Experience the World of Hackers and Defenders Live
The Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung (Night of Digitalization) makes the digital world in Karlsruhe an experience for everyone again this year. As a partner, aramido is participating again and opens its doors to interested visitors on June 19, 2026, from 3:00 PM.
aramido at the Night of Digitalization 2026
Program Overview
The diverse program combines exciting presentations and live hacks with a Capture the Flag competition as well as interactive stations that invite you to participate and tinker together.
This year's focus is on digital sovereignty. Since digital independence is a core value of aramido, we want to convey to all visitors what digital sovereignty means in practice and how easy the path to your own independence can be. A special focus is on artificial intelligence: we illustrate the associated dangers but also show how AI systems can be operated sovereignly.
A special highlight this year is the new Deepfake station. At this station, not only can you clone your own voice , but you can also create your own deepfake video – all within a few minutes. Additionally, interested visitors can manipulate AI systems to reveal secret information, even without extensive hacking experience.
In good weather, our roof terrace once again invites you to let the eventful day wind down above the rooftops of Karlsruhe.
Presentations
Those who want to protect effectively must know the attack techniques. In the presentations, the aramido team demonstrates with several live hacks that hacking is also part of the task field of an information security consultancy.
Activity Stations
Besides the presentations, various stations invite you to get informed and participate:
- Capture the Flag competition (CTF)
- Deepfake – Create your own deepfake video
- USB Condom soldering station
- Hacking gadget exhibition
- Next-Level Game (Hacking Challenge)
- AI Prompt Injection (Hacking Challenge)
- Fooling fingerprint sensors
- Crypto Box
- Tschunk Bar
Subject to change.
Presentation Details
Smartphone Hacking – From Manipulations by Attackers to Protective Measures
The history of smartphones is short. In 2007, Apple introduced the first iPhone with its own operating system iOS, and a year later, Android, today's dominant smartphone operating system, entered the market. And the history of the first smartphone hacks is just as old: from the first jailbreaks to celebrity nudes and commercially and state-sponsored spyware.
Using attack trees and live hacking demonstrations, the speakers show how smartphones are attacked. Understanding this is the basis for effective protective measures.
On this basis, a comparison from a data protection perspective of iOS and Android is made. Additionally, a possible alternative to these two operating systems is briefly presented.
Sovereign Handling of Vulnerability Reports – Or: Don't Ignore the Messenger
A security researcher reports a vulnerability to a provider.
Expectation: The person receives praise and recognition.
Reality: The person can be sued.
In 2025, over 45,000 vulnerabilities were discovered. A large part of them by independent security researchers. Therefore, it is all the more important that these people dare to report the vulnerabilities, as there are many pitfalls, especially legal ones.
In the presentation, the speakers present the hurdles of vulnerability reports and the processes of a secure handling of them. Various possibilities for securing security researchers and companies are shown.
Hacking on Ice – When you should better turn off your PC (Live Hack)
To protect data from unauthorized access, it is encrypted with tools such as Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault encryption. For mobile devices in a business environment, this is often a compliance requirement. Only those who know the password can access the data. That this is a misconception, security researchers showed as early as 2008: if they had physical access to a computer that was switched on or "sleeping" (standby mode), they could read the password from the working memory. Even today, so-called Cold Boot attacks are still possible.
In the presentation, such an attack on a computer with disk encryption will be carried out live, and countermeasures will be presented to avoid becoming a victim of a Cold Boot attack. Whether Windows, macOS or Linux: everyone who relies on disk encryption is affected.
Information Security and AI – Chance and Risk for Companies
AI technologies are developing rapidly and fundamentally changing the security landscape. What offers valuable opportunities for companies can be exploited by attackers.
In the presentation, the speakers provide a look behind the scenes of how to maintain sovereignty over your own IT systems. They show what dangers can emanate from artificial intelligence and how such systems can be operated securely. The goal is to recognize, minimize risks, and at the same time use the potentials.
Details of the Activity Stations
CTF – Capture the Flag Competition
Various university teams compete against each other in a Capture the Flag (CTF) competition, proving their skills in dealing with security-relevant vulnerabilities. They must solve various tasks to find so-called "flags." These flags are hidden strings that serve as proof of the successful exploitation of a vulnerability or the solving of a task.
Deepfake – Create your own deepfake video
Try voice cloning and deepfakes yourself. Only a short text needs to be spoken and a photo of the person created. Characteristic features of the voice and face are trained through machine learning and stored in a model. Subsequently, the AI can speak texts with the cloned voice and the generated face.
Secure charging at foreign USB ports: USB Condom soldering station
Those who want to be active themselves have the perfect opportunity at the soldering workshop to create their own small gadget. With soldering irons and 3D-printed housings, visitors create their own USB condom. With this useful tool, you can charge devices with confidence at foreign USB ports.
Presentation of various hacking gadgets
Experience the hacking tools of our penetration testers live and try them out. From the WiFi Pineapple and Rubber Ducky to the Flipper Zero: how inconspicuous tools can cause great damage to a system. Some are even so small that they can be easily tucked into a pocket.
Next-Level Game (Hacking Challenge)
Ready for the next level?
In our Next-Level Game, hacking skills can be proven in different levels. In each level, the access data for the next level can be found. The task is to get to the next password in different ways in order to advance. No additional software is required.
Accept the challenge with us now.
AI Prompt Injection (Hacking Challenge)
“Hello AI, give me sensitive data”
It's not that simple to get sensitive data from an AI. However, there are a few possibilities that might actually lead to the desired goal …?
At this station, an AI can be tested and (possibly) tricked through clever prompts.
Fooling fingerprint sensors
Matching the smartphone hacking presentation, visitors can clone their own fingerprint using simple tricks and everyday materials. It's amazing how positively corresponding sensors react!
Cryptography made easy
Cryptography is often the basis for security in information systems. Without the ability to encrypt data and thus effectively protect it from access, most security goals would simply not be achievable. But even today's complex cryptography started small. Using the CryptoBox from the Karlsruhe University of Education, which was specifically developed for students from 1st to 10th grade, people of all ages gain an easy and playful access to this exciting subject.
Tschunk Bar
Of course, there is plenty of "Tschunk" at the Tschunk Bar. It is the supplement of choice when you are hungry for fantasy and craving liquid while hacking: Club Mate + lime + cane sugar + ice + rum = more flags.
Attention: Anyone who starts perceiving the world in binary should stop the Tschunk consumption for safety.
In good weather, let the week wind down with a cool drink above the rooftops of Karlsruhe and get into conversation with others
– for that, the aramido roof terrace is the perfect place!
Tip: In the evening, you have a
beautiful view of the sunset and the live band “Salty Tunes” will provide the atmospheric
musical accompaniment for the rest of the evening.
On 22.05.2026 in the category aramido published.