Lots of very interesting talks lined up for this year's conference. Personally, I'm very much looking forward towards the keynote by Evgeny Morozov.

Pro tip: yours truly will be giving a talk on what can be done with the publicly available Israeli civil registry [1].

[1] - http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4652.en.h...

So sad that it is so hard to get a ticket to get there. (see comments here: http://events.ccc.de/2011/10/31/28c3-tickets/) (or: http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%2328c3%20ticket)

Yeah, I'd love to go but honestly I don't bother anymore.

I'll just go and watch the livestreams in a hackerspace and have some fun there.

I never take vacation between christmas and new years eve. Its usually a quiet week anyway and I get to watch all the c3 livestreams and enjoy some unwound coding. Especially the lightning talks had been very entertaining last year.

There is a (web)app for this http://test1337.scorpius.uberspace.de/28c3-Planer/ (Optimized for mobile devices)