Lessons Learned on Electronic Napkins

On the Way to Free(ing) Education Massive open online courses are the vogue of the season when it comes to discussing the future of university-level education. But we’re only starting […]

Russia’s Surveillance State

Privacy International, Agentura.Ru, the Russian secret services watchdog, and Citizen Lab have joined forces to launch a new project entitled ‘Russia’s Surveillance State’. The aims of the project are to […]

Long Live the Protocoletariat!

We’re winning! The future looks like network politics! Wait, what the hell are network politics and how do they work? Is that like the Pirate Party, or the IETF, or […]

Let Me Answer That For You

Adventures in Mobile Paging In the last years, mobile security and specifically GSM has been attacked in many different ways. It was demonstrated how to sniff and crack traffic, how […]

Safecast: DIY & Citizen-Sensing of Radiation

Empowering citizen in the wake of Fukushima triple-meltdown disaster The triple meltdown of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in March last year and the release of radioactive material that […]

GSM: Cell Phone Network Review

262 42 – The full spectrum Did you notice 262 42 in your mobile phone network search list at the last CCC events? Did you and your friends buy SIM […]

SCADA Strangelove

How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love Nuclear Plants Modern civilization unconditionally depends on information systems. It is paradoxical but true that ICS/SCADA systems are the most insecure systems […]

Certificate Authority Collapse

Will the EU Succeed in Regulating HTTPS? Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) has evolved into the de facto standard for secure web browsing. But in the security community, it has […]