only be created in this computer field, that something is shared and not less, but more. Great. You decrypted the social code. You found out that sharing something can make more out of it. You discovered the difference engine. Now take a shortcut and hop on the train. The idea is to have a data network where you can exchange data where you can communicate freely where you have a certain anonymization through this internet. On the other hand, we see that there are companies that collect data and evaluate them. And that's almost where we work. It's not like we find the internet great and take it as it is, but our idea is that we maybe want to talk about how the internet has to look like the future and how the internet has to be so that it can be more valuable for us. You are now ready to dive into the dynamics of the networks. Try to see the bigger picture. There are separations. We are all so close together as never before. And that's the reason that we can solve each other's problems. That we can interact in a dialogue. And that's the true power of this technology. The world, how it's organized, how it's structured, it has to be reinvented. If we put smaller goals than that, then it won't work. Then something will go on the wall and we were only too stupid to change that. It was a natural law that prevented us from doing it. But it was just an unwillingness or wrong priorities. We are too busy with ourselves to see that things are happening around us that we need. Lots of rainbow flags in Massachusetts. You have the non-point free flag. This is facing the correct way, yes. Nothing here is facing the correct way. Welcome to camp. We just accidentally created a new motto for camp, keep promises instead of keeping things and breaking promises. The web is fragile, it's unreliable, it doesn't work terribly well. It's encouraging that it's there but we can do so much better and people are thinking about how you can bring up new different ways to lock the web open. Can we make it so that openness is irrevocable? Can we make it so that the freedom of the press is in the code itself so it can't be taken away from us by a company or a government that just decides to turn it off that it continues to work. These ideas are bouncing around here and developing. There's no better place than walking the alleys here with these paths at midnight or 2 a.m. and it's just got an energy level of optimism. Technology can be changed and shaped to serve our society better. These aren't just IT staffs that are just doing clocking in day in, day out. People that have a social purpose of making the world better through their technology. They start on the floor that leads to their workplace. After two breaths, they simply go back to their desk. There, regular apps are sitting, 18 o'clock and generated facebook signs for products that nobody wanted to have. Mostly, it took longer. There was a lot to do. Before, behind the right and left your colleagues, your pictures, as they are always with you. The internet is just a medium. Just as we talk, how we talk, what we do with it. It's the person who decides. It's always the person who uses it. I think everybody codes differently and everybody has different challenges in their mind, different perspectives. I think in order to use technology for different kind of needs and interests, we need different people. It was a long night. The nodes in your network are moving closer together. Now explore the source code of the community. But be careful. Assistant is not stable yet. It's not safe to travel. I'll try it anyway. You've unclogged it. And plugged it in again. That's not a bad idea. But you cannot solve the problem completely on your own. Don't forget, you're at the Hacker Congress. This is something new. We always want to experiment with it. We always want to drive to the extreme. There's always this dream of perfection that you never achieve. But the stripping of perfection as such is a highly appreciated tool. It's all about researching, inquisitive, questioning, doubting the skeptical attitude of the world and that shows itself everywhere. You want to do better. It's always brilliant and great. But my friend told me 300% stripping and 150% working. And that sometimes happens. I have a hand for the network. Let's call it a lemming and make it beautiful. It will fall. We can give it wings. Have you ever done something like this? You probably don't need me there. It's not that complicated. I think the future needs innovation. Innovation has a lot to do with trying things out and making mistakes, for example, and getting closer to something else from these mistakes. That's a ability that will never be achieved in the school system today. You are punished just to do everything right. And here, that's the opposite of that. It's easy because the spirit of the hacker is somehow appropriate. You try to understand what a black box is and when you try to understand it you often have to make mistakes or you can't keep going. That's such an important competence to lose this respect, the fear to take the fear to take what you can only consume and what you can't shape yourself. That's right. Hacker codex. Technology should serve people and not be needed. To understand something, we take it apart. Access to computers and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the hands-on imperative. All information should be free. Mistrust authority. Promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees age, race or position. You can