Today’s quote is from Mike Kuketz’s Fediverse: Those in control of data are also in control of society. Digitisation must take this into account and understand data protection as social value. Data protection and digitalisation are not incompatible though many people believe this. In my daily practice, I encounter people who try to play data protection and digitisation off against each …Read more

This picture is for all the people I have had discussions with in recent years about Digitisation in general or, more specifically, about the integration of tablets or notebooks within a corporate network. My recommendation then and now: Zero Trust! Isolate and segment potentially insecure, closed-source AD infrastructures! Keep smartphones, tablets or laptops out! This also applies to unknown, …Read more

This picture shows my home office in the year 2007. At the bottom left, you can see my last productive bare-metal Microsoft installation. A WinXP, Office 2003 and Visual Studio .NET installation. In the middle above and below you can find my primary system of choice back in those days, an openSUSE Linux. At least till the release of the iPhone a year later in 2008. This was the initial spark for …Read more

The next XOJO User Meeting (in german) is scheduled on Friday, 5th Feb. 2021 at 1800 LT. Topics Let’s kickoff and plan 2021 Of course everything as rough orientation. Anybody with an interesting project or topic is invited to join and give a presentation. Duration of the Meeting: approx 45-60 Min followed by smalltalk with open end, Chatham House Rule applies. Link to Conference-room: …Read more

Today I’ve found this quote in Nitter (Twitter-Proxy): The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles. To the unkown author: You nailed it! Read more

I am in urgend need to talk with my Editor. At the slightest mistake she snarls at me from the side. It’s not possible to work under these conditions ;-) Read more

Yesterday and today I’ve noticed the author malvuln. He has uncovered vulnerabilities for 14 malware and backdoor applications. Yes, you are correct: He has found vulnerabilities in malware and backdoors, practically with proof-of-concepts to reproduce. No need to emphasise, that’s all Windows malware we’re talking about. There is no indication whether he contacted the respective …Read more

The new year 2021 starts off quietly with original English Breakfast Tea and a stack of new books. I have long been looking forward to the 3rd edition of the book by Oliver Liebel, which was published kinda fortnite before Christmas. My intentions are getting more familier with orchestration and automation of containers. The second Ansible book tells the same story. The last book within the stack …Read more

I would like to wish all my customers, business partners, friends and acquaintances a happy Holiday Season. Please stay healthy! Wherever you are, cosily couch in yourselves and keep the necessary peace of mind during the Corona-Lockdown. May it be like an admin-friend told me recently: Think positive, stay negative! I am winding down my blog activities till January and devoting myself to the …Read more

Last XOJO User Meeting (in german) this year is scheduled on upcoming Friday, 11th 2020 at 1800 LT. Topics New Xojo Version since out last Meeting Apple Silicon and Xojo Lookback and Outlook for the next year Of course everything as rough orientation. Anybody with an interesting project or topic is invited to join and give a presentation. Duration of the Meeting: approx 45-60 Min followed by …Read more