*opening music*
*33c3 opening theme music*
*applause*
Anna: Hi, everyone and welcome to the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress.
It's great that you all made it here and joined us for this huge event.
Elisa: And of course we also want to say hi
to everybody who is watching the stream today
whether you are at home
with friends at your local Erfa
or at the hackspace of your choice.
I've got a question to the people
who are here in the room today.
*applause*
Like him, obviously.
So, everybody in the room,
also people in this wonderful police box,
who is at their first
Chaos Communication Congress ever?
Please rave.
Wow! That's a lot.
Wow!
Big applause!
So they are the Chaos mentees
Wow, welcome to all of you
it's great that you found your way here.
—When I came to Congress first
I had mixed feelings before
like my first feeling was
nervousness.
Like, it was like, wooo!
What should I do here?
And there were many questions
like the first question was like
could I connect to people
or would I stand, like, in the corner hiding
because I'm intimidated by
all the cool stuff people are doing.
Will people look down on me
because I'm not like the leet hax0r
or because I'm not fluent in Perl?
But, like, yeah
the following years it was okay,
but like, today, the nervousness came back
because like, something to do with the stage.
But, yeah, we'll get there.
—Before I came to my first Congress
I had a similar feelings.
But as soon as I arrived,
all my worries and fears were gone.
I was so fascinated
by all the blinking lights
by the awesome projects
and by the openness with which people
talked to each other and worked together.
I was really overwhelmed by
how Congress is an event that is shaped
by all its participants
that is made by all of us
for all of us.
—First to mention...
*applause*
First to mention the Angels
like, all those volunteers
who make Congress work for us
who work for us
and who can't be thanked enough.
Like, they do a lot of, lot of tasks.
*applause*
They do a lot of tasks,
and some of them you see
some of them you don't.
For example,
they collect bottles
and you really help them
by dropping your bottles
at the bottle drop points
when you exit those halls
through the exit.
—In this hall,
there are 16 emergency exits
that are marked with a green exit sign.
There are 10 main doors,
4 left, 4 right, and 2 central.
6 doors at the rear of the hall,
3 left and 3 right.
Please note that the exit nearest to you
could maybe behind you.
*applause*
—Angels do a lot of other tasks too,
for example,
they watch the doors
so the halls don't get overcrowded.
—They announce speakers.
—They do translations and subtitles.
This year, also in French, sometimes.
—They help you if you should get lost.
—And they carry a constant supply
of ice cubes and limes
behind the scenes at the bar
so there's always enough tschunk to go around.
*applause*
To list all their tasks would take us a lot of time.
So let's thank all the Angels
even those we couldn't mention here
with a thundering round of applause again.
*applause*
—And, becoming an Angel is really easy
all you have to do is register
in the angel system
which is on the Internets.
Go to Heaven, which is in this building,
and find a job that suits you.
Even as a first-time attendee of Congress
you can be a part of it,
with the positive side effect
that you will get to know new people.
And if you are shy,
maybe you should take the night shift
and watch the entrance
because then you will have to talk
to your co-Angels
in order to avoid falling asleep.
—When I first went to Congress
I was also fascinated by all the people
who seemed to be living
in this Congress building for days
to build up this huge event.
And to bring us all the infrastructure;
for example, they brought us the Internet.
*laughter*
*applause*
But they also bring us couches
they bring us a DECT phone infrastructure
and they bring us a giant snow globe
to dance in.
—All this is only possible
because people have incorporated
one guiding principle
which of course all of you know
"Be excellent to each other."
For sure—
*applause*
Yeah.
*applause*
For sure, Congress is not
the island of the blessed.
Conflicts exist here
as they do everywhere.
But you and we and so many people
in the past years and even decades
have been trying hard to make it work
to make it better, step by step,
and I think we've come a long way
in doing so.
After only a few days
at my first Congress,
I was sure, Congress works for me.
This would not have been
my last Congress.
—But certainly, as every year,
Congress was over,
I left the building
that was not blinking anymore.
I went to the train station
and I got kind of sad.
People weren't excellent to each other
anymore.
People were just rushing
into their overcrowded trains.
There was no mutual consideration.
And I fell into kind of a
post-Congress depression,
I think some people know that.
