Some days ago I was asked to set up a tomcat server for SSL. You’d think this is a no brainer. And it actually is when you proceed along the paved path. But if you deviate only a little, you are in big trouble. I solved the trouble I got in, and here is my [...]
I just watched a german video about the total control through the BKA (a German organisation comparable to the FBI). The attempts to control everything and everybody is based on the common misconception, that more security technology means more security. Often the opposite is true. I don’t even want to talk about the ‘Bundestrojaner’, malware [...]
Do you know Maslows pyramid of Needs? No? Great, because it is all wrong anyway. At least the pyramid part is wrong. But chances are even if you don’t know Maslow and his pyramid you might be using it, and probably using the part that is wrong. So let’s start with the pyramid. In 1954 [...]
