Great Talks and Presentations at 33C3

The Chaos Computer Congress is Europe’s leading hacker and tech community conference, taking place annualy in Hamburg, Germany between Christmas and New Year. This year was the 33rd time (hence 33C3), and as usual featured a large number of amazing talks and presentations.

My personal favorites

• Making Technology Inclusive Through Papercraft and Sound - Introducing the Love to Code Platform, by Bunnie Huang
• Dissecting modern (3G/4G) cellular modems - all the way to running apps directly on the modem’s Linux OS (Blog, Slides, HN)

Topics

• Technology
• Embedded / IoT
• Dieselgate
• Gaming
• Surveillance
• Space
• Hacking, Security & Exploits
• Politics, Society & World
• Lightning Talks

Tech

• Everything you always wanted to know about Certificate Transparency (but were afraid to ask)
• Deploying TLS 1.3: the great, the good and the bad Improving the encrypted the web, one round-trip at a time
• Hacking Reality - Mixed Reality and multi-sensory communication
• Virtual Secure Boot - Secure Boot support in qemu, kvm and ovmf
• A Data Point Walks Into a Bar - How cold data can make you feel things
• How physicists analyze massive data: LHC + brain + ROOT = Higgs
• Edible Soft Robotics - An exploration of candy as an engineered material
• 33C3 Infrastructure Review - The usual extremely factual look behind the scenes of this…
• Dissecting HDMI - Developing open, FPGA-based capture hardware for conference…
• Machine Dreams - Dreaming Machines

Embedded / IoT

• No USB? No problem. How to write an open source bit-bang low-speed USB stack
• How do we know our PRNGs work properly?
• Do as I Say not as I Do: Stealth Modification of Programmable Logic Controllers I/O by Pin Control Attack
• Wheel of Fortune - Analyzing Embedded OS Random Number Generators
• Bootstraping a slightly more secure laptop
• The Nibbletronic - A DIY MIDI Controller and a New UI for Wind Instruments
• Shining some light on the Amazon Dash button
• Building a high throughput low-latency PCIe based SDR - Lessons learnt implementing PCIe on FPGA for XTRX Software
• Decoding the LoRa PHY - Dissecting a Modern Wireless Network for the Internet of Things

Dieselgate

• Dieselgate – A year later
• Software Defined Emissions - A hacker’s review of Dieselgate

Gaming

• Nintendo Hacking 2016
• Console Hacking 2016 - PS4: PC Master Race
• The Ultimate Game Boy Talk

Surveillance

• Retail Surveillance / Retail Countersurveillance - 50 most unwanted retail surveillance technologies
• Rebel Cities - Towards A Global Network Of Neighbourhoods And Cities Rejecting Surveillance
• Understanding the Snooper’s Charter - Theresa May’s effort to abolish privacy

Space

• An Elevator to the Moon (and back)
• Interplanetary Colonization - the state at the beginning of the 21st Century
• Lasers in the sky (with asteroids)
• Eavesdropping on the Dark Cosmos - Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves

Hacking, Security & Exploits

• Hacking the World - The struggle for security for all
• Shut Up and Take My Money! - The Red Pill of N26 Security
• Intercoms Hacking - Call the frontdoor to install your backdoors
• What could possibly go wrong with <insert x86 instruction here>?
• How Do I Crack Satellite and Cable Pay TV?
• Reverse engineering Outernet
• The DROWN Attack - Breaking TLS using SSLv2
• Predicting and Abusing WPA2/802.11 Group Keys
• Lockpicking in the IoT …or why adding BTLE to a device sometimes isn’t smart at all
• Pegasus internals - Technical Teardown of the Pegasus malware
• You can -j REJECT but you can not hide: Global scanning of the IPv6 Internet - Finding interesting targets in 128bit of entropy
• Gone in 60 Milliseconds - Intrusion and Exfiltration in Server-less Architectures
• Code BROWN in the Air - A systemic update of sensitive information that you sniff from pagers
• On Smart Cities, Smart Energy, And Dumb Security
• The Fight for Encryption in 2016 - Crypto fight in the Wake of Apple v. FBI
• Talking Behind Your Back - On the Privacy & Security of the Ultrasound Tracking… (HN)

Politics, Society & World

• The Untold Story of Edward Snowden’s Escape from Hong Kong (HN)

• 3 Years After Snowden: Is Germany fighting State Surveillance?

• Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? - Becoming a secret travel agent (HN)

• International exchange of tax information (HN)

• Make the Internet Neutral Again - Let’s put the new EU Net Neutrality rules to work

• Copywrongs 2.0 - Prevent EU copyright reform from breaking the Internet (HN)

• Recount 2016: An Uninvited Security Audit of the U.S. Presidential Election

• The Global Assassination Grid - The Infrastructure and People behind Drone Killings

• Law Enforcement Are Hacking the Planet - How the FBI and local cops are hacking computers outside of…

• Visiting The Bear Den - A Journey in the Land of (Cyber-)Espionage

• Million Dollar Dissidents and the Rest of Us - Uncovering Nation-State Mobile Espionage in the Wild

• Anthropology for kids - What is privacy?

• Community - Social Life & Life in the early 21st century (Mitch Altman)

Lightning Talks

• Lightning Talks Day 2
• Lightning Talks Day 3
• Lightning Talks Day 4

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