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I recommend Jacob Applebaum's presentation (I only watched part 2. You don't necessarily have to watch part 1). He talked about these two articles in particular: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-power... / http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-ns... in good detail. Pretty impressive (and frightening) stuff.

If you're into hardware hacking then these are fun (in addition to Bunnie's and the Wii U):

* "Even More Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation"http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5279.html

* "My journey into FM-RDS" http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5588.html

If you prefer reading text they are also both well written up on their respective blogs.

FPGA 101 is very informative: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5185_-_en_-_...

ps: CCC is awesome, every hacker should plan of attending at least once in your life! :)

First time I attended, I agree with this statement.

I liked:

Script your Car! (with python) http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5360_-_en_-_...

Would be happy to get some feedback to my talk :) http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5387_-_en_-_...

also liked the script your car. great classic embed hardware probe demo. and i always postponed learning can bus. extra points for using an eeepc and keeping the 3c tradition alive, even if in his case seemed to be against his will.

> The Keynote by Glenn Greenwald - http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5622_-_en_-_...

> The Tor Network - http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5423_-_en_-_...

> Bullshit made in Germany (might only be interesting for Germans) - http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5210_-_de_-_...

To Protect and Infect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0w36GAyZIA

Electronic Bank Robbery is awesome... it's about hacking into an ATM to make it spit out bills at random times. Link: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5476_-_en_-_...

I really enjoyed this talk on Wii U hardware hacking - http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5290_-_en_-_...

> "How to Build a Mind - Artificial Intelligence Reloaded" http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5526_-_en_-_...

The Exploration and Exploitation of an SD Memory Card: http://youtu.be/r3GDPwIuRKI

Fast Internet-wide Scanning and its Security Applications: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5533_-_en_-_...

A lot of people also recommended 'Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes', but I haven't seen that one myself so far: http://youtu.be/j56s46e97Lo

You should definitely watch Weis' German talk "Cryptography after Snowden". So good.

Still on the hardware side of things this was also interesting to me:

* "Programming FPGAs with PSHDL: Let's create the Arduino for FPGAs" http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5186.html

Long Distance Quantum Communication

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5536_-_en_-_...

Watching The Tor Network right now... pretty interesting