create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better. The last two points are additions by the CCC from the 80s. Don't litter other people's data. Make public data available. Protect private data. These extra paragraphs still seem particularly relevant in 2018. But hacking is not a normative ethics. There are a few advice that are not very specific but rather communicate a framework of values. It's not like every day people ask about hacking but when you come to a point where you are intensively talking about a technical effect you quickly get back to the basics. Unfortunately, not all of you care about hacking. For example, secret services. They do it differently. They use private data and public data. In this case, data about the secret service that you could maybe control. They are protected very well. In the beginning, there were only a few small units that wanted to talk to each other. They didn't care much about the secret service. After that, they always put all of this information on it. In the beginning, it wasn't like that. You just wrote the password in the clear text. And you wouldn't send private information by postcard. But we do that all the time with unprotected emails. These data that are collected many think that they have it under control. They make a picture and upload it and that's the data that they have in mind. But in reality, so many more data are collected that are converted to mechanisms that don't look like a normal techie. How it is interpreted and what it is analysed. It's decided by others. And maybe only for ten years. And that's what it looks like. Models, behavior, characteristic characteristics that are formed. And with this information, with this model that is created, you can influence on individual people. It's not what you feel. It's rather a subtle manipulation. Here you can see a lot of people and they know each other with technical things. Do you also have a Facebook account? A Facebook... Facebook was sold to me. From whom? From Man with Master. Why? Why? Facebook wants to ban me. And if I want to do something that I don't have, I'm anti-capitalist, I can't buy anything. I don't have pocket money. I live from air and love. I don't need air anymore. The mass research of data is, I think, the biggest problem which is to solve it first. And I think you can say that we as NERDS in the last 10, 20 years have failed in a way that we didn't want to have the truth that people maybe don't want to know how a computer works. That people maybe don't want to know how an e-mail works. That people maybe don't even ask themselves whether it's solved or not. There was a long time when we had deep connections and that it's not a long connection and you didn't verify the fingerprint yourself over 22 independent channels then you don't even need to start and so on. But I mean, people have the right, but we probably couldn't win the majority for us. And I think many representatives of the Chaos Computer Club were very learned and you can see that today systems that make easier cuts due to the usability have huge success and which is now happily worked out in the last years is at least a kind of connection that follows. Film Gizmo, finally you are starting to see the ties between technology and society. You now know everything relates to everything else. But that's still only a part of the whole. Now get back to the camp. The weather is changing. Operator speaking. Hello, I'm stuck again. Well, I can send you through to the next level, but the evolution of your skills is inevitable and urgent. I'll try. Operator speaking. Now we will see when was the 30th of July, afternoon, with the national parade. We did and were first the national parade. But, okay. And then we looked what was on the national parade. Especially we did not know that it can be used against us, because with the national parade we have to have a proposal to the Republic of Germany to be massive or something. And the most important thing is what we have reported. And then we have mass surveillance on the Internet, a core issue of the Internet politics, a core issue of the CCC, that we have been reporting for years and will continue to report. And we are the attention of a different mass surveillance, like the NSA or BND and partly also the BFV that is not compatible with free democratic societies. So get away with it. Exactly. And we have to do it with a lot of effort to maintain democracy and to prevent mass surveillance. That is why never give up. Thank you very much. And it is not just us who do not want to have any help. You should participate. We all need you for that. To get out more, we need to the mainstream of society. Alexander I. He has left the field for what? For high-tech, for everything that is not shitty. It is naive belief that if the scandal is big enough the system will finally correct itself. What we see is the opposite. We see a scandal of the magnitude of Watergate every week or every two weeks and nothing is happening. Terrorism is now the main reason why we need to be discarding basic civil rights. But many more people died of terrorism in the 1960s and 70s. But nobody spoke about discarding basic civil rights. Because in that time it was seen as ridiculous for the East German state to want to know who sent mail to who or to open all these envelopes. That was seen as typical things that only a police state would ever contemplate on doing. All of these things are being implemented now. Why? Because it's cheap enough. This