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> But it's increasingly difficult to get a ticket.

Correct, this year back in Hamburg is limited to 12.000 participants whereas last time in Leipzig had some 17.000 attendees if I remember well.

If you appear at the entrance tomorrow morning early with a sign requesting for a ticket, looking at this list https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/de/wiki/ticketexchan... I’m pretty sure you’ll get a ticket.

There are lots of tickets still available in the community, check #37c3 on chaos.social !
Please check here to get late tickets: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/board

Also, tickets this year weren’t that hard to get compared to previous years at CCH. You could buy tickets until Dec 9 this year (without vouchers) because lots of people clicked the order button but never paid and those tickets went back into the pool. Highly recommended to check the ticket page every day because this happens quite often.

Good luck next year!

Interesting talk on TETRA tomorrow

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2023/fahrplan/events...

> TETRA:BURST consists of five vulnerabilities, two of which are critical, including the backdoored TEA1 cipher (crackable in minutes on commodity hardware by a passive adversary), a keystream recovery attack (which works regardless of the cipher employed), [...]

Sounds amusing

A bunch of interesting talks, I'm especially looking forward to hearing about the proposed EU e-ID, as well as finally meeting so many like-minded people in one place, for the first time after Covid (for me)
Not judging, just reporting: organizers this year have urged people to wear masks. The vast majority (I guess >90%) of current attendees don’t wear a mask as of now.

Congress-Seuche has been a thing since forever and it won’t stop this year.

At least in the US the ship has sailed on mass masking.
In Germany too. CCC has always been on the very cautious side of that debate.
Masks do little to nothing wrt exhalations, so it doesn’t matter much if others mask or not. If you want protection from a mask, wear your own well-fitting ffp2/n95 mask properly and don’t sweat what others do.
If you're a first-timer on the congress: do not watch too many talks, you can always watch those as VoD later.

But you can't experience the feeling of walking through the halls after it'a over!