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The Angry Path to Zen: AMD Zen Microcode Tools and Insights (39c3)
[EntrySign](https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hacking) opened the door to custom microcode on AMD Zen CPUs earlier this year. Using a weakness in the signature verification we can load custom microcode updates and modify behavior of stock AMD Zen 1-5 CPUs. While AMD has released patches to address this weakness on some CPUs, we can still use unpatched systems for our analysis. In this talk we cover what we found out about microcode, what we saw in the microcode ROM, the tooling we build, how we worked to find out more and how you can write & test your own...
Race conditions, transactions and free parking (39c3)
ORM's and/or developers don't understand databases, transactions, or concurrency. After the [Air France-KLM dataleak](https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-lightningtalks-58027-air-france-klm-6-char-short-code) I kept repeating this was not a real hack, and confessed I always wanted to hack a system based on triggering race conditions because the lack of proper transactions. This was way easier than expected. In this talk I will show how just adding `$ seq 0 9 | xargs -I@ -P10 ..` can break some systems, and how to write safe database transactions that prevent abuse. In this talk I will explain what race conditions are. Many examples of how and why...
GPTDash – Der Reverse-Turing-Test (39c3)
KIs (bzw. LLMs) wirken immer menschlicher. Schon längst ist es schwer bis unmöglich zu erkennen, ob ein Text von einer KI oder einem Menschen geschrieben wurde. Maschinen dringen immer mehr in den menschlichen Diskurs ein. Wir wollen das nicht länger hinnehmen und drehen den Spieß um. In unserem Reverse-Turing-Test schlüpfen die Teilnehmenden in die Rolle einer KI und versuchen so robotisch-menschlich wie möglich zu klingen. In einer anschließenden Blindstudie prüfen wir, wer sich am besten unter KIs mischen und beim nächsten Robot Uprising die Spionin der Wahl wäre. Humor, Kreativität und ein Hang zu allgemeingültigen, nichtssagenden...
Build a Fake Phone, Find Real Bugs (39c3)
Mobile phones are central to everyday life: we communicate, entertain ourselves, and keep vast swaths of our digital lives on them. That ubiquity makes high-risk groups such as journalists, activists, and dissidents prime targets for sophisticated spyware that exploits device vulnerabilities. On Android devices, GPU drivers have repeatedly served as the final escalation vector into the kernel. To study and mitigate that risk, we undertook a research project to virtualize the Qualcomm Android kernel and the KGSL graphics driver from scratch in QEMU. This new environment enables deep debugging, efficient coverage collection, and large-scale fuzzing...
Netzpolitik in der Schweiz: Zwischen Bodensee und Matterhorn (39c3)
Auch in der Schweizer Netzpolitik ging es im auslaufenden Jahr drunter und drüber. Wir blicken mit gewohntem Schalk auf das netzpolitische Jahr 2025 zwischen Bodensee und Matterhorn zurück - und diskutieren jene Themen, die relevant waren und relevant bleiben. **Themen sind unter anderem:** **E-ID und E-Collecting:** Die netzpolitische Community hat nicht nur eine privatisierte E-ID verhindert sondern auch den Datenschutz als zentrales Prinzip verankert und einen beispielhaften Gesetzgebungsprozess begleitet. Das Gleiche haben wir bei E-Collecting vor, mit dem wir die direkte Demokratie der Schweiz auf ein neues Level heben wollen. **Elektronisches Gesundheitsdossier:** Was macht man, um eine...
The Museum of Care: Open-Source Survival Kit Collection (39c3)
The talk is about the ideas behind setting up the David Graeber Institute and the Museum of Care. The Survival Kit Collection brings together collectives developing open source "social technologies" —spirulina farms, self-replicating 3D printers, modular housing, low-cost water systems, and ... art and education. In 2019, together with David Graeber, we held the first workshop about the Museum of Care at CCC to reimagine the relation between freedom, technology and value. Over these 6 years, the Museum of Care and the David Graeber Institute have experimented with various projects: the survival collection, Visual...
Shit for Future: turning human shit into a climate solution (39c3)
Humanity has already crossed the point where simply reducing emissions will no longer be enough to keep global warming below 2°C. According to the IPCC (AR6, WGIII), it is now essential to actively remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere in order to meet global climate targets, maintain net-zero (or even net-negative emissions), and address the burden of historical emissions. At the same time, degraded soils and the climate crisis are a threat to global food security. Two years ago, I presented an overview of different methods available for carbon dioxide removal. Today, I want to...
The Last of Us - Fighting the EU Surveillance Law Apocalypse (39c3)
The virus of surveillance is spreading across the European Union. In the form of its "ProtectEU" Internal Security Strategy, the European Commission is planning to attack encryption, re-introduce mandatory data retention and strengthen Europol and Frontex, the main agents of its oppressive law enforcement infrastructure. In this talk, we will journey the wastelands of the EU surveillance apocalypse together: We will take a close look at what politicians are planning to undermine our fundamental rights, the technology involved, and the real harms we must fight. From there, we will chart pathways to resistance and...
APT Down and the mystery of the burning data centers (39c3)
In August 2025 Phrack published the dump of an APT member's workstation. It was full of exploits and loot from government networks, cell carriers and telcos. The dump sparked a government investigation, and corpos like LG and Korea Telecom were asked to explain themselves. Hours before an onsite audit, the data center mysteriously caught fire, destroying almost a hundred servers. Then another data center burned - and unfortunately, there was even one death. The talk aims to revisit this mysterious sequence of tragic incidents. [TW: Suicide, self-harm] In August 2025 Phrack published the dump of an APT...
Design for 3D-Printing (39c3)
3D-Printers have given us all the unprecedented ability to manufacture mechanical parts with a very low barrier to entry. The only thing between your idea and its physical manifestation is the process of designing the parts. However, this is actually a topic of incredible depth: Design engineering is a whole discipline to itself, built on top of tons and tons of heuristics to produce shapes that are functional, strong, and importantly: well-manufacturable In this talk, I will present the rules for designing well-printable parts and touch on other areas of design considerations so you...