was all cost-driven, not danger-driven. We have mechanisms for discourse in society. And those mechanisms are deliberately sabotaged by lobbying, advertising, sock-ploppeting. There's a lot of thinking that rejects a common truth or rejects a common reality that we live in. We need some kind of a rationality movement. We need some kind of a movement to say, look, we can disagree on policy, we can disagree on a lot of things but let's not disagree on facts. The world today is uniquely connected and complicated so any solutions are going to be complex. So complexity is the new norm. Film Gizmo, you made it through the turbulences. Receive your upgrade and make sure you don't lose your civil rights. Get prepared for the unavoidable complexity. Maybe you cannot do this alone. It's important to understand that being angry or unhappy right now for prolonged periods is a recognized medical condition. Lots of people five or ten percent of the population in some countries are on antidepressants. These are the people that cannot function. They basically do not want to go to work. Are we not? And this is an open question. Are we suppressing a critical mass? Any day that is not a day of camp or congress or another chaos event leaves something to be desired. I guess most of us will agree on that. But the last 12 months provided us with even more reasons to be subdued and to yearn for another world. For a few days we will now have that. We can live another life in another world. We can do what we love and share all this with like-minded people which is great. All those problems and there are many big and small can easily make us feel helpless. How can a single person change anything at all? Well, there's one good message. Just take a moment and look around you. There are 3,000 people in this room alone and there will be 12,000 people at congress which is amazing. It is up to us not to stay in the gated communities that evolved and transport what we do here in congress and what we start here to the outside world. We cannot hide under a cozy blanket and wait until the world magically gets better again. You can move and act together. You don't have to travel alone. Numbers unnumbered. There's no matter here but everything matters. We emerge from the shadows. We go to the shadows. Don't try to trick us. We have half the boundary. Our answers not one and also not two in a row. I don't understand that a tsunami hits us and the world changes. We change the world. It is important that we shape these changes as a whole and have particular interests that have a certain power that can be shaped and then run after it. Because power has shifted to big corporations and to shady alliances of political and industrial forces born together which sounds very much like a definition of fascism. Sorry about that. It will not be about taking a parliament and burning it down. It's going to be different. I'm not sure we're going to win on this one. There is no game. There is no other word. There are directions we take. Use of different skills. Each of you. Brute force is not the key to solutions. Neither is hatred or egoism or uniformity as they produce further standstill. The standstill has to be broken to shape our common journey as our common task. Allity and virtual worlds are increasingly blending. Digital technologies offer opportunities for the democratization of changing patterns of interaction. On the other hand this potential meets a fully capitalized society in which multinational corporations adapt neuronal patterns and become artificial intelligences themselves. This results in an information economy with police state tendencies. Everyone can do something but is structurally decoupled from the basic decisions. Not less technology is needed but rather a social infrastructure that builds on and reflects on it. If one's own situation can only be improved through solidarity change can happen. Light and darkness are unhappy. There are a lot of unhappy people but it's never a state condition because permanent preferences and the real complexity are more complex than a small board with blue and yellow with two preferences like or dislike. There are a lot of solutions that we can't use yet but maybe it was the part with which we had to deal with the other bands because they might have used the same password. So that all bands can connect and then solve the game. We live here in our own glass and I say to the people just come back to the ground because 90% of the internet users are people who want to surf at home and they can't distinguish if the DNS server doesn't work or if the provider is broken they can't distinguish if the server is slow or if the line is thin they don't see it at all and they have to look at the internet from their point of view they just want to have their screen time they want to have their Yahoo they want to have their Google and the question is, can I get there and they say, we do it all better? No, these people belong to the internet like the power user like the power user like everyone who uses the internet the internet is a transport medium and everyone can use it like this when I use all the same things then I have to accept that these users exist maybe one or the other in a certain direction but the user the user should be able to use it creatively the medium, we make sure that the medium works we fight for it, that it stays neutral that no one is prevented or that you do something like this we don't want to have it we don't care if the internet