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New comment by h4ckerle in "We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries"

h4ckerle — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 05:57:05 +0000

Don't forget Stuxnet which crossed the airgap via infecting USB Devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

New comment by h4ckerle in "Death by AI"

h4ckerle — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 17:32:06 +0000

WTF? Thanks for the notice.

New comment by h4ckerle in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

h4ckerle — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:06:56 +0000

From what I've seen, Austria also does this pretty well, with everything being on xyz.gov.at. The problem I see for germany is that the principle of subsidiarity is taken very seriously here. Everything is decided at the lowest sensible level of government. Consequently, there are many very tiny local authorities that have to manage things independently and lack IT admins.

New comment by h4ckerle in "CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe"

h4ckerle — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:29:20 +0000

Well there is no nobel price in economics[1] so probably a nobel peace price for ending trade wars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_riksbanks_pris_i_ekon...

New comment by h4ckerle in "Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?"

h4ckerle — Tue, 13 May 2025 22:40:07 +0000

As a european I again find it crazy what kinds of insecure stuff the banking industry in the US does. Chip+PIN arrived long after they did here, SMS Tan is still a thing while EU Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) forbid this in 2018, 7 years ago. Many transactions are still authenticated via signatures on paper cheques, you can use your credit card without a second factor (also regulated by PSD2). I just can't understand why they continue doing this, when I'd assume fixing this would cost less than what fraud must be costing them today.

New comment by h4ckerle in "US Government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button"

h4ckerle — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:51:13 +0000

This works very well here. Just visit the website of thing you want canceled, scroll to the footer, click vertrag kündigen and you get a form to cancel, I have done it a few times now and it's 1000x better than searching in some customer portal or even worse calling. Good for the US.

New comment by h4ckerle in "Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees"

h4ckerle — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:01:18 +0000

Yes. The court voided privacy shield in a ruling known as Schrems-II. The commission then created the Data Privacy Framework which is esentially the same as privacy shield against the will of the parliament, re-enabling transatlantic data transfer.

New comment by h4ckerle in "Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?"

h4ckerle — Sat, 11 May 2024 15:59:57 +0000

As always with laws this is very location specific. In germany there is a very clear clause about patents not applying to "Actions carried out in the private sphere for non-commercial purposes" (§11 PatG, own translation)

New comment by h4ckerle in "Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora"

h4ckerle — Sat, 11 May 2024 14:39:56 +0000

OT but I didn't realise until now the Hunsrück was a real place... I always assumed it was invented for Werwölfe von Düsterwald!

New comment by h4ckerle in "U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers"

h4ckerle — Wed, 08 May 2024 08:35:49 +0000

A general strike has a lot of power. Which is why they are banned in many countries.

New comment by h4ckerle in "Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked"

h4ckerle — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:36:41 +0000

This is not true in germany where FritzBoxes are most prevalent.

New comment by h4ckerle in "ArchiveTeam is downloading and saving content from Blogger"

h4ckerle — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 19:15:14 +0000

I don't think it will. Discovery in Archives has been a problem forever and with more content made today than ever before it is becoming ever more difficult.

New comment by h4ckerle in "Berlin's indoor pools"

h4ckerle — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:11:00 +0000

I don't know where you live or what experiences you've made but I just had a look into my municipalities online appointment system and there are 5 slots free to book just for tommorow.

New comment by h4ckerle in "Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working drivers for Linux?"

h4ckerle — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 23:01:13 +0000

I actually agree with your argument, but what does any of this have to do with who owns the means of production? Because that's everything socialism is about.

New comment by h4ckerle in "How would you say “She said goodbye too many times before.” in Latin?"

h4ckerle — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 19:11:31 +0000

Shortest translation that comes to my mind would be: "Ich fordre dich zum Trunk." Which IMO translates the original sentence pretty well. You could add a "heraus" at the end but as a native I would not say that it is necessary. Also the Word "Trunk" sounds a bit antiquated but Duden still lists it, therefore I'd say it's fair game.

New comment by h4ckerle in "Spectrolite – Mac app to make colorful risograph prints and zines more easily"

h4ckerle — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 14:28:31 +0000

After doing a bit of dig-ing (haha) it seems like quad9 sees the site as malicious... Sent a false positive report to them and the upstream info provider.

New comment by h4ckerle in "Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018)"

h4ckerle — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:53:00 +0000

N26 is also infamous for being the go-to-bank for cybercriminals. That may be because they are easier to fool than your local bank branch where most financial stuff happens in Germany, but my impression is, that they don't care...

New comment by h4ckerle in "Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)"

h4ckerle — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:10:25 +0000

Not OP, but I use xkill semi regularly (like 1-2 times a week) to check whether an app is running in xwayland or natively...

New comment by h4ckerle in "Fifty years ago, a fire ripped through the National Personnel Records Center"

h4ckerle — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 06:35:38 +0000

The Idea of the swiss guard standing behind some teenagers using their smartphones to photograph old books sounds hilarious...

New comment by h4ckerle in "Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?"

h4ckerle — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 20:50:17 +0000

Wait, you are situated in Flensburg but not shipping to EU? That seems rather interesting... Do you also manufacture in germany or have you sourced that out?