Chaos Communication Congress

The 22C3 in December 2005

The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual meeting of the international hacker scene, organized by the Chaos Computer Club. The congress features a variety of lectures and workshops on technical and political issues.

The event takes place regularly at the end of the year since 1984, with the current date and duration (December 27-30) established in 2005. The congress started out in 1984 in Hamburg, moved to Berlin in 1998, and back to Hamburg in 2012. Having exceeded the capacity of the Berlin venue with more than 4000 attendees, the 2012 meeting in the considerably larger venue in Hamburg set a new record attendance of slightly over 6,000 participants.

A large range of speakers are part of the scene. Organizational work is done by volunteers called Chaos Angels. The non-members entry fee for four days has been 80 Euros since 2006.

An important part of the Congress are the assemblies, semi-open spaces with clusters of tables and internet connections for groups and individuals to collaborate and socialize in projects, workshops, and hands-on talks. These assembly spaces, introduced at the 2012 meeting, combine the hack center project space and distributed group spaces of former years.

From 1997 to 2004 the Congress also hosted the annual German Lockpicking Championships. 2005 was the first year the Congress lasted four days instead of three and lacked the German Lockpicking Championships.

Past congresses

Individual congresses are abbreviated C3 and prefixed with the congress number (e.g. 29C3 for the 29th congress), subtitled with a motto reflecting the zeitgeist and congress topics.

No.	Year	Motto	short	venue place
1	1984	CCC'84 nach Orion'64		Eidelstedter Bürgerhaus in Hamburg, Germany
2	1985	Du Darfst
3	1986	Damit Sie auch morgen noch kraftvoll zubyten können
4	1987	Offene Netze – Jetzt!
5	1988	ich glaub' es hackt
6	1989	Offene Grenzen: Cocomed zuhauf
7	1990	- no motto -
8	1991	Per Anhalter durch die Netze
9	1992	Es liegt was in der Luft
10	1993	Ten years after Orwell
11	1994	Internet im Kinderzimmer – Big business is watching you?!		Bikini-Haus in Berlin, Germany
12	1995	Pretty Good Piracy – verdaten und verkauft		Eidelstedter Bürgerhaus in Hamburg, Germany
13	1996	Der futurologische Congress – Leben nach der Internetdepression
14	1997	Nichts ist wahr. Alles ist erlaubt.
15	1998	All Rights Reversed		Haus am Köllnischen Park in Berlin, Germany
16	1999	- no Motto -	16C3
17	2000	Explicit Lyrics	17C3
18	2001	Hacking Is Not A Crime	18C3
19	2002	Out Of Order	19C3
20	2003	Not A Number	20C3 NaN	Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany
21	2004	The Usual Suspects	21C3
22	2005	Private Investigations	22C3
23	2006	Who can you trust?	23C3
24	2007	Volldampf voraus!	24C3
25	2008	Nothing To Hide!	25C3
26	2009	Here Be Dragons	26C3
27	2010	We come in peace	27C3
28	2011	Behind enemy lines	28C3
29	2012	Not my department	29C3	Congress Center Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany

See also

• Chaos Communication Camp
• DEF CON

External links

Media related to Chaos Communication Congress at Wikimedia Commons

• Congress overview
• Past C3s
  • 29C3 (2012) Not My Department
  • 28C3 (2011) Behind Enemy Lines
  • 27C3 (2010) We Come in Peace
  • 26C3 (2009) Here Be Dragons, Dragons Everywhere streaming locations
  • 25C3 (2008) Nothing to Hide
  • 24C3 (2007) Full Steam Ahead
  • 23C3 (2006) Who Can You Trust
  • 22C3 (2005) Private Investigations, Weblog, Public Wiki
  • 21C3 (2004) Usual Suspects, Weblog, Public Wiki
  • 20C3 (2003) Not a Number
  • 19C3 (2002) Out of Order
  • 18C3 (2001) Hacking is not a Crime
  • 17C3 (2000) Explicit Lyrics
  • 16C3 (1999)
  • 15C3 (1998) All Rights Reversed
  • 14C3 (1997) Nichts Ist Wahr Alles Ist Erlaubt
  • 13C3 (1996) Der futurologische Congress