The new product XYZ is completely secure and hack-proof. Have you heard that from politicians or companies before? It usually turns out very soon that the claims are bogus, and that the product is not as secure as claimed. Germany is on the brink of introducing new biometric identification cards. Those new IDs not only [...]

Categories: Security

Germany is the largest country in Europe where Google’s controversial Street View has not gone live.  This is because of privacy complaints made about the service around the world.  Now the German government has called for a voluntary data protection code to be in place by 7th December this year, as reported by the BBC. [...]

Categories: Google

The German web censorship law passed the German Bundestag earlier today. This could mean that German Internet providers with more than 10.000 customers have to create filters based on a secret list that is provided by the German Federal Criminal Office. Users who access Internet sites that are included in the list will be presented [...]

Categories: The Web

Companies try everything to reduce labor costs to a minimum by automating, which simply means replacing humans by computers, and outsourcing, which means producing in countries with lower labor costs, processes. The ideal world for them is a world without labor costs at all to maximize profits and please the shareholders.

Categories: Gadgets

The German police searched the houses of more than 130 German edonkey users after logging actions on a popular edonkey server for more than two months. The police had a record of 40.000 IP addresses of which about 3500 could be traced back to German users. The police was not willed to reveal the servers name but admitted that the server itself was hosted in Germany.

Categories: P2p