Fairy-tale ended on Wednesday after four days of lectures and virtual meetings in a specially created 2D world populated with avatars of the remote Chaos Communication Congress (rC3). The master of ceremonies “blubbel” from the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) read the audience a story about the “big annual festival” of the nerds, whose country had been ravaged by an epidemic. The “clever beings” had therefore come up with the idea of ​​building a “huge artificial island” that they could enter with their image of the soul instead of their body.

bubbling told.

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After a team of princesses and other scouts identified a “small valley with green meadows and lots of space” in the land of Neu as suitable, this one was included a lake, an island and boats have been equipped as a communication system over longer distances, said the hacker. In the actual rC3 world, the organizers use the open source video conference system Jitsi to fill in the communication areas and enable live communication between visitors.

Lovely Tetris sounds “At times the ports could no longer accommodate boats”, in the background there was still a lot of hammering, reported blubbel about the starting difficulties in the 2D world on the congress platform. To make matters worse, there was a “magical DDoS attack” (Distributed Denial of Service) on the 1st day of the conference, so that the storm defense had to be reinforced at night. Afterwards, the data travelers could finally have created more content and held meetings. Lovely Tetris sounds were heard, applications such as a bottle collecting simulator or a flamethrower controlled by DECT telephone were very popular.

But peace was not yet achieved: “A curse of invisibility hit the island” – by that blubbel meant various problems with the findability of the rC3-World via the Domain Name System (DNS). There are several entries in the status report about incidents that could only be cleared up gradually. 130. 000 DNS updates are due to the 2D world was necessary, it said from the infrastructure center. Altogether there are 34. 858 critical information, 13. 070 Warnings and two abuse emails because of the DDoS attack was received.

Despite the hardship, the opportunity for exchange and mutual learning was eagerly used, explained blubbel. Each hackerspace has given its own medals in the form of knight badges for heroic deeds, even places of need have been turned into celebration places. After the four days, however, the artificial island could no longer be held. The blueprints were retained and would be posted publicly so that many small editions could be set up via local hacking centers according to the motto: “And if the servers haven’t melted, then hack them today.