Bundesrichter stellt Verfahren gegen ‘Bioterrorist’ Steve Kurtz ein
Gegen den us-amerikanischen Künstler, Wissenschaftler und Aktivisten Steve Kurtz vom Critical Art Ensemble läuft seit 2004 ein Verfahren, erst wegen Bioterrorismus, später wegen eines Gesetzes, zu dem...
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“Terrorism is the antithesis of America”
.. sagte Mark Bartlett, Bundesanwalt im Verfahren gegen Briana Waters, die heute zu sechs Jahren Haft verurteilt wurde. Eine 32-jährige Frau, die eine dreijährige Tochter hat und darauf besteht,...
View ArticleEine Million TerroristInnen in den USA
Man fragt sich, warum so intensiv anderswo nach welchen gesucht wird, wenn sie selber soviele haben.. Die US-amerikanische Bürgerrechtsorganisation ACLU hat heute gemeldet, dass inzwischen eine...
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Der Internet-Minister oder: Ordering bloggers around is like herding lolcats
Secretary: Part 1 Teil 2 Teil 3 Teil 4 Teil5 by xkcd,
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Blogging against surveillance
Sometime in June of this year I wrote this text which was meant to be published in a magazine which eventually never got to the printer (but still might, so they say). Just in case some people who...
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Out now: Prevent and Tame. Protest under (Self)Control
New book by Florian Hessdörfer, Andrea Pabst, Peter Ullrich is out, and free for download here or here (pdf). You can also order a copy at your local bookstore. In the book there’s also a chapter by...
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Twitter and the resignation of Germany’s minister of defense
Germanys extremely popular minister of defense Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned from office yesterday. There are two or three interesting aspects which make this resignation different from others....
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German police monitors Skype, GoogleMail and Facebook chat
The German government a while ago answered questions about expenditures by the federal ministry of home affairs for private service providers – hardly noticed by the English speaking world. The...
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One year later: German police unable to develop ‘state trojan’
One year after the Chaos Computer Club found and analysed an illegal trojan virus used by German police, the so-called “state trojan”, and one year after the German Federal Minister of Justice, Sabine...
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Hacker News Puzzle
It was good to see how much interest my two posts on details of police surveillance in Germany generated outside the country. In fact much more than in Germany itself. Thanks! I’ll try and post this...
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Naked Citizens – new documentary about surveillance technology
By accident I found this new documentary out about surveillance, police using drones, legally extracting information form phones, FinFisher, CCTV, the NSA, Wikileaks and new trends in surveillance...
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The German Inquiry on Mass Surveillance
The German parliament unanimously decided to have an inquiry on mass surveillance in March 2014. The elections were in September 2013, two months after the first Snowden revelations. (At a later point...
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