27.-30.12.2008 Berlin Chaos Computer Club
Nothing to hide, 25th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3)

When Steve Kurtz, professor of University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, former professor of art on the Carnegie Mellon University in May 2004 found his wife dead (she died due to the hearth failure) he called the police. The police consequently went through his house and found among others petri dishes prepared for the upcoming exhibition of GMO agriculture, they contacted FBI and Steve was charged with bioterrorism. In 2007 approximately 150 people committed so called “civil disobedience” and destroyed field with about hectare of genetically modified corn, which lies by the way in “GMO Free Zone”. This action was declared by the government as criminal and terroristic act. The temperature of our planet unfairly raises high. One search request on Google eats as equal amount of energy as 11 Watt bulb per hour whereas produce 6.8 grams of CO2. Opencard with integrated RFID supposed to simplify our life in the city. But this technology can be used and surely will to track people down by those who own the technology and those who are interested enough to get those data for their needs.
Nicholas Rockefeller on the line with Aeron Russo:
N.R.: “..by having this war on terror, you can never win it…so you can always keep taking people’s liberties away..the media can convince everybody that it’s real”
A.R.: “What are you doing this for?”
N.R.: “the goal is to get everybody in the world chipped with an RFID chip…and have all the money behind those chips and everything on those chips and when anybody wants to protest what we do or what we want, we just turn off the chip”

Internet is an open medium but few exceptions, the censorship in the China, Germany … The great problem is particularly its transparentness. Everyone can get the information of someone else without him noticing. For example in Brazil hijackers search for needed information on Myspace, Facebook, Youtube and so forth. Even on the Prague Cyber 2008 conference on cyberterrorism hold by the Ministry of the interior of the Czech republic admitted that the FBI and Czech police too use social networks to get information about suspects. Not only hackers try to keep hiding their identity. Although the privacy right is essential cornerstone in civil rights during the Cyber 2008 conference come out the opinion that anybody who tries to hide him/her self is a hacker and considered as a cyber terrorist. Why anyone needs to hide his/her identity if he/she is not engaged in something illegal? The question of privacy solves hacker not only hiding him/her self behind someone else’s identity but they also create programs such as Tor (http://www.torproject.org/). By using Tor common user can surf the Internet with no traces and can send, receive or share his own data anonymously. The Mailinator (http://mailinator.com) lets user create an temporary email whereas registration is not required. The security question was present throughout the whole Berlin conference. Hackers in cooperation with scientists used 200 Playstations 3 (coupled in cluster) and during days of the 25C3 conference creates out of common SSL certificate working CA certificate. Thanks to this CA certification can be further created new legitimate certificate and consequently used as a verified certificate for money transactions.

Based on the common widely spread picture of the hacker we could treat him/her as a person without soul trying to get somewhere where he/she has no obligations ideally exercising robbery. On the contrary hacker seams to be critical thinking looking for the possible solution for his “homeland” virtual world and for his planet he/she lives on as well. Seams like there is a link among hackers and artists, both have critical sight and slight consciousness of technological impact on human and the earth. This trend can be seen again in Berlin and it’s Transmediale or in Linz on ARS Electronica. Whilst in the art world still prevail non critical fascination of technology, the hacker world already (sort of) understands that this world is not just a fancy toy.

25C3 homesite:
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/,
conference recordings:
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/wiki/Conference_Recordings

If you like to read the Czech version (bit truncated thought) buy new No. of Flashart(cz)..I guess it’ll be printed out on the beginning of February 2009.

I do not really watch tv, I do not even have one (even though I pay for it, that’s something I have to change, anyway back to the story), not because I do not have money, but because I don’t thing they give us the truth, who does :)
But today I saw interesting thing in TV. Some guy hypothetically spend 3 millions Czech crowns within 2 days which is no possible (that’s what they said, but if you count a bit you probably get the same conclusion). The only thing that pops up in my mind and makes me smile is that he was hacked.

So here is my thought. Some clever guy found out there is a security hole in encryption. They said that those who hacked the phone has to stolen the SIM first to make a copy etc., but I thing someone found a way how to decrypt the encryption on the fly (same as the WEP or WPA hack), and that’s is the bug he or she, who ever wants to point at!

For me it’s pretty much clear. They made such enormous charges, because they simply want to emphasize the fact that the SIM copy wasn’t use by the human and that this is only a illustration of the security problem (the company haven’t mentioned even a word indeed).
I think they just want to point at this security hole this way, just to remind us that no technology is perfect as we all like to forget.

Here are some links:
the video from TV (cz) starts at 12min.
a nice SIM description (cz)
and one lovely tutorial how to hack SIM card (en)
and many many more, where else then on Internet :)

I know, I might be wrong, but one thing is clear, we use the phone for everything and totally believe in security of this technology. Be surre, it is not! And that’s the message.

You know the end of the year is here again and it’s always tough to find any reasonable thing to do. This year could be different ;) During the December 27th to 30th, 2008 Berlin will hosts 25th Chaos Communication Congress.
I always wanted to either do my own stuff or see anything that is related to my own thoughts and get rid of the common s…. at this time. If all things goes well will spend those otherwise boring days learn something interesting.

Quote: The 25th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). It takes place at the bcc Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world. The 25C3s slogan is “Nothing to hide”.

