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Chaosstuff Inauguration
Remember remember the 5th of November… yeah you totally should because November the 5th was the official inauguration of our Hackerspace "Chaosstuff"! A precious date for a precious event so to say.
Our fellow Hackers actually cleaned up the two rooms, held a soldering workshop, mixed cocktails for all and made sure you won't leave hungry!
We had enough visitors to DDoS the rooms capacities. I guess that was because our Hackerspace houses more than one NGO. The Chaos Computer Club Lëtzebuerg wanted to create a Hackerspace where more NGOs could gather. Currently we also house the Frënn vun der Ënn and the Repaircafé Luxembourg. More clubs = more traffic at the Inauguration. Still everything went fine and we all had a good time.
We would like to thank YOU for coming by. We hope that you found a new cool place to work on your projects and a community to share your knowledge with. More impressions of the day can be found here!
35th Anniversary
Today, 35 years ago, the Chaos Computer Club was founded in Berlin. Back in these days, Hackers were still a sub-culture which were looked very negatively upon and were feared by people through all society.
Nowadays Hackers and the formed culture around them are irreplaceable for their expertise in IT-Security, data privacy, digital foresight and many other topics in these domains.
I guess, a good way to get to know the way of Hackers or CCC is either to tag along for an event of ours, or watch this short report on the CCC in Germany an its history.
Nonetheless, never forget to Hack on!
hackyard'16
We are happy to announce, that the first stand-alone version of [h]ackyard was a full success. Internet was stable at an average rate of 21 Mbit down and 3 Mbit up, no deads, but a few injured hackers and a fabulous ambience amongst attendees.
A flashback in numbers:
Attendees: 19 (17 adults & 2 kids)
Antennas: 3
Tshunks: too much
Club-Mate: 3 crates
Viva 0,25: 2 crates
Cola 0,25: 1 crates
Beer 0,33: 1 crate
Hammocks: 6
Bars: 1 and a half
Firewood: 15 crates
Colourized lights: 3
Visual impressions will be referenced on the regarding wiki page.
We'll be back next year; harder, better, faster, stronger, hackier.
Staatstrojaner made in Luxembourg
Let's help to make digital Luxembourg great again!
As every new project nowadays needs a fancy website, the Chaos Computer Club Lëtzebuerg took the chance and released one to promote and inform the public about the State-Trojan (because obviously the government failed to do so). Germany showed us how to introduce and "securely" deploy such software. Now our government wants to follow this brilliance by introducing a State-Trojan made in Luxembourg.
So we invite all of you to visit the official website about Luxembourg's State-Trojan:
staatstrojanermadein.lu
tl;dr
Check out our satirical website about Luxembourg's State-Trojan.
ChaosStuff is flourishing
Thanks to the amazing effort put it by each of every member of this association, the Stuff - as we like to call it in Luxembourgish language - is flourishing and evolving at a very fast pace.
There are no pictures yet, as we have hundreds of them and they still need to be processed before the upload. Still, if you are interested in how it looks in here, go get a preview at our Twitter feed, on which we regularly update the situation in here.
As business as usual, the ChaosStuff is open to everyone. Still, if you'd like to visit at a time where a member of ours even has the time to accommodate you and give you a few explanations, Mondays between 18h15 and 20h00 are the right times to pop in.
After this, you are still very welcomed to stay with us during the ChaosMeeting.
By the way, the coming Saturday (2016/03/05) we'll proceed with this' year General Assembly of the association. So, don't mind popping by to pay us a visit.
We'll open at 2PM.
Hack on!
ChaosStuff
It took us months of striving Luxembourg and lots of discussion, when we'll finally be able to find a new home for the Chaos Computer Club Lëtzebuerg. Ironically, our new home is only separated by one parallel street from our very first meeting point - Seppl.
More to come tomorrow. :)
Home, sweet home!
All of our keyboard strokes have been heard by the almighty Tux! :)
We are proud to announce that we have moved in our own hackerspace. It's still nameless until the next Monday, but I'll keep you update here on the blog. :)
Have some impressions here. :)
Way too late
It's always the same story. First there needs to happen something and become public, before most politicians will act. At the moment an inconvenient side-effect of politics, which needs to be tackled in the near future.
What's now to be tackled once and for all, is this unfettered global surveillance by intelligence services, among our favorites NSA, GCHQ & BND. All others are meant as well, tough may be not mentioned here.
In plain text?
Intelligence services should be banned to history books; in other words: they need to be disestablished!
In order to clarify matters, the Luxembourgish government should have called an investigation committee into life right after the groundbreaking revelations by Edward Snowden.
Hopefully they will now.
Their is an entire list of things we could come up with to counteract such offenses to the sovereignty of a country and the European Union. One of them to be done right away: summon the ambassador to the United of America to one of our responsible Ministers for this subject.
We will follow the future events in this matter closely and also publish an official press release as soon as more information become available and we have positioned ourselves with our member base.
Digital Rights Ireland Conference 2015
Since 2008 C3L tries to raise a awareness for privacy and the fact of having a transparent government, instead of a transparent citizen. It's hard and rock way.
Here, in Eire, the NGO Digital Rights Ireland, organized a conference about privacy, data protection and data security in general.
The schedule is quite busy and parallel talks seem to be the normal way of procedure as well.
We'll keep you up to date from DRE2015 in this very post here.
chrescht & prometheus
Pressemitteilung: Alternativlose Sicherheitspolitik
Der Chaos Computer Club Letzebuerg (C3L) zeigt sich besorgt, bezüglich der Aussage von Minister François Bausch im heute ausgestrahlten Interview auf RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg, zur neuen Fussgängerbrücke unter der Adolphe-Brücke.
Eine helle Beleuchtung und Kameraüberwachung soll die Sicherheit der Passanten und Fahrradfahrer gewährleisten. Obwohl ersteres eine zu begrüßende Maßnahme ist, überwiegt letztere allerdings schwerwiegend mit einer sehr negativen Konnotation.
Im Rahmen unseres Auftrages, Bürger- und Menschenrechte zu schützen, hätten wir folgende Fragen an die Verantwortlichen, welche nur ein Bruchteil von vielen sind:
Wer wird das Kamerasystem betreiben? Wie lange werden die Videodateien gespeichert? Wo werden sie gespeichert? Wie ist es um die Sicherheit dieser Daten bestellt? Wird auch der Audioverkehr mitgeschnitten? Welche Massnahmen werden getroffen, um die Privatsphäre der in den Videos auftauchenden Menschen zu schützen, im Falle eines nicht staatlichen Systems?
Für die Osterferien schlagen wir den Verantwortlichen vor, sich mit den Schlüsselbegriffen „alternatives Sicherheitskonzept“ auseinander zu setzen. Wenn man diese in einer Suchmaschine eingibt, kommt man schnell auf anwendbare Konzepte, welche keine Kamerasysteme vorsehen und auf Alternativen zur „Sicherung“ des öffentlichen Raumes setzen.
Auch gewählte Politiker und ihre Berater dürfen sich das Wissen des Internets zu Eigen machen, und erfolgreiche Ideen und Konzepte übernehmen.
„Dass grüne Minister es nicht sonderlich genau mit Wahlversprechen in Bezug auf Grundrechte nehmen, ist nichts Neues. Solch eine Aussage, zeigt nun einmal mehr die alternativlose Sicherheitspolitik dieser Regierung.“ erklärt Jan GUTH.
Der Chaos Computer Club Lëtzebuerg verbleibt auch dieses Mal wieder mit dem Angebot an die Regierung und Gemeinden, auf der Suche nach alternativen Lösungen ein Ansprechpartner zu sein.