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Digitale Souveränität - Sind Hacker:innen jetzt fürs Staatswohl verantwortlich?

Explore the concept of digital sovereignty and its impact on open-source adoption in German public institutions, featuring expert discussions on policy challenges and solutions.

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

Hacking Karlsruhe - 10 Years Later

Explore 10 years of strategic litigation against surveillance laws in Germany, examining successes, failures, and evolving tactics for challenging digital rights violations through the courts.

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

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

Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon

Discover how to reverse engineer Apple Silicon hardware and port Linux using hypervisor tracing techniques, driver development, and kernel upstreaming strategies.

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

DNA Security Systems Based on Molecular Randomness

Explore DNA cryptography and chemical unclonable functions (CUFs) using synthetic DNA sequences for revolutionary security architectures bridging physical and digital worlds.

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

Hatupangwingwi - The Story How Kenyans Fought Back Against Intrusive Digital Identity Systems

Discover how Kenyan civil society successfully resisted government surveillance through digital ID systems, using legal action, grassroots mobilization, and media campaigns.

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

Reverse Engineering the Pixel TitanM2 Firmware

Dive into reverse engineering Google Pixel's TitanM2 security chip firmware using Ghidra and Python simulation techniques for modified RISC-V architecture analysis.

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

Agentic ProbLLMs - Exploiting AI Computer-Use and Coding Agents

Uncover critical security vulnerabilities in AI coding agents through prompt injection exploits, ZombAIs, and nation-state attack techniques targeting major platforms.

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

When Vibe Scammers Met Vibe Hackers - Pwning PhaaS with Their Own Weapons

Explore how AI-powered fraud hunters dismantled Taiwan's fake delivery scam networks by exploiting the same AI-generated vulnerabilities criminals used to build their platforms.

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