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Give them the finger

‘Datenschleuder‘, the magazine of the Chaos Computer Club, is providing its readers with a foil with the fingerprint of the German minister of the interior, Wolfgang Schäuble. Simply stick the flexible flap over your finger, and as far as the fingerprint readers are concerned, you are him. Need more: simply apply some wood-glue to the

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No Automatic License Plate Recognition in Germany

As I told you before, I believe the German Bundesverfassungsgericht is the one thing differentiating Germany from the police state the rest of Europe is becoming. They just annulled the laws of Hessen and Schleswig-Holstein dealing with Automatic License Plate Recognition.

Hurray for the court!

Dog shit

After the events in Germany, some news from my own country. Politicians in the city of Tilburg (pop 200k) want to record all dog DNA so they can track the origin of all dog shit on the streets.

Yes, they are serious, and no, I am not making this up. But then: if you have nothing

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Today, we are all Germans

I was embarrassingly proven wrong, and I’m sitting here loving every second of it. As you remember, I was on stage in Berlin a few years ago telling people I felt we had lost the war defending privacy. It now appears we may be able to hold on to a little bit of ground, at

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