Call for Papers: Chaos Communication Camp 2003

Aldert Hazenberg sent in this note about a Call for Papers: "Papers are being solicited for the second Camp of the Chaos Computer Club e.V., Germany, to be held near Berlin, Germany, on 7/8/9/10th August 2003. The Camp is intended to promote the interchange of technical, social and political ideas and concepts to find ways to make this world a little bit more friendly to intelligent beings."

Comments

Intelligent ?

[sigxcpu]

As someone once said to Carl Segan, after his speach about searching for extraterastrial intelligance.
- "First lets see if we can find any Intelligance on Earth."

The Facts

[Talisman]

Let's look at the facts about this seemingly innocuous meeting:

"Papers are being solicited for the second Camp of the Chaos Computer Club e.V., Germany, to be held near Berlin, Germany, on 7/8/9/10th August 2003."

'Camp of the Chaos Computer Club' can be reduced to the initialism 'CCCC'. You'll note it is 4-letters in length. The fact that 'NAZI' is also 4-letters in length strikes me as a bit too much of a coincident.

Just like 'HAL' in the movie 2001 was actually 'IBM' rolled back one letter, 'CCCC' is actually 'NAZI' if you roll the first 'C' forward 11 letters, the second 'C' back 2 letters, the third 'C' forward 23 letters and the last 'C' forward 6 letters.

11 - 2 + 23 + 6 = 28, i.e. 1928, the year the Nazi Party came to power in Germany.

And where does this so-called 'Computer Club' call home?

GERMANY!

The cat is out of the bag, chumps. We're onto you like hair on a gorilla.

MOD me up: +1 Sherlockish

Tal

Re:The Facts

[ChrisHanel]

CCCC is only one character shift away from CCCP, and he goes for the "NAZI" Connection instead. Only on slashdot. :)

Re:The Facts

[Olode]

The Facts are:
1) The CCC has nothing to do with the nazis
2) The number of fashism People in Germay is very small
3) The NSDAP (the party of the Nazis) came to power in 1933. The election results 1928 were 3%

=> IMO we have got no problem with any kind of people. Not like in other Countries which are thinking they are the Policy of the world and give a shit about human rights.

mfg
axel

Info

[Hrshgn]

The CCC is acutally quite well known and respected in the german speaking area. They get media attention whenever there are hacker/privacy issues and the media needs an expertise. At least that's how I perceive the club.

Right from their website's faq:

Q: What is the CCC?

A: The CCC is a galactic community of human beings including all ages, genders, races and social positions. We demand freedom and flow of information without censorship. Although we enjoy to discuss and analyze recent advances in information technology, our focus is on addressing the issues of our time by giving targeted recommendations for a public policy able to deal with these issues in an intelligent manner. While this also includes more or less spectacular endeavours the focus of our work is on creating a public awareness for the need to approach issues like (e.g.) security, privacy and key escrow from a more informed, open viewpoint. If you are interested in supporting these goals, then the CCC is for you. If not, you might want to consider looking at other, more technically oriented computer clubs. We do NOT select our members on some dubious "elite" criteria. As it will be difficult for you to contribute to our efforts in Germany, in case that you are interested I suggest that you contact us again (identifying yourself with your real name) for a contact at the CCC-Bay Area (our only overseas operation so far). Sorry, the rest of this FAQ is in German only. If you'd like to translate this stuff, please mail!

Remember also that the famous Blinkenlights were their celebration of the club's 20th anniversary.