Discover that the new German ID card has weaknesses that ill-intentioned, can use to impersonate (electronically) by the victim. Demonstrate electronic terminals ready to vote in elections in Germany can be manipulated and are also non-transparent devices and therefore undemocratic, which led the German Constitutional Court declared in 2009 its use unconstitutional.Advocate the free flow of information, net neutrality at all costs and protect the private sphere. Here are some points of the activity of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), the association of computer hackers and activists of Europe's largest. This does not seem to fit the usual idea that a hacker is a person of dubious morality that is dedicated to breaking into the computers of others and make havoc.
"Someone like that does not last long between the community club," said Constanze Kurz, CCC. And, without imposing anything, the members of this association are governed by a code of ethics and the foundations established in 1984 Steven Levy in his book Hackers (now reissued and expanded in its 25 th anniversary).
Hacking is essentially "an activity with a strong game," says Debora Weber-Wulff, professor of the College for Technology and Economics (HTW in its German acronym) in Berlin. You want to know how things of this world and share it with others. Not necessarily focus only on getting the tickle a given operating system or find some of the deficiencies technological devices with which we are accustomed to live, but also to find alternative ways of doing things or get a device to do something or use it as for something that was not intended.
In short, make creative use of technology and free. This type of intervention, to make public the knowledge gained in the process, sharing with the community and the cases in which a hit (as described in the hacker ethic of the CCC website) inappropriately exploited this knowledge is what given rise to that in the best are perceived with ambivalence, and at worst, to criminalize the term hacker.
This "galactic community of beings of all ages, gender, origin or social position," as they define themselves, and currently has about 2,700 members, was founded in 1981 by Wau Holland at the headquarters of the Berlin daily Die Tageszeitung (Taz) . The club has a decentralized structure and is divided into smaller local and regional groups that meet regularly throughout the year.
Since 1984, he organized a meeting for members and people interested in the Chaos Communication Congress which has just celebrated its 27 th edition in Berlin and is gaining increasing importance internationally. "The club offers members as such infrastructure but does nothing but communicate with the press," says Henryk Plötz, member since 2001.
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