Fahrplan – 39C3

Time zone, streaming, and recordings

• Schedule times are in CET (UTC+1).
• All talks are planned to be live-streamed via the official streaming site.
• “Relive” rough-cut videos are available immediately after each talk; polished recordings usually follow within a day or two on media.ccc.de and YouTube.
• Many talks have live translations to English (and some other languages) for German sessions.
• Some talks are explicitly marked as not recorded; these are more clearly indicated on the “hub” site than in the Fahrplan view.

Schedule tools and filtering

• The official “hub” schedule provides better filtering than the basic Fahrplan, including a “recorded only” filter.
• Users want multi-category filtering (e.g., security + hardware + science); current tools make this awkward, though multiple browser tabs are a workaround.
• A community tool (fahrplan.cc) offers filtering by recorded/not, category, and includes self-organized sessions, workshops, and music.

Talks and speakers people are excited about

• Interest in both “celebrity” and deeply technical talks: examples include satellite security, legacy telephony infrastructure at the conference, long-running memory-leak exploitation, crypto in Chinese apps, GPG vulnerabilities, and AI agent exploitation.
• Some note that popular speakers sometimes repeat themes across years, prompting others to look for fresh topics instead.

Tickets, access, and growth

• Longtime attendees report that tickets now sell out in 1–2 seconds, making casual attendance impossible.
• Suggested strategies: get tickets through local hackspaces connected to CCC, or earn an “angel” voucher by volunteering heavily in a prior year.
• There is some disappointment about the perceived increase in unrecorded talks, especially for remote viewers.

Politics and the character of CCC

• One side argues CCC has always been inherently political, and that hacking, surveillance tech, and social impact can’t be separated.
• Others complain about “too much politics,” especially talks with little apparent connection to technology, and about a shift toward identity/social-justice topics and skepticism of technologies like AI.
• Some comments suggest that “too political” often really means “I disagree with the politics,” and that there’s little room for debate around the dominant views.

Community, nostalgia, and personalities

• Strong enthusiasm and affection for CCC, including nostalgia from attendees going back 15–20 years.
• Sadness about the absence/health issues of a well-known recurring speaker; some suggest sending get-well messages.
• A Matrix room was created for Hacker News readers attending 39C3 to coordinate without spamming the thread.