42 years of CCC, 20 years of the Wau-Holland Foundation. Illusions, reality and future tasks

The "medium for the liberation of the individual" has turned out to be an all-encompassing surveillance machine and is destroying our social coherence. The CCC has been issuing warnings for 42 years and the Wau-Holland Foundation has been initiating countermeasures for 20 years. A report.

Credits: Wau-Holland-Stiftung

Klaus Schleisiek

I have been battling with electrons and soldering irons since I was 12 years old. In 1969, I became politically socialised while setting up the self-managed youth centre in Moers and then studied computer science at the University of Dortmund. Punch cards and batch processing spoilt my interest in programming. In 1979, I booted my first embedded 6502 system for the US art scene in New York. In San Francisco I learnt Forth from its developers and got to know Community Memory and the magazine "Processed World". Back in Hamburg, I initiated a meeting of "computer freaks" as 'Tom Twiddlebit' in 1981, which developed into the Chaos Computer Club. I have been a board member of the Wau Holland Foundation (wauland.de) since 2011. In the 1980s, I started to develop processors with stack instead of register architecture - initially as ASICs, now synthesisable in FPGAs. Since the 1990s, I have developed and produced measuring devices for marine geophysics, most recently systems/devices for tsunami warning and gas hydrate exploration. Since 2013, I have been developing electronics for satellites at Lake Constance. I have lived in Wendland near Gorleben since 2018. Hobbies: Reading, piano/organ (in absolute freestyle!), classical music (favourite composer Dimitri Shostakovich), opera