The Choas Computer Club of Germany hosts an annual conference in the week between Christmas and New Year's. The next one starts tomorrow. There are lots of interesting talks, and they are streamed live as well as archived online if you want to watch them later. The talks are streamed as OGG video, so you can watch them over Tor. I've gone through the schedule and pulled out some English language talks that would be relevant to our community. All times are local German time, UTC+1. 2012-12-27 11:30 Not my department On the topic of resistance. Jacob Appelbaum (of the Tor Project) http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5385.en.html ---------- 2012-12-27 20:30 Enemies of the State: What Happens When Telling the Truth about Secret US Government Power Becomes a Crime Blowing the Whistle on Spying, Lying & Illegalities in the Digital Era William Binney (former NSA agent) and others. http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5338.en.html ---------- 2012-12-28 17:15 The Tor software ecosystem Jacob Appelbaum and Roger Dingledine (of the Tor Project) http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5306.en.html ---------- 2012-12-28 20:30 Defeating Windows memory forensics Luka Milkovic http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5301.en.html ---------- 2012-12-28 23:00 Stylometry and Online Underground Markets (<-- I'm really interested in this!) Aylin, Rachel Greenstadt, Sadia Afroz http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5230.en.html ---------- 2012-12-29 18:30 Russia's Surveillance State (<-- could have relevant info for surveillance everywhere) Andrei Soldatov http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5402.en.html ---------- There's another Tor related talk in German: 2012-12-30 14:00 Proximax, Telex, Flashproxy oder Tor Bridges bersicht ber aktuelle Zensurumgehungssoftware Jens Kubieziel