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Hello Blog,

please don’t be angry my last post was so long time ago… There has been a lot of change in my life. I finished my work at SES ASTRA TechCom. 3 month I spent there this time. It was an interesting job, even if not linked to security. I learned a lot about Unix, IP over Satellite, Python, and Networking in general.

Despite this good experience, I’m looking forward to continue my studies. In fact, next monday the lectures are starting. My career at the “Université du Luxembourg” ended also for the moment. I got my diploma in Computer Sciences and Engineering and now I will start my Master in IT Security/Networks and Systems at the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB).

Why Bochum? Well, driving from Luxembourg the “Autobahn” is mostly without speed limit, isn’t that reason enough? The  RUB is the 6th biggest University of Germany (32 700 Students) and has the biggest institut for IT Security of whole Europe. The Horst-Grötz Institut for IT Security.

I haven’t seen that much from Bochum till now, but what I have seen looks good. people seem nice, the city-part I’m living in is really nice and my flat is also cool.

Yesterday, I went to the hackerspace in Bochum: Das Labor. I have a little bit experience in hackerspaces, I have been in the C4 hackerspace, in the space of the CCC-Trier and of course in the fresh space of the hackerspace.lu, syn2cat, but I was really impressed by the labor. The space is just huuuuuuuge, and there were a lot of people present, soldering, hacking stuff, having fun with technology. For my part, I talked to some geeks there, very friendly persons. I met a guy that is  doing the Master I will do, and he explained me a lot of things, and gave me some hints which I appreciated a lot. Another hacker showed me his USA/Canada holiday photos and we talked a lot. The ideal place to meet the kind of persons I like. All in all, I have the impression that in the labor the focus is highly set on micro-controllers, which is something different, and interesting.