I agree technical talks showing interesting hacking skills belong to the congress. However, the congress is the one event in the year where hackers in Germany o

I agree technical talks showing interesting hacking skills belong to the congress. However, the congress is the one event in the year where hackers in Germany or even Europe actually get any media coverage. Using this attention to also address general problems in society like privacy and ethics helps more than restricting the program to technical talks only. At 30C3, I felt the balance between the different tracks of the conference schedule was quite good.