@mbr It makes me sad to read about stolen stuff at congress. It was so much stuff last year. And it became a thing the years before that. Before it moved back to Hamburg for the first time I wasn't even able to find somebody who had ever heard of anything being stolen at congress ever. I asked around because there was an incident caused by somebody who snuck in to steal laptops. I used to leave my stuff unattended when I went for a stroll or get a drink. I only stopped because I was asked to by angels and I had to pick up my stuff from lost and found twice because somebody brought it there before somebody else might steal it. That's when this feeling of sadness started and reading about this now makes me realise that the congress that I love doesn't even exist anymore. It's not the same after the thought that theft exists enters your mind.

@steeph @mbr My laptop was stolen at the EasterHegg 2007. @timpritlove's laptop was stolen on the Chaos Camp 2003, I seem to remember. Several of my ZIP disks (with important data on them!) were stolen at #15c3, 1998. On the c3s before that, hardware was labelled at the entrance to make it harder to steal it. Even though it feels like you could leave your stuff unattended at Chaos events, it was never really a good idea.