28c3 Day 2
Congress already halfway done – wow, but that also meant some nice talks, some chatting with all kinds of people, which was actually not that good judging from the sound of my voice today 
and the Feedback button on the events pages in the schedule.
After a slowish start at the Ball-Pool in the lounge of the bcc (big kids, a ball-pool, not a good way to get something done but ideal for some deep relaxing 
) my day started with the talk Don’t scan, just ask by Fabian Mihailowitsch (Abstract, Recording). I was a bit late to the talk, but what I heard of their method was interesting.
That talk was followed by two workshops about the Freedom Box and the Social Swarm project. I have mixed feelings about both of these workshops as I expected something else then what finally came out of the workshops. Maybe the second workshop from the social swarm people would have been more what I’ve expected, but that slot was already filled up and the first part couldn’t encourage me enough to change my mind 
As you may expect I’m interested a lot in making federation (or how ever you want to call it) broader available to get the masses off the monopolistic/centralized services we have right now; guess it’s mostly missed expectation fulfilling causing my mixed feelings. Really…
After that workshop marathon the next talk was How governments have tried to block Tor by Jacob Appelbaum and Roger Dingledine (Abstract, Recording). I really recommend you to watch this talk (once permanently online) even if you have nothing to hide as it sheds some light into the discussion I believe more normal people should be aware of.
The reason for not joining the second social swarm workshop was the talk by maha “Die Koalition setzt sich aber aktiv und ernsthaft dafür ein” (Abstract, Recording) which was, as it was in the previous years, a very nice linguistic analysis of the way politicians use the language, this time to place smoke bombs.
And the last talk, after a very relaxed cashdesk shift that we closed a bit early so that the night shift could take over, was 7 years, 400+ podcasts, and a whole lot of Frequent Flyer Miles by Bicyclemark (Abstract, Recording) who talked about the last seven years as citizen journalist and how is stories happen to happen sometimes.