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/

This is bit out of the common topics on this site, but once it’s done it has to shared?
I’m happy to test the iPhone for a while and find out the GPS pretty useful. Because the iPhone use Google maps you have to download the current map tiles on the way and it cost money. I’m the type who always tries to find the way how to customize things for him self …bla bla bla.

Here is the cheap solution.

Luckily the iPhone is on the market for a while and people have same needs. If you have your iPhone Jailbroken the go to Cydia (freeware) and download OfflineMaps (freeware).

The tricky part is that you have to make the map for your self first and then upload it to you iPhone ;) You can either use the GMDL (freeware) application and make the maps of you desired location or you can download (207MB) mine I have made for my self. I made two maps, one in high resolution for Prague and one for whole Czech republic in lower resolution.. the map is not totally complete it lacks the lower part of Czech Republic, the one that touches the Slovak republic, but if you live in the same suburb as I do, this map will be fine for you ;)
The use the DiskAid app, (freeware) plug the iPhone to your PC with Windows (sorry guys but just for now) and navigate to /var/mobile/media/maps place the content of this file there. So that the Maps folder will includes two folders cz & ph, each of them with two files com.apple.Maps.plist & MapTiles.sqlitedb. Go to Your OfflineMaps chose those maps and you are done. Enjoy.
The GPS localisation system works without the Wifi, Edge, cellular data connection, so if not less you always find your self on the map and then you will know where you are.

“I Have A Dream“

Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963

Hello all interested in 3D virtual world. Another, this time Czech Blender conference is on the way. Under some circumstances this conference will be more of Game engine part of Blender, but fortunately not only. If you are interested more in animation stuff, consider these presentations as well, because you never know when you’ll have to animate something that could be done by the realtime simulation. For people who have just started there is also Basic lighting lecture which will be interesting even for Blender geeks and more and more, check the schedule.
The Czech Blender conference 2008 will happen on 7th October 2008 from noon to 7PM again on Academy of Fine Arts Prague.

Schedule is:

13:00 / Jan Mucska (o—-o): Game engine in the commercial field
14:00 / Peter Nespesny (Psychotron): Problematics of architecture visualisation
15:00 / Martin Schrimpel (G_Taurus): Basic lighting 2.46
16:00 / Jan Kudrnáč (XHN): Sculpt a normal map generarion
17:00 / Jan Kaláb (Pitel): Physical simulations
18:00 / Adam Preisler (Alfisko): Textures and modeling formost for games

/tmp/ is a fusion of Slovak & Czech music creative artist.

We would like to introduce you some known & unknown however interesting music individuals born, live and work in our central european suburb. Some of those unknown artist are brought by my shivers radio project.

11/07/2008 Friday, 20:00-5:00, Bunkr Parukářka – Prague 3 – Žižkov
Tram/Bus 26, 9, 5, 55, 58, 136
Entry 100kč
CZECH ATTACK SECOND EDITION stage

20h00 / Juraj / minimalist reproduction (SK)
21h30 / Milan Guštar / experimental programing (CZ)
23h00 / AY-RIDERS / realtime 8-bit show (UK, PL, RUS a CZ)
00h30 / BBNU / turntablism (CZ)

SLOVAK ATTACK SECOND EDITION stage
Ambient/noise/electro/dubstep/click’n'cuts/idm/neonmetal

20h45 / Jack/Jack / noise positive (SK a CZ)
22h15 / Voise Over Noise / anythingoes (SK)
23h45 / batcha de mental / melodramatic popular song (SK)
01h15 / Jack Jackson5 / submisivní DJ performance (SK a CZ)

Digilab presents a conference focused on licences, namely Creative Commons license and copy-left. Conference will cover themes such as Czech & Slovak license legislation, show some advantages and disadvantages on practical examples, even people from  Wikipedia core will come and finally will have a chance to see and hear the point of view of Slovak hysteria.sk fellow.

4/11/2008 BIOKO

17:00 / Lukáš Gruber: Creative Commons & Czech legislation
17:30 / Dušan Barok: Creative Commons in Slovak republick
18:00 / Jan Mucska: Creative Commons from practical view
18:30 / Josef Aujezdský: Law aspects of Open Source Licences
19:00 / Petr Kadlec: Licence not only on Wikipedia
19:30 / Adam Hazdra: Free Culture
20:00 / Pajkus: anti-copyright hysteria.sk

flayer

This post might seems out off topic but I think it’s a nice project so I want you to know it as well.

The story:
I wanted to buy  The TAO TE CHING book written by Lao tzu so I went straight to Amazon and found there an old translation form 1943 hardcover. You know once I want to buy a book it has to have grate cover :), but the picture isn’t presented there so I went on searching and first found http://www.taoteching.org/ where is all the poetry in nice order but then I found thegutenberg.org site. There are no pictures of any covers as far as I know but couple free book about 3 millions ;). They are in txt, pdf an many more formats, so if you like to read something and don’t want to wait for delivery or you don’t mind the blinking screen when you read give it try.

Ok guys, I have been hacked twice within the last half a year, they hacked first my old project site http://bfight.org and now my http://emblem.cc. This all means and they are more then right I do not mind what those sites do, or how they look like, even more the system and the security is, week (I did some things but surely not enough). It’s a pretty hard work make the site to be secure all the time, and once you have more of them as I do…. ;)

Thanks to hackers, they point in to black, you are right!