21st Chaos Communication Congress: Day 3

December 30, 2004 | Filed Under Travel |

Did not confuse timetables again and arrived on time for Christian’s Voice over IP talk.

Had a foot long subway sandwich as brunch with Melanie right in front of the tv tower.

Returned to the congress hall to listen to Dan Kaminsky’s second talk: MD5 considered to be harmful.
Went with Scotty to Angelo’s MacOSX practical insecurities talk and watched gleefully how he disclosed lots of security vulnerabilities and *gasp* a first mac osx worm that is able to replicate.

Listened to even more talks (Harald Welte’s NAT talk, Old Skewl Hacking: Infra Red and the entertaining review and preview “Security Nightmares 2005“) and stayed at the Congress Center till the end.

Bumped into Tim who was dissassembling the network and chatted a bit about the general network conditions. Setting up a high-demand network for 3500 people is a challenging and quite interesting job - I suppose - especially if you get equippment that is flawed, like switches with no firmware.

Decided to drive home to change and grab something to eat. Found a thai place at the Alexanderplatz (surprisingly with really nice food) that did takeaway and took the tram back home. Got really sleepy and could not persuade myself to drive back to the cbase party, so did an early night and went straight to bed.

Overall the Congress was great. There were some really excellent talks and quite a few entertaining speakers. If you are able to cope with some chaotic conditions, you should definitely attend.

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