Five things that got broken at the oldest hacking event in the world

Information security took a hammering at Chaos Communications Congress, with intercoms, smart meters and even numbers themselves in the spotlight

Chaos Communications Congress is the world's oldest hacker conference, and Europe's largest. Every year, thousands of hackers gather in Hamburg to share stories, trade tips and discuss the political, social and cultural ramifications of technology.

As computer security is a big part of the hacker world, they also like to break things. Here are five of the most important, interesting, and impressive things broken this time.