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Hacker Jeopardy

blog@synflood.at (Andreas Krennmair) — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:41:12 +0100

Hacker Jeopardy was great fun this year, first time in English, and Fefe, last year's winner, has won again. The first prize: an OpenBSD rain coat. And the first one to congratulate was Wim Vandeputte of OpenBSD/Humppa/Beerdrinking fame.

Fefe and Wim (from left to right)

Slides of my presentation

blog@synflood.at (Andreas Krennmair) — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:49:53 +0100

Here you can find the slides of my presentation, Military intelligence for terrorists: 22c3.pdf
Have fun!

Teemu beim Riesentoblerone essen

blog@synflood.at (Andreas Krennmair) — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:02:54 +0100

Notwehr am 22C3

blog@synflood.at (Andreas Krennmair) — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:47:27 +0100

Travelling to Berlin

blog@synflood.at (Andreas Krennmair) — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:34:41 +0100

I'm going to travel to Berlin on the 26th, to 22C3, so here's some basic information for the people who are interested in it. I'm going to take a train from Linz to Vienna at 13:50, arrive in Vienna at 15:35. From there, I will take the bus to the airport, and departure from there at 17:50. The plane will arrive at Berlin Tegel at 19:15, and presumably Nico will pick me up from there. Due to the usual christmas stuff, it is very likely that I will not be able to read my email until getting some connection in Berlin, so for important things it is better to contact me via cell phone. The number is +43 699 1777 8107. See you in Berlin!

Short hair again!

blog@synflood.at (Andreas Krennmair) — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:08:01 +0100

Today, after work, I went to the next barber and got a new haircut. These reason for it? I will have to go to the Austrian Army in January, and I would like to get used to short hair (which is mandatory in the Army). Of course, losing all that nice long hair hurts a little bit, as it took me over 3 years to grow it long.

On the picture of the right I look totally stupid, but I didn't get it better. Oh, and you still see bits of the parting that I had when I still wore my long hair. That's also the reason why I have to use styling gel, otherwise it would look even crappier. Anyway, no more "3117 h4xx0r" look, as Nion said, so I will look like a more or less nice boy at the next 22C3.

New Year's eve: Berlin

blog@synflood.at (Andreas Krennmair) — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:23:58 +0100

This year's Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin lasts one day longer than the years before, it now goes from December 27th to December 30th. As I would like to be at the event for all 4 events, I decided it would be quite a lot of stress to travel back to Austria on 31st, I would be tired, and New Year's eve celebrations probably would be too much for me. So thanks to Nico, I can stay at his place and thus will celebrate New Year's eve in Berlin, and return on January 2nd. I'm already looking forward to it, as Berlin, with its unique charm, is probably my favorite city.

A nice side note to this is that I will (as usual) travel by plane, as it is (mostly) stress-free, and quite affordable. I don't even mind spending a few extra euros on having a nicer journey than by train from Linz to Berlin. And the question is whether flying really costs more than going by train. I don't know, the last time I went by train to Berlin was in late 2002 (19C3), and that was a group of 6 persons or so, and it was before the big reform of the german railway pricing system, and I still had to pay about EUR 120,-.

Anyway, when I was searching for the right flight, my first choice was Air Berlin, as I used them several times before (Chaos Communication Camp 2003, 20C3, 21C3) to get to Berlin, and remember them to be reasonably priced. Well, not this time. That is probably because I got my holiday relatively late (my fault), making it impossible to get a cheap seat. Well, next airline. HLX. They fly Salzburg - Berlin and return, so that would have been a good option. If they only were a bit cheaper. Well, last resort, let's check those airlines that are not among the well-known no-frills airlines like Ryanair, Air Berlin, HLX, EasyJet, and so on. Well, a quick check at Austrian Airlines, a well-reputated airline that also well-reputated for its usually high prices. Well, not this time. EUR 148 from Vienna to Berlin and back. Very nice. And the first time that I will fly with something other than the usual Boeing 737, namely a Fokker 70. Berlin, I'm coming!

My 22C3 lecture submission was accepted

blog@synflood.at (Andreas Krennmair) — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:21:05 +0100

News of the day: my 22C3 lecture submission was accepted! Hooray! Now I have to work for it even harder to produce a good presentation.

In the comments of my previous blog entry about the lecture submission I mentioned that I wouldn't want do this presentation in the USA or the UK. Oh, well, I was invited by Paula to... London, and I will go there from November 10th to 13th. Let's see whether they will arrest, interrogate and detain me...

Eine Lanze brechen für den Fnord Jahresrückblick

blog@synflood.at (Andreas Krennmair) — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 21:06:21 +0200

Wie Fefe in seinem Blog schreibt, wurde anscheinend der Fnord Jahresrückblick für den 22C3 nicht genommen.

Wer den Fnord Jahresrückblick nicht kennt: hier werden die Nachrichten, die in den Mainstream-Medien eher unbeachtet blieben, die etwas obskures oder skurriles an sich haben, oder sonst wie einfach in sich komisch sind, präsentiert und besprochen. Der erste Jahresrückblick fand auf dem 20C3 statt, und wurde sofort sehr positiv aufgenommen. Letztes Jahr, beim 21C3, wäre der Vortragssaal sogar fast wegen Überfüllung geschlossen gewesen, und auch wenn einem zum Ende hin eher das Lachen im Hals stecken blieb (wegen der präsentierten Sachen), war das meiner Meinung nach die wertvollste Veranstaltung des gesamten Congress. Auf der What The Hack wurde schließlich The Fnord News Show gemacht. Außerdem betreibt Fefe seit April 2005 (editor's note: korrigiert) ein eigenes Blog, mit in etwa demselben Themenkreis.

Und um jetzt endlich eine Lanze für den Jahresrückblick zu brechen: meiner Meinung nach ist die Arbeit, die Fefe und Frank mit dem Fnord Jahresrückblick leisten, eine extrem wertvolle. Bei mir selbst haben die Fnord Jahresrückblicke sowie Fefe's Blog einen wesentlich kritischeren Umgang mit Medien und Newsmeldungen ausgelöst, und nicht zuletzt hab ich dadurch erfahren, was sich denn so alles in der Weltpolitik abspielt, was man in den Mainstream-Medien nicht so mitkriegt (auch wenn man bei alternativen Nachrichtenquellen ebenso vorsichtig sein sollte). Deswegen bin ich sehr dafür, dass andere Leute ebenso diesen Einblick kriegen sollte, und eine sehr effiziente und gut dafür geeignete Veranstaltung ist da eben der Fnord Jahresrückblick.

My lecture submission to 22C3

blog@synflood.at (Andreas Krennmair) — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:17:23 +0200

I just submitted a lecture to 22C3. Contrary to my contribution to the CCC Camp 2003 and the 20C3, it is only computer-related in the way that computer programs are used as tools.

I named the lecture "Military intelligence for terrorists(tm)", and is supposed to show how easy it is for terrorists to gather and correlate relevant intelligence information using only a few free tools. The topic itself it inspired by this blog entry that I posted some while ago, where I successfully identified the location of a nuclear power plant in the US, including satellite photos and stuff.

I hope that the lecture will be accepted, because I have a few pretty interesting things to show, where you will really ask yourself why the US government hasn't censored that yet (although that's futile...).