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.
The State Supreme Court in Hesse has announced NEDAP voting computers can now be used in the Hesse state elections this coming Sunday. The Court justified its decision with jurisdictional reasons since, as a matter of principle, verification is only permissible after the election in an official ballot verification procedure. The Court consequently had no opinion on the constitutionality of the use of NEDAP voting computers. The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) regrets this because the by-elections are now threatened in Hesse in light of the close-run results forecast if a ballot verification procedure is contested after the election. more …
Der Chaos Computer Club ist stolz, in Bestzeit Mitschnitte der Vorträge vom 24. Chaos Communication Congress veröffentlichen zu können. Sie sind inzwischen per BitTorrent verfügbar. more …
Unter dem Motto "Volldampf voraus!" lädt der Chaos Computer Club zum Congress in Berlin ein. more …
Immer mehr Sicherheitsvorfälle in IT-Systemen gehen auf das Konto von unsicheren Web-Servern oder -Clients. more …
Berlin, Germany (presse@ccc.de, November 27, 2007) Biometrics experts of the German Chaos Computer Club (CCC) worked together with German TV magazine "PlusMinus" to demonstrate the ease of counterfeiting fingerprints. In front of running cameras, a fingerprint scanner installed at a supermarket checkout was deceived, charging the transaction to someone else's account. The journalists of the TV magazine were able to trick the point-of-sale system with forged fingerprints after only a short tutorial from CCC experts, therefore refuting the claim of biometrics proponents and manufacturers that such a forgery scenario is only possible in a controlled environment such as a laboratory. Fingerprinting systems which are used in the new biometric passport and are planned to be deployed in the German ID-card, can be deceived with the most trivial methods and do not provide any mentionable security. more …
Um alle größeren Städte der Republik abzudecken, wird es noch in diesem Jahr eine Demonstration unter dem Motto „Freiheit ist Sicherheit“ am 24. November ab 12 Uhr in Köln stattfinden. more …
OpenStreetMap ist der Versuch, unter einer freien Lizenz (nach dem Wiki-Prinzip) Kartendaten zu sammeln und zu erzeugen. more …
Der Chaos Computer Club hat bei der Anhörung des Verfassungssausschusses der Hamburger Bürgerschaft einen grundlegenden Angriff gegen das Digitale Wahlstift System (DWS) vorgeführt. Die Demonstration zeigt, daß das für das DWS verwendete "Digitale Papier" manipulierbar und fälschbar ist. more …