If anyone is interested, the CCC had it's annual conference in the days between the christmas days and new years eve in Hamburg, Germany. There are some quite interesting topics covered in several presentations.

<span class="bold">rop, frank: Ten years after &sbquo;We Lost The War&lsquo;</span>

<span class="bold">Whitney Merrill: Predicting Crime in a Big Data World</span>

<span class="bold">M. C. McGrath: Collect It All: Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for Everyone</span>

<span class="bold">Tobias Mueller, Christian Forler: The Magic World of Searchable Symmetric Encryption</span>

<span class="bold">Ron, frank: Security Nightmares 0x10 (english translation) </span>

<span class="bold">Caroline Sinders: When algorithms fail in our personal lives </span>

and much more here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/mediacccde/videos

Interesting. +1 for ya.