Not like there have been no initiatives. But given that our biggest party also sued after someone pointed out their technical fuck-ups it is not likely to happen.

Yes, because any circumvention of any form of security, be it as useless as a hardcoded default password, is considered a crime in German law. So even the discovery of a security flaw puts you with one foot in jail, because technically you did something you are not supposed to.

That is if you’d live in a place with an open attitude toward new technologies.

You are braver than I am because here in Germany usually people get sued for reporting security vulnerabilities.

Guess who recently asked a company if he could get access to the API they use to load stuff in their frontend from their backend and got told “Nope and btw scraping is against our TOS”?

Well, if you won’t give it to me the info that you provide anyway the easy way, I can still take it the hard way. 🤷‍♂️

Recycling companies?

There might be some old Ladas around.

[…] and what owners can do next.

Sell their Porsche and buy a car that can’t be locked remotely?

To show that this whitewashing is an international problem I would like to refer to the page of our “beloved” Chancellor Friedrich Merz. For years the running gag (and fact) about him was that his German article starts with “Friedrich Merz is a lobbyist and politician”. In this order. Lobbyist first, politician second. Since he’s been elected the first mention of him working as a lobbyist has been relegated to the end of the second paragraph.

Well, I am impressed by what it can do. I am unimpressed by what higher ups claim it can do.

What do you use the Trackpads for? I never felt the need so far and always wondered why they are there in the first place.

I guess Daddy Trump gets his wish afterall. Spineless cowards …

Increasingly so, the more experienced I get…

Knowledge is a curse!

Social Security […] gets called a “pyramid scheme”

I assume people arguing this also don’t have any other form of insurances?

Yes, we have stuff like HTTPS nowadays, but I think that given a certain importance of an application, transfered data should be encrypted on the application level as well.

Uhm, why not go to true and trusted Wikipedia? TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook

They most likely did in a later commit. However the commit adding it can not be removed as OP said. So in order for git to be able to work properly the file is still in the repository in case someone wants to check out a commit where it still was present.

You are confusing security with privacy. But keep on ranting if you like.

And how is the central server supposed to know anything when every message it transmits is verifiably e2e encrypted?

Unfortunately not.