GAFAM. Five companies that know more about you than your loved ones do
Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. You use their services every day - often without even knowing it. For free, but not without a price.
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"We kill people based on metadata". Why who you talk to says more than what you say
The content of a conversation can be encrypted. Who called, whom, when and from where - that remains. And from this seemingly dull information, a whole life can be read.
Read moreTor in Germany. What we really know about the BND, the NSA and the German police
Germany is one of the pillars of the Tor network. It is also the country where the NSA monitored a Tor server run by a student in Erlangen, where the BND tapped cables in Frankfurt, and where police in 2024 de-anonymised a user of the network. Here is what follows from all this - without conspiracy theories.
Read moreThe FBI versus Tor. How people in the darknet were really caught
Silk Road, Freedom Hosting, Playpen, Operation Onymous, AlphaBay. Every time, the headlines screamed that "Tor has been broken". Every time, the truth was more interesting - and more instructive.
Read moreSecurity through isolation. The story of Qubes OS
A Polish researcher who embarrassed Microsoft in 2006 came to the conclusion that no system can be written without bugs. So she decided to build one in which bugs do not matter. Today Edward Snowden calls it the best operating system there is.
Read moreCincinnatus, who could not wait any longer
How one program that never got installed nearly buried the biggest leak in intelligence history - and what the Edward Snowden affair teaches us.
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