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The Chaos Computer Club e. V. (CCC) is Europe's largest association of hackers. For more than forty years we are providing information about technical and societal issues, such as surveillance, privacy, freedom of information, hacktivism, data security, and hacking. As the most influential hacker collective in Europe we organize campaigns, events, lobbying and publications as well as anonymizing services and communication infrastructure. There are many hackerspaces in and around Germany which belong to or share a common bond to the CCC as stated in our hacker ethics.
Chaosdock 2008
Das Chaosdock ist ein Veranstaltungsformat des CCC Zürich (CCCZH), das erstmals 2006 stattfand. more …
Chaos Computer Club takes part in "Motodrone"
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is taking part in "Motodrone", the European event for scientists, researchers and developers in the field of open source aerial drones in Finowfurt near Berlin on September 20th, 2008. Interesting talks, discussions, workshops and flight shows are planned for the event. more …
Köln: OpenChaos zu Dynamisches Routing
Dynamisches Routing erlaubt es, große und komplexe Netzwerke aufzubauen, ohne auf zentrale Strukturen angewiesen zu sein. more …
Tax Offices assign Personal Identification Numbers
German citizens are receiving letters from their Tax Office containing their new 11-digit tax IDs. Germany-based civil rights organization Chaos Computer Club (CCC) considers this number to be an illegal personal identification number (Personenkennziffer) and fears its misuse by the authorities. more …
Chaos Computer Club offers help to victims of censorship in China
In response to widespread outrage against internet censorship in China, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) offers aid in circumventing the censorship measures to the affected athletes and journalists. more …
Electronic Insurance card: Please don't Smile
Some German health insurance funds started asking their members to send in photos for newly issued electronic insurance cards, despite the fact that important security questions regarding the system are still unanswered. The Chaos Computer Club advises all members to not send a photo as yet. more …
Clause 202c of German penal code endangers German IT industry
In a substantial report to the Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG, German constitutional court) the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has studied the impacts of the so-called "Hacker Paragraph", a change to the penal code. The CCC comes to the conclusion, that clause 202c is unsuitable and even runs contrary to the legislator's intended goal. more …
Swiss "Freedom Campaign" against biometric passports
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) wishes to draw attention the all-party referendum committee against biometric passports and identity cards in Switzerland. more …
U23 2008: Ein spannendes Projekt für junge Leute bis 23
Die beiden regionalen CCC-Gruppen Köln und Darmstadt bieten für junge Leute bis 23 Jahre im Rahmen des Projekts „U23 2008“ einen mehrwöchigen Kurs zum Einstieg in die Mikrocontrollerprogrammierung an. more …
CCC reports information leak at TNS Infratest/Emnid: the living rooms of 41,000 citizens exposed on the internet
The scientific journal of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), Die Datenschleuder, reports that market research firm TNS Infratest/Emnid has lost 41,000 private data records of their survey participants. more …
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