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"In Germany there is no law that could force us to submit to a gag order or to implement a backdoor." meanwhile "Cock.li e-mail server seized by German authorities, admin announces" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/cock-li-e-mail-se... -edit- to: all yes I realize seizure is not a gag order nor a backdoor. but the whole article spends thousand word praising how privacy is so much more safe in Germany and ho…
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774152 for details and analysis.
>Cock.li was reportedly used last week to send a bogus bomb threat e-mail from "madbomber@cock.li" to several school districts nationwide, which led to the closure of all schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. I don't see what that has to do with dick-jokes being the reason
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>(just buy them at any shop/gas station, no info/ID required By law, they have to request your name, adress and DOB before you can activate the card (usually not done in store, but online at home). They don't need to validate them though (no ID required) and it's not illegal to make false statements :).
Huh, they didn't ask me for anything, I just bought the card and it worked as soon as I inserted it into the phone...
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https://www.alditalk.de/surfen/ Aldi Talk. Coverage is good, speed is okay. 4G is supported in the main cities. Delivery is only possible within Germany, but you can grab the SIM card at any Aldi for 12.99€ including 10€ credit. Top up with a 5€ voucher brought at Aldi (ask at the register).
Last time I used them, I had to register it. I did through phone with a fake address but they disabled the card some weeks later...
Meanwhile, Germany's largest ISP (Deutsche Telekom) is handing over all data of its daughter companies in neighboring countries (in many of which Deutsche Telekom is in a monopoly position - handling most of the Internet traffic) to Germany's intelligence agencies and has supposedly been doing so for about a decade already.
Germany is doing a lot of the things its politicians have criticized the US for.
Aaah, Germany - the leader of privacy across the globe, the country where you're legally required to give up all your personal information in order to call someone from a prepaid phone card you just bought for 5 euro. And where you're not allowed to open up your wifi hotspot because someone might download an mp3 with it.
> give up all your personal information in order to call someone from a prepaid phone card you just bought for 5 euro. That is flat out untrue. I actually was surprised how easy it was to get prepaid SIM cards (just buy them at any shop/gas station, no info/ID required), load and use them however and whenever I want (also 15 Euros for 5GB 3G and works in USB data sticks, pretty nice). Illegal to have open Wifi, that…
No, it is not illegal per se to have an open Wifi, but there is the dreaded paragraph of "Mitstörerhaftung" - that means in lots of cases if someone does something illegal over your open Wifi (say copyright violation), the person who runs the open Wifi will be liable for it.
https://tutanota.uservoice.com/forums/237921-general/suggest...
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jun/58
Emphasis on the "no".
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> give up all your personal information in order to call someone from a prepaid phone card you just bought for 5 euro. That is flat out untrue. I actually was surprised how easy it was to get prepaid SIM cards (just buy them at any shop/gas station, no info/ID required), load and use them however and whenever I want (also 15 Euros for 5GB 3G and works in USB data sticks, pretty nice). Illegal to have open Wifi, that…
> Illegal to have open Wifi, that is true :-) (I think it's a 125 Euro fine) No, it is not illegal per se to have an open Wifi, but there is the dreaded paragraph of "Mitstörerhaftung" - that means in lots of cases if someone does something illegal over your open Wifi (say copyright violation), the person who runs the open Wifi will be liable for it.
But in general, yes, it's purely a matter of civil law.
[1] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/englisch_bgb....
"In Germany there is no law that could force us to submit to a gag order or to implement a backdoor." meanwhile "Cock.li e-mail server seized by German authorities, admin announces" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/cock-li-e-mail-se... -edit- to: all yes I realize seizure is not a gag order nor a backdoor. but the whole article spends thousand word praising how privacy is so much more safe in Germany and ho…
Seizure can be made public and email server provider take actions to protect against seizure. This is how it should work. Ability to force gag order or implement a backdoor is really disgrace in democratic society.
And how might that be done. The obvious answer would be encrypt the hard drive but what's preventing law enforcement from doing a cold boot attack?