@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 i don't go to chaos events anymore, i think 38c3 was the last one. partly because of the theft problem, mostly because of other problems related to harmful social dynamics, it's simply not a community i feel safe in anymore. i agree that it used to be different.