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But I guess kickbacks for using something created by state employees are not as good as for something new from a private enterprise (with blockchain! - they silently removed it, when the CCC called that out and now the CEO claims: "we've never used blockchain").
This is amazing. There should be hacker clubs in each country double checking all suspicious public procurements.
The only thing I wish, is that it was called "KAOS Computer Club," and that they have a picture of Bernie Kopell in their entryway.
http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2016/07/an-interview-with...
It's also open source with a generous licence.
Why didn't Germany use that? Corruption.
Ireland has a Covid19 tracker app that can easily intergrate with other EU covid apps. NearForm the Developer sells a branded version for a million. It's also open source with a generous licence. Why didn't Germany use that? Corruption.
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I'm part of the CCC in Hamburg We will move to stockholm and I'm thinking of creating one :)
Good luck. In countries like Germany or Norway there is a culture of hacker organisations sustaining themselves financially via their members. This culture doesn't exist in Sweden, and the spaces and organisations that aren't subsidised by government funds or universities all disappear after a few years. (Source: Lived in all three countries, was active in such organisations in all three countries)
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My understanding as an outsider who has never been to the US is that the US hacker scene is quite different. One notable difference is a much closer connection to e.g. intelligence services. On the other hand, the relationship to democratic processes, as well as the stance on state/federal involvement in IT problem spaces, seems to differ between Germany and the US. Again: I'm an outsider and would actually like to h…
> One notable difference is a much closer connection to e.g. intelligence services. Some CCC hackers had a pretty good relationship with the Russian KGB. They got information about a wide range of US military secrets including details about the Space Defense Initiative (SDI). They were so successful that they wound up dead and a movie was made about them. Since then the CCC has to be heavily infiltrated by all kinds…
Infiltrating the CCC would be akin to infiltrating Antifa. Sure, you can get close to a group and learn their secrets, but you can't get close to the center of it because it has none.
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I'm part of the CCC in Hamburg We will move to stockholm and I'm thinking of creating one :)
Check out https://www.blivande.com/ Burners, artists and (I think) hackers doing stuff together in Stockholm. (I'm not in sthlm but part of the Scandinavian burning scene)
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yes and its super easy to just create random valid qr codes: https://wolf128058.gitlab.io/schmudo2go/ also they don't have any rate limit on the sms service... so anybody can build a loop and call the sms endpoint... More fails: - https://github.com/mame82/misc/blob/master/luca_traceIds.md - https://lucatrack.de/ - development private and public key in the repo ( not harmful but a bad sign) - more that i forgot
What do these QR codes do?
So the health department could call you.
This was done by SMS but the verification of an account does not check against that SMS verification but its just a simple else/if on the client.
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There are enough diss tracks and mentions of fanta4 in german hip hop I always found them whack...
jein
Almost all of my friends did not consider fanta 4 to be rap music but rather pop music :)
There is so much incompetency in governmental IT/software decisions and software it's actually sad. Is it a product of smart people simply not working in this sector or corruption?. It seems from the outside to be filled with imbeciles masquerading as administrators. We need to somehow make the government way more accountable, if only there was an organization that could do that, we could call it the media.
Was initially stoked and honored to be considered, but the longer I thought about it, the more uncomfortable and heavy the thought of how it all worked started to sour me to the entire idea.
Never realized how pervasive the whole practice was til then. Thought it was a rumor or story... Turns out...