Uwe Hermann | A slightly paranoid Debian developer

The Fahrplan (yes, that's German — it means "schedule") of the 22C3 (the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress) is online now.

Joi Ito will deliver the keynote speech titled "Private Investigations".

Here's a small (really!) selection out of the plethora of great lectures:

• Understanding buffer overflow exploitation
• Hacking CCTV
• Peer-to-peer under the hood
• The intelligent web searcher
• RFID - overview of protocols, librfid implementation and passive sniffing
• VoIPhreaking
• European politics concerning digital rights
• Biometrics in Science Fiction
• Software Patenting
• A way to fuzzy democracy
• Military intelligence for terrorists(tm)
• Black Ops Of TCP/IP 2005.5
• Robots for fun and research
• Search Engines - Oracles of the Information Society
• Secure Code
• Literarisches Code-Quartett
• Attacking the IPv6 Protocol Suite
• Towards the first Free Software GSM Phone
• Esperanto, die internationale Sprache
• "Xbox" and "Xbox 360" Hacking
• How to construct Utopia
• The truth about Nanotechnology
• Free Software and Anarchism
• Hacker Jeopardy
• Breaking Down the Web of Trust
• Access to Knowledge
• Bluetooth Hacking - The State of The Art
• The very early Computer Game History
• Security Nightmares 2006

Four days, four rooms, lectures from 12:00 am to 12:00 pm every day. Need I say more?

The first signs of the upcoming 22C3 congress ("Private Investigations") are here — the Call for Papers has been posted.

From their site:

The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) is a four-day conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) information technology, IT-security, internet, cryptography and generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the discussion about the effects of technological advances on society.

The Chaos Communication Congress is the annual congress of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). The Congress has established itself as the "European Hacker Conference" bringing in people from all over Europe and even further away.

The congress will take place in Berlin, Germany from December 27th to 30th, 2005 (four days this time!).

Go there if you can — this is not something you should miss.

(via Hendrik Scholz)