Category Archives: Germany

Hackenings: KiCAD, Science, DevOps, and Cyber

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This week in [Hackenings], we’ve got a full roster of interesting upcoming events scattered all over the world. Can’t afford airfare to India, but Dublin is in the next county over? We’ve got you covered.

KiCad in Bangalore

IKP EDEN, in Bangalore, is hosting an Introduction to KiCad workshop on Sunday, Nov 13 from 10:00-2:00 pm. If you’re just getting started with PCB layout, or just want a quickstart learning KiCad, Hackaday contributor [Anool Mahidharia] will be there to show you how! Sign up on the link above, and bring your laptop with KiCad already installed.

Science in Dublin

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Mark Zuckerberg to be Tried by Munich Court for Tolerating Offending Content

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By Owais Sultan

It’s a bad time for Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook

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EU court: Site operators can log visitors’ IP address for protection against attacks

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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that the German government can collect and keep IP addresses of visitors to websites operated by German Federal institutions, in order to protect those sites against cyberattacks (e.g. denial-of-service attacks) The question of whether they should has been asked by German Pirate Party politician Patrick Breyer, and the Bundesgerichtshof (German Federal Court of Justice) turned to the CJEU for a definitive answer. “Furthermore, the … More → Continue reading EU court: Site operators can log visitors’ IP address for protection against attacks→

Germany tells Facebook to delete and stop saving WhatsApp user data

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German Federal Intelligence Service violates laws, dodges supervision

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The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has been illegally collecting data through mass surveillance tools, storing it in databases that should not exist, and has repeatedly prevented the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) from supervising their actions. A summary and analysis of a classified report, filed after former Commissioner for Data Protection Peter Schaar sent his representatives to inspect the joint BND/NSA-station in Bad Aibling (southern Germany) in the wake … More → Continue reading German Federal Intelligence Service violates laws, dodges supervision→