News
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.
cryptoParty @ Carré Rotondes (Exit07)
In our opinion, a cryptoParty needs to be in a cozy place without too much of an academic touch. Meaning: there will be 30 minutes of lectures at most and the rest of the time will solely be used to answer peoples questions and show them how to safeguard their data.
We are glad about the fact, that Carré Rotondes offered us the opportunity to host the event at their great place, which has a long story of events by activists fighting for the right cause and offers exactly the frame we were looking for!
So, if you are interested in how to protect your data and communications from curious companies and governments, this cryptoParty will be the event you need to attend to!
Let's hack towards a better future!
FOSDEM 2015
Finally, we have made it again. FOSDEM conference has started yesterday evening in Delirium bar with the traditional beer event. Lots of brewed beverages to choose from and above everything else, a lovely and heartwarming community to talk wiwikth.
However, the 'real thing' is always to start on Saturday morning with the first keynote. I guess, it is not necessary for me to point out, the motivation of attendees, pictured on the right.
As the conference has just kicked-off, there is not much to report just yet, but I will keep you up2date throughout the day in this very blog post.
Stay tuned via @c3l on Twitter! Or gold old RSS. ;)
Update
You can find impressions about FOSDEM 2015 here.
31c3: A new dawn
After a hell of a congress in 2013, C3L is glad that some of its members made it again, to join the largest hacker event in the year in Hamburg.
A pity, that not all of the members were so lucky, but for the hacky folks left behind, we offer two different spots to meet-up for Congress Everywhere. So, literally:
No nerd is left behind!
If you are interested in the congress, either join it yourself or by stepping by in on of our locations in .lu
Keep yourself up2date with the most informative links and services on our related page.
Aftermath CNPD Meeting
A lot of time has been put by us in this very first official meeting with the new CNPD administration. An hour and a half is not that much time, to explain 6 years of work to 4 people, but luckily we were offered some more meetings in 2015.
It was one of the most constructive assemblies I've ever had with an official administration; no barriers, friendliness, information exchange on both sides and knowing to be heard.
The moment we stepped out of the building, we all did a big whoop of joy and called it a day. ;)
Keep yourself up2date on this blog to see what we're up to!
entr0py - History of Hacking
Fellow listeners!
Our latest radio show is out and ready to download for you. This time we have discussed the most biggest hacks published by CCC in Germany. ;)
Stay tuned for the last show of next month the 20th of December.
Spark-Up! - Be prepared
The second iteration of Spark-Up! was small, but productive and above all enlightening. A few eye impressions and the presentations can be found on the related wiki page.
Stay up2date via our Announce Mailinglist or subscribe to the Spark-Up! page.
hack.lu 2014
As every year, we attend the http://hack.lu conference in Dummeldéng (Luxembourg City).
A nice, cozy, hacky conference, on which socializing and IT-Security will not fall short. A mash-up of hackers from all over Europe and some other parts of the world are to be met here.
We are represented with a booth in the main hall, besides the ones of the FluxFingers & level2 hackerspace. From UltiMakers to wireless antennas, from Proxmark's to Geigercounters and much more.
Lots of interesting talks going on here as well. C3L & FVDE will give a lighting talk about running a Tor organization in the next two days.
Stay tuned to this post to get regularly updates on the conference. :)