And I asked myself,
where are all the people
that are inspired and enthusiastic,
and where's like the respect
towards each other
not considering, like anything,
like features or appearance.
—Any day that is not a day of Camp
or Congress or another Chaos event
leaves something to be desired.
I guess most of us will agree on that.
But the last 12 months provided us
with even more reasons to be subdued,
and to yearn for another world.
For a few days, we will now have that.
We can live another life
in another world.
We can do what we love
and share all this with like-minded people,
which is great.
But when you take this year's motto,
"Works For Me,"
there could not be a stronger contrast
to my feelings
towards the world out there.
There, nothing seems to work.
And I've got a lot of bug reports to file.
—Not all of those bug reports
are technical,
and not all of them might be
ours to fix.
But they all make the world out there
not work for me.
Do you think it's not that bad?
Then let's look at a few examples.
Our freedoms are cut back
more and more.
In the nineties,
people fought the crypto wars
to make strong encryption
accessible for everyone.
Today, state actors
call for laws
that— to build backdoors into products
leaving every single person less secure.
—Secret services all around the world
infiltrate standards and software
to get access to the communication
of simply everyone.
Didn't we learn anything
since the groundbreaking
revelations of Snowden?
And now we rely on a few big
corporations to withstand
these developments,
which of course they only do
to keep their unique selling point?
This doesn't work for me.
—But it's not just about the digital world
which might be a focus for many of you.
Violation of human's rights
are the order of the day.
People all around the world
face repression
if they stand up against totalitarian
systems and injustice.
Free speech is censored
and persecuted.
People are facing years in prison
face being tortured or worse
if they speak up
and stand up against the system.
—All across the world,
right-wing populists
now dare to act in the open
and in some— in some places
they even ? seize power.
*applause*
From the idea of a connected world
we now face a shift towards
parochialism, towards isolationism,
and from there
also to national supremacy.
In this climate,
aggression and hate
towards perceived minorities
flourish.
Houses burn,
people get chased through the streets,
and people die.
—These are only like a few
prominent examples.
Many people on this place
face existential threat every day.
We don't see them
or we don't feel them, yet.
Droughts caused by
overexploitations
causes wars and causes death.
Just because a problem
doesn't happen in our backyard
mean that it's not terrible
or that it doesn't affect us any more.
But how long do we dare
—and I include myself—
to look away and to ignore this?
Does this really work for us?
I know my answer,
and I believe many of you share
the will to make things better
step by step.
—All those problems,
and there are many,
big and small,
can easily make us feel helpless.
So, how can a single person
change anything at all?
Well, there's one good message.
There is no need to travel alone.
Just take a moment and look around you;
look at your seat neighbours.
There are 3,000 people
in this room alone.
And there will be 12,000 people at Congress
which is amazing.
12,000 people for you
to get to know
to make friends with
or to meet again.
And all of you have unique skills,
big ideas,
and all of you can do great stuff.
—It's up to us
not to just make Congress work for us
but to use this Congress to connect,
to share ideas, skills, and knowledge
to work on projects,
start new projects,
and connect to people.
It is up to us
not to stay in the gated communities
that evolved
and transport what we do here
in Congress and what we start here
to the outside world.
We cannot hide
under a cozy blanket
and wait until the world
magically gets better again.
Now, more than ever,
it's time to take action.
This is not a game.
There is no game.
—You can start right now.
Gather into gangs
and practice for the coming year.
After you got your wristbands,
you have the opportunity to get
—wait, where do I have it—
one of these cards.
Who got one already?
Yeah, that's a few,
that can be improved.
Okay, you know what to do.
So, maybe those of you already got one,
named yourself
and selected your special skill
that is your own.
If you did not grab a card,
don't worry, you can still get one.
To start, no game, but action,
you need to form a gang
with other people
with different skills.
9 skills, which you can combine
to solve tasks and to succeed.
You can move and act together.
You don't have to travel alone.
—There is no game.
There is action.
And now let Congress begin!
Work, have fun, enjoy,
get to know each other,
and try to make the next year
a bit better than this year.
And, by the way,
don't forget to wash your hands.
*laughter*
*applause*
Wash your hands,
take a shower from time to time,
and don't forget to sleep and eat.
Thank you!
*applause*
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