Anatomy of a privacy fail – when “Dark Data” gives away your identity
This week’s super-scary security topic is deanonymisation – we explain how it works. Continue reading Anatomy of a privacy fail – when “Dark Data” gives away your identity
Category Archives: ccc
Hackaday Prize Bring-a-Hack Munich was Great
Thanks to everyone who came to the Hackaday Prize Make Munich Meetup and Bring-a-Hack last night! We had a great time, and there were a bunch of cool projects on display, some of which we even got pictures of. Frankly, we were enjoying chatting too much to be peering through a camera lens.
Around 30 people made it over to the Munich CCC, including some familiar faces from the last time we had a party in Munich. Although it was a mostly local crowd, we also had visitors from Switzerland, Austria, and even the US of A: TV-B-Gone inventor, HaD …read more
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33C3: Works for Me
The Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) is the largest German hacker convention by a wide margin, and it’s now in its thirty-third year, hence 33C3. The Congress is a techno-utopian-anarchist-rave with a social conscience and a strong underpinning of straight-up hacking. In short, there’s something for everyone, and that’s partly because a CCC is like a hacker Rorschach test: everyone brings what they want to the CCC, figuratively and literally. Somehow the contributions of 12,000 people all hang together, more or less. The first “C” does stand for chaos, after all.
What brings these disparate types to Hamburg are the intersections …read more
Your smartphone fingerprint reader could be hacked using paper and ink
Security researchers have tricked the fingerprint sensor on two smartphones with an inkjet printer, special silver conductive ink and paper. Continue reading Your smartphone fingerprint reader could be hacked using paper and ink