media.ccc.de Courses

Wer hat Angst vor dem Neutralitätsgebot? - Verfassungsrechtliche Hintergründe und Autoritäre Strategien

Uncover the constitutional background of Germany's neutrality requirement debates and learn how to defend against authoritarian strategies targeting NGOs and democratic engagement.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Cosmic Ray, the Climate Catastrophe and Trains - Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing for Soil Moisture Prediction

Explore cosmic ray neutron sensing for soil moisture measurement and learn how trains help predict droughts through the German Dürremonitor system and physics-based modeling.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Watch Your Kids - Inside a Children's Smartwatch

Discover critical security flaws in popular children's smartwatches through live hacking demonstrations, exposing privacy risks and vendor promises.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

What Makes Bike-Sharing Work - Insights from 43 Million Kilometers of European Cycling Data

Explore how infrastructure, climate, and politics shape bike-sharing success across 268 European cities using 43 million km of trip data and geospatial analysis techniques.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

When 8 Bits is Overkill - Making Blinkenlights with a 1-bit CPU

Explore the Motorola mc14500 1-bit CPU architecture and learn to implement Conway's Game of Life with creative memory addressing techniques for LED control.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Angry Path to Zen - AMD Zen Microcode Tools and Insights

Explore AMD Zen CPU microcode hacking using EntrySign vulnerability to create custom tools, analyze ROM contents, and write your own microcode patches for Zen 1-5 systems.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Celestial Navigation with Very Little Math

Master celestial navigation using a sextant and custom slide rule with minimal math - create your own printable navigation tool for traditional position finding without GPS or electronics.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Last of Us - Fighting the EU Surveillance Law Apocalypse

Uncover the EU's ProtectEU surveillance strategy threatening encryption and privacy rights, plus learn resistance tactics against oppressive law enforcement expansion.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Greenhouse Gas Emission Data - Public, Difficult to Access, and Not Always Correct

Uncover the challenges of accessing greenhouse gas emission data from public databases, revealing data flaws and providing tools to work with EU and UN climate datasets more effectively.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Blackbox Palantir - Police Data Analysis Software and Legal Implications in Germany

Explore the controversial use of Palantir's surveillance software by German police, its legal implications, and ongoing constitutional challenges.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AI Agent, AI Spy - The Privacy Crisis of Agentic AI Systems

Explore the critical privacy threats posed by agentic AI systems integrated into operating systems and applications, examining how they undermine user agency and application-level security.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Silicon to Darude Sand-storm - Breaking Famous Synthesizer DSPs

Dive into reverse engineering custom DSP chips from the famous JP-8000 synthesizer, uncovering the SuperSaw algorithm that defined electronic music through silicon analysis and JIT emulation.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Endlich maschinenlesbare Urteile! Open Access für Juristen

Entdecke die Problematik unzugänglicher Gerichtsurteile in Deutschland und Strategien für mehr Transparenz im Rechtssystem durch Open Access und maschinenlesbare Daten.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Escaping Containment - A Security Analysis of FreeBSD Jails

Discover how researchers found 50+ vulnerabilities in FreeBSD jails, developed escape exploits, and revealed critical isolation weaknesses in this mature containerization system.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Render Cloud FPGAs Useless

Explore how researchers weaponized FPGA power consumption to create denial-of-service attacks on cloud instances, achieving 6 GHz oscillators and permanent wire aging damage.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video