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For us Americans that don't know anything about this: it seems that this is done by the Chaos Computer Club[0], which runs the Chaos Communication Congress[1] w
by stevehawk 7y ago
For us Americans that don't know anything about this: it seems that this is done by the Chaos Computer Club[0], which runs the Chaos Communication Congress[1] which is a sort of German DEFCON.
0 - https://www.ccc.de/en https://www.ccc.de/en
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress
- ronsor 7y agoI'd assume most people that know about HN know about the Chaos Computer Club.
- taddevries 7y agoDon't ever make an assumption like that. I have never come across this group.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- stevehawk 7y agoExcept I had literally never heard of them. And the only comments on this topic (when I posted) were other people asking who they were and why this was on HN.
- yorwba 7y agoI wonder if you noticed any of these recent frontpage submissions and just didn't associate them with the CCC: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=true&query=media.ccc.de%2Fv&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
- stevehawk 7y agoI recognize those headlines. I don't believe I clicked a single one of them though (if I did I likely closed it as soon as I saw it was a video). Not that it matters. I opened this HN article wondering what it was all about.. saw several others had already commented they had no idea what it was about.. so I looked it up. And here we are.
- riffic 7y agoThis is a form of "feigning surprise", and it's somewhat rude.
- vertex-four 7y agoCongress has (and always has had) a significantly more political focus than DEFCON - there's some very good talks on technology and ethics in there.