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Posts by Maurice Frank

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#6: Europe's biggest carmaker's security fail I’m still rubbing my eyes: Between Christmas and New Year’s, Germany’s Chaos Computer Club revealed that Volkswagen left geolocation data on about 800,000 cars exposed for anyone to find who’s spent m...

VW is Germany's biggest company in terms of revenue. Yet VW somehow failed to implement the most basic security controls.

👀 Freely accessible AWS credentials
👀 Unencrypted, un-truncated geolocation data
👀 Sloppy password management

Details in my newsletter 👇

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Hi @mauricefrank.bsky.social regarding yesterday's @20percentberlin.bsky.social ep: open.spotify.com/episode/1Uwl...

My naturalization appointment is next week 🎉 (applied May 2024, follow up "yes I still work" in Dec)

Ironically I DO have to print the invitation + FDGO to sign on site

🥲 🇩🇪 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 🖨️

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#344: €29 ticket upgrade, Sunday shopping, rents too high? Episode 2 of our podcast is out

🇩🇪 €29 ticket = Deutschlandticket
🧑‍⚖️ Exorbitant rents
🎙️ 20 Percent Podcast

The 20 Percent for Dec
17 from @mauricefrank.bsky.social !!

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#5: Trump and European data protection But maybe there's an opportunity here

👱‍♂️ The Trump 2.0 administration could withdraw from the EU–US Data Privacy Framework implemented by Joe Biden. This could disrupt EU-US data transfers and expose EU citizens to increased surveillance by US intelligence agencies. My new newsletter:
cybereurope.substack.com/p/5-trump-an...

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#4: Russia's latest hacks The Kremlin's cyber-pals have performed some fancy attacks over the last few weeks

Over the past year or so, I've been branching out into cybersecurity - slowly beginning to work as a freelance consultant and pen tester. And I've started a newsletter. It's helping me explore the depth and breath of the field.

cybereurope.substack.com/p/4-russias-...

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#340: New Year's Eve plan, Anti-A100 arson, sluggish start for Online-Anmeldung We have a podcast

🧨 New Year's Eve safety plan
🚌 Self-driving buses in 2027
🔥Cement trucks in flames!
🎙️ Our new podcast!

The latest 20% Berlin newsletter - and pod!

www.20percent.berlin/p/340-new-ye...

@20percentberlin.bsky.social

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Beautiful night celebrating The Poetry Project refugee writers collective, founded by the indefatigable SPIEGEL correspondent Susanne Koelbl. Anthology out now with Verbrecher Verlag

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#338: Rent regulations, cyclist killed, online medical records Who will save the ICC?

🏢 CDU wants rent regs
🚴 Cyclist killed
🧑‍⚕️ Digital doc records

The 20 Percent for Nov. 26 from @mauricefrank.bsky.social !

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2-Hour Meeting Spent Thinking Up Hashtag Absolutely Nobody On Planet Earth Will Ever Use

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2-Hour Meeting Spent Thinking Up Hashtag Absolutely Nobody On Planet Earth Will Ever Use -The Onion

2-Hour Meeting Spent Thinking Up Hashtag Absolutely Nobody On Planet Earth Will Ever Use
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German architecture award rescinded over British artist’s Israel boycott vow Schelling Architecture Foundation refuses to give James Bridle the €10k prize after signing of open letter

Refusing to award a prize named after an SA & NSDAP member, intimately tied to Nazi socialites, to a non-German artist who called for a boycott of Israeli institutions in light of what the UN calls genocide might just set a new benchmark for hypocrisy in Germany.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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How very rude

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tja

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#336: Budget cuts, Tschüss €29 ticket Russian exiles protest war

🪧 Russians against the war
🚇 RIP €29 ticket
🚮 Trash summit
🤖 AI start-ups

Today's 20% Berlin newsletter!

www.20percent.berlin/p/336-budget...

@20percentberlin.bsky.social @drewportnoy.bsky.social

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#324: October 7 demos, expensive rents, Stasi trial, GDR's birthday Berlin to start training young people in Namibia

🇮🇱 Oct. 7 remembrances, demos
🛖 Rent prices, sigh
⚒️ The DDR would be 75
The 20 Percent for Oct. 8

www.20percent.berlin/p/324-octobe...

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Zelensky and Herzog visit Berlin on the same day, causing chaos. Who plans these things?

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#256: Re-Election® results, S- and U-Bahn pretty punctual, Tree art ban Knifecrab's take on German doctors

🗳️ Re-Election® Results
🚡 Public transport on-time
🎭 English theatre Berlin

Today's 20 Percent from @mauricefrank.bsky.social

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#246: Rail strike, farmers in town, mayor's romance, digital survey Berlin's oldest Kino saved!

🚆Rail strike!
👫 Political intrigue!
🖥️ Private-sector digitalization!

Today's 20 Percent from @mauricefrank.bsky.social

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#240: Election do-over, BILD-GPT, start-ups, farmer-rage Shop now to survive the holidays!

🗳️ Election re-do
🤖 ChatGPT and, ugh, BILD
🏪 Stores closed for XMAS

Today's 20 Percent from @mauricefrank.bsky.social

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We have a comic!

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Some news... and that other €9 ticket @9eurofonds.de

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#234: Deepfake Scholz, Tempelhof referendum, scooter flop, Deutschland tix for students Two shopping Sundays this December.

🧑‍🦲 Scholz AfD deepfake
🛫 Build on Tempelhof?
👨‍🦰 JFK is a Berliner

Today's 20 Percent from @mauricefrank.bsky.social

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#232: Maglev train, lost €60 billion, no to e-scooters, Spandau occupation It's X-mas market time

🚟Maglev pipe dream
🛴 More scooter hate
💶 Hands off that €60b

Today's 20 Percent from @mauricefrank.bsky.social

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#231: Last Generation tricking cops, fewer buses, Erdogan visit And 14 cyclists are injured every day in Berlin

🟧 Did Last Generation trick cops?
🚍 Not enough bus drivers
🚲 14 cyclists injured every day

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Olympics 2036? Nein Danke. My newsletter.

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"Yes I approve the draft of this PDF, send it to the printers"

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#228: Palestinian demo, Deutschland Ticket, Tesla, Kristallnacht Will refugee homes finally get proper WiFi?

🚨 Middle East protest peaceful
🇩🇪 Deutschland ticket saved
🛺 Cheap Tesla?

Today's 20 Percent from @mauricefrank.bsky.social frank

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#227: No Kreuzberg greenspace, building on Tempelhof, cops investigating cops And shop closing hours used to be way, way worse

🚵‍♂️ Landwehrkanal greenspace stopped
🛫 Building on Tempelhof?
⏰ Shops used to be closed more

Today's 20 percent!

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#226: Berlin prices not the worst, Späti crisis, thieves drive into mall Last chance to see a Kreuzberg museum — for free

🚲 Ya bike got nicked!
🍾 Spätis suffering
🖼️ Musem Weekend, y'all!

Today's 20 Percent from @mauricetfrank

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