My Favorite 39C3 Talks

My Favorite 39C3 Talks

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The 39C3, is the 39th Chaos Communication Congress event, based in Germany. 1 I have often seen people share talks individually and found some interesting.

The list of talks for the 39th event for C3 has been publicly released so I decided to look through the playlist and watched those that caught my attention. 2

I believe we could learn alot from all of the talks. But I wanted to share my favourite highlights.

Harvesting Data from Satellites

In this talk, two researchers talk about using ~ $500 equipment to evesdrop satellites belonging to the Military, Payment Processors and Airline Companies.3

A depressing realisation was that alot of the data was in plain text.

What was also very laughable was that one military satellite simply shuffled strings like {military: true} to {imilatyr : rtue} (in an attempt to secure data?)

Slide From Talk: It turns out you could see unencrypted payment details (card numbers, card names and balances) of people when they use payment processors.

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