I have a feeling that when someone at Apple who knows what CCC is wakes up on Monday morning, this rejection will be reversed.
Remember that these rejections are not the Official Word Of Apple From The Ghost Of Steve Jobs. It's just some random employee that has to get through a million of these in a day or something. The thought process is probably something like "hacking, jailbreaking, industrial espionage... nope" and they click a button to reject. Or it could even be a mistake.
That's not better is it? It just means that if you're already famous, you can get around rules that apply to others. It centralizes and increases censorship.
They put a very specific list of talks that they do not approve - it does seem that they spent some time going through the content that CCC wanted to share through this app before finally rejecting it.
Remember that these rejections are not the Official Word Of Apple From The Ghost Of Steve Jobs. It's just some random employee that has to get through a million of these in a day or something. The thought process is probably something like "hacking, jailbreaking, industrial espionage... nope" and they click a button to reject. Or it could even be a mistake.