Contributed by mbalmer on from the geh-du-mal-duschen-ich-mach-schon-mal-kaffee dept.
The 23rd Chaos Communication Congress (23C3) is the annual four-day conference of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and encourages a critical-creative attitude towards technology. Since 1984, the Congress has established itself as the "European Hacker Conference" bringing together the brightest heads from Europe and all over the world.
We want you to join and be a part of this unique event which serves as a public platform for cross-culture inspiration and borderless networking. 23C3 is fun!
For more information, please visit http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/
There will be the usual OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth run by Wim. Quite some of the European OpenBSD developers will be present.
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By Anonymous Coward (87.78.90.188) on
Has Wim requested help, yet?
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By Anonymous Coward (87.78.90.188) on
Submit your own and/or get your ass over there...
> Has Wim requested help, yet?
Mail him and ask directly...
(soz)
By Wim (213.41.185.88) wim@kd85.com on http://www.openbsd.org/events.html
If you want to keep track what the places to be are, check with http://www.openbsd.org/events.html
You'll find a list of recommended events where we will be present, boothslaves are always welcome.
More important than that, we really encourage people to talk, there are so many topics from a sysadmin and users perspective that have not been covered by developers.
Even though this is the coolest security event in 2006 (wel, let's not forget http://www.opencon.org), it leaves enough room for topics like impact on society of computers. Your talk does not need to be technical.
I have yet to see a talk about how to deal with spam. Or ddos.
Anybody?
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By Nate (65.95.240.81) on
A watchful ISP should notice traffic spikes and try to stop these kinds of attacks.
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By wim (194.78.167.231) wim@kd85.com on https://kd85.com/notforsale.html
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> A watchful ISP should notice traffic spikes and try to stop these kinds of attacks.
Like duh and none of the gambling and credit card clearing sites have been using OpenBSD in the past to save their ass...
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By Anonymous Coward (70.27.15.123) on
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> Like duh and none of the gambling and credit card clearing sites have been using OpenBSD in the past to save their ass...
What are you talking about? OpenBSD has added magic packet fairies that wander upstream and eat bad packets before they can fill your pipe? You can't protect yourself against a DDoS with openbsd, you need to either have enough bandwidth to handle it, or get your ISP to block it.
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By Mike (130.49.131.29) on
What if you are the upstream ISP, and you run OpenBSD. You could use it to protect your customers from a DDoS.
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By Anonymous Coward (70.27.15.123) on
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> What if you are the upstream ISP, and you run OpenBSD. You could use it to protect your customers from a DDoS.
Just like you could use any other packet filter. The topic "how to deal with ddos" is not worth a talk at all, nevermind an openbsd specific one, when all that changes from platform to platform is the firewall syntax.
By Dunceor (192.16.134.66) dunceor@gmail.com on
I'll just have to wait until CCC Camp next year insteed.
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By Anonymous Coward (134.106.146.206) fkr@grummel.net on
no, the date is perfect. Its the only conference in the year, where I can be sure, that work will not require me with urgent stuff. :)
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By Anonymous Coward (88.139.183.79) on
any date ?
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By Anonymous Coward (87.78.90.247) on
> any date ?
possibly again at the end of july/beginning of august.
date will be set aprox at the time of 23c3.
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By Anonymous Coward (81.56.211.110) on
> > any date ?
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> possibly again at the end of july/beginning of august.
> date will be set aprox at the time of 23c3.
thanks
By Anonymous Coward (82.231.136.192) on
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By Anonymous Coward (87.78.90.247) on
Every open group has its mixed audience. (No, i'll resist pointing to misc@)
With a gain in popularity you'll get something of everything.
I even think that there are still some people in the linux com that "get it".
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By Anonymous Coward (86.204.252.187) on
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By Anonymous Coward (202.6.138.34) on
Its an alternative Operating System; like Windows.
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By Anonymous Coward (86.213.170.43) on
> Its an alternative Operating System; like Windows.
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er... I think this was a joke...
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By Anonymous Coward (213.113.152.27) on
> > Its an alternative Operating System; like Windows.
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> er... I think this was a joke...
er.. I think that was a joke.
By Thorsten Glaser (213.196.246.87) on http://mirbsd.de/mksh
The other BSDs will be there of course too.
Nice "dept." - showering is always a good suggestion
for these conferences, and coffee a must.
By Anonymous Coward (89.48.48.73) on
they really going to make you? Also consider a "hacker" conference
in a nations capital. Hmmm. Anyhow if all you want is buy some
OpenBSD merchandise from Wim you may as well travel to Belgium on
a day he isn't at some venue peddling his wares.
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By Wim (194.78.167.231) wim@kd85.com on https://kd85.com/notforsale.html
> they really going to make you? Also consider a "hacker" conference
> in a nations capital. Hmmm. Anyhow if all you want is buy some
> OpenBSD merchandise from Wim you may as well travel to Belgium on
> a day he isn't at some venue peddling his wares.
The whole point of setting up a small OpenBSD embassy at events like this is to offer a safe haven of sanity to our users and show to others what is possible with OpenBSD. It's a social event that enables people to interact. And get a few drinks too, of course.
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By Anonymous Coward (89.48.45.138) on
> > they really going to make you? Also consider a "hacker" conference
> > in a nations capital. Hmmm. Anyhow if all you want is buy some
> > OpenBSD merchandise from Wim you may as well travel to Belgium on
> > a day he isn't at some venue peddling his wares.
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> The whole point of setting up a small OpenBSD embassy at events like this is to offer a safe haven of sanity to our users and show to others what is possible with OpenBSD. It's a social event that enables people to interact. And get a few drinks too, of course.
Are you saying that people are at risk and that they are in need of a safe haven at such venues?
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By Anonymous Coward (198.208.251.24) on
> > > they really going to make you? Also consider a "hacker" conference
> > > in a nations capital. Hmmm. Anyhow if all you want is buy some
> > > OpenBSD merchandise from Wim you may as well travel to Belgium on
> > > a day he isn't at some venue peddling his wares.
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> > The whole point of setting up a small OpenBSD embassy at events like this is to offer a safe haven of sanity to our users and show to others what is possible with OpenBSD. It's a social event that enables people to interact. And get a few drinks too, of course.
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> Are you saying that people are at risk and that they are in need of a safe haven at such venues?
Aparently you havn't had a 'hacker' drag you into his long and interesting story of getting wine to work in linux....
By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on
at least 12
> Also consider a "hacker" conference in a nations capital.
is there some reason it would be better to hold it in say, a small rural village ? apart from it bieng a lot nicer of course.
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By Anonymous Coward (87.78.95.84) on
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> is there some reason it would be better to hold it in say, a small rural village ? apart from it bieng a lot nicer of course.
Nothing beats a multi-gigabit uplink the NOC begs you to fill up.