doesn't work we call it China, Iran, Iraq or whatever we put this country here we just have to be careful because this is censorship we don't want to have it, we want to keep it and we will try to get it that it always stays that way how the user is using it we don't want to interfere this is neutrality not only to continue these programs to expand them we've learned a lot in the last few years but perhaps the most important thing and what I think we need to all be considering is what can we do mass surveillance is what I set out to let people know about how we can contest it but the thing is, all I could do is tell you what's going on if we're going to make the internet safer if we're going to make our societies more free the generations that come after us are going to enjoy the same rights that we ourselves inherited that people died for we're going to have to do something about it maybe that's writing code maybe that's creating a tool maybe that's starting a new service or maybe that's recognizing that sometimes you have to say no or vote a different way if we want things to get better you're going to have to stand for something story must have a happy end if you want to get large groups of people to change and this is bullshit with that message is that you create a disconnect between the reality that people can see a reality where outcomes are gradually getting worse in some fields and the world that they're told to believe in let's not fall for this kind of messaging we need to look at the bigger picture and this is essentially the problem that we need to solve as a community, as a culture and not to fight all little wars among each other but programming language is the best so these are meaningless fights this is nothing worth spending your energy on difficult times people will come together a sense of belonging to a community like the one we have but other communities as well is going to become more important there's great happiness and a sense of purpose to be found in caring for your friends sharing knowledge and experience especially if things get a little bit hairy and even if we end up in a bad possible future it's a post-apocalyptically appropriate way of thinking if the world went down in chaos I would really want it to happen somewhere at the end of December because you all would be the people I would want to be around we see here a mosaic of people and skills and communities and this is what makes us so strong and give us all this inspiration to create and to build and to hopefully fix things Hi, I'm looking for Starbucks I'm looking for a model My name is Wally I'm looking for a model My name is Terry I'm looking for models There's always this saying normal people but people aren't normal and I think that's great how your creatures welcome that's something that autists are also talking about that was a thing that I could do in the sky and do a springing layer that would be no problem if I wanted to do that I would be a football player and here it's no problem that's great I'm really sad that I have to go back into this weird, normal world and I can't stay here any longer because it's so much fun With the large number of people the same percentage of people help the growth is proportional unbelievable I think it's a privilege because I don't have any other possibility to live in our normal society that we have a different motivation out of money I think it's totally attractive The idealism drives us that there is a better world than the ones we currently live that we don't fall into society but rather watch where we can support others because ultimately you don't profit as a single person but as a society that also prepares to change and let other people participate and they don't want to join the community Oh, that's quite weird Come into the corridor, this is the corridor where the bikini bar is You can go to Hamburg Yes, but I mean I wanted to ask we're looking for the bikini bar we have to leave the site Come into the corridor we just wanted to make sure that we have to leave the site That's good, then we'll do it Thank you Bye We end our most precious moments when we interact with each other It is about our intimacies it is about who we are when we are in full trust when we're in full confidence either alone or with others and this is when we are This is when we can experiment with ourselves with new ideas, new theories dressing or new notes on an instrument of music and this is what define us at the most profound level as who we are which in turn define our capacity to relate to connect to interact, to learn, to organize all this we need to save the world So if we let them take our intimacies and rob our ability to trust and our ability to be ourselves there is virtually no chance at all that we will counterbalance those injustices and imbalances of power we see in the world So it's not about computers anymore it's not about the internet it's not about technology it's about who we are as individuals and collectively when we connect it is gated or not interconnected or not and it's about the it's about the solidarities we build At this moment you feel safe and warm but everyone will spread out from here and the path ahead promises to be stormy you now know everything relates to everything else The puzzle of unavoidable complexity can only be countered with diversity and strategy Warmth comes out of chaos Remember this feeling To shape the future is everyone's task The game is on Very active on the internet What? The internet