28c3 Day 1
It’s c3 time, this year 28c3 with the motto behind enemy lines and honestly this motto is a bit unfitting after the last we come in peace. Or do we want to suggest that we are the evil invaders from space telling the backward residents of planet Earth we come in peace, but conquer anyway? I for myself as little cash desk angel, I still come in peace.
Besides that the congress started smoothly as ever with all the well known bugs behind the scenes that have a certain tradition and which are needed for a working congress anyway 
But even the cash desk was opened in time at Day Zero at 20 hours CET nothing to whine about really! There are some glitches in the cash system, nothing that can’t get a hotfix.
Day 1 started with the opening lecture by Evgeny Morozov Marriage From Hell: On the Secret Love Affair Between Dictators and Western Technology Companies (Abstract, Recording) followed by the talk of Anne Roth Sachsen dreht frei (Abstract, Recording), two interesting political talks the first for the international scope and the second for the local scope.
Usually we talk about these things in a very abstract way when we are talking about evil states somewhere in the world but with Saxony we have a real example right in the middle of the republic.
Two talks followed by my first cash shift. As I said there are some glitches in the system which require a hotfix or a sudo but which can usually be solved within minutes and don’t spoil the fun. I was a bit surprised in which speed the cash shifts were filled in the Angel-System leaving me with the opportunity for some chilled-out evening shifts 
In the late afternoon the next round of talks opened by Almighty DNA? by Lisa Thalheim and Uta Wagenmann (Abstract, Recording), Does Hacktivism Matter? by Kai Denker (Abstract, Recording) and after the lunch break Cory Doctorow with The coming war on general computation (Abstract, Recording).
Three talks, three different topics. The first about the rely-ability of DNA traces and the associated data retention and surveillance issues. The second about the historical impact of the BTX Hack (Wikipedia DE) and its traces in German law. The third a very interesting talk (no slideshow!) about why the War on Copyright was just the first battle of the upcoming war.
There is a GSM network running at the congress and I actually found a spare phone this year, so you can reach me at the 94321 during the congress from the internal network.
And now off to Day 2 at the bcc…
Edit (Jan 03 2012) In the mean time, actually already during the congress, somebody explained why that motto was chosen… well ok I can understand the why, though I still think the order of the mottoes during the last years is a bit unlucky now
