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Maurice Frank
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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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#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...
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January 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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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

🥲 🇩🇪 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 🖨️
January 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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🇩🇪 €29 ticket = Deutschlandticket
🧑‍⚖️ Exorbitant rents
🎙️ 20 Percent Podcast

The 20 Percent for Dec
17 from @mauricefrank.bsky.social !!
#344: €29 ticket upgrade, Sunday shopping, rents too high?
Episode 2 of our podcast is out
www.20percent.berlin
December 17, 2024 at 12:32 PM
👱‍♂️ 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...
#5: Trump and European data protection
But maybe there's an opportunity here
cybereurope.substack.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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-...
#4: Russia's latest hacks
The Kremlin's cyber-pals have performed some fancy attacks over the last few weeks
cybereurope.substack.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:26 AM
🧨 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
#340: New Year's Eve plan, Anti-A100 arson, sluggish start for Online-Anmeldung
We have a podcast
www.20percent.berlin
December 4, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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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
November 28, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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🏢 CDU wants rent regs
🚴 Cyclist killed
🧑‍⚕️ Digital doc records

The 20 Percent for Nov. 26 from @mauricefrank.bsky.social !
#338: Rent regulations, cyclist killed, online medical records
Who will save the ICC?
www.20percent.berlin
November 29, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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🏢 CDU wants rent regs
🚴 Cyclist killed
🧑‍⚕️ Digital doc records

The 20 Percent for Nov. 26 from @mauricefrank.bsky.social !
#338: Rent regulations, cyclist killed, online medical records
Who will save the ICC?
www.20percent.berlin
November 26, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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2-Hour Meeting Spent Thinking Up Hashtag Absolutely Nobody On Planet Earth Will Ever Use
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November 20, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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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...
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
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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How very rude
November 21, 2024 at 9:52 AM
tja
Es hapert vor allem an der Elektrifizierung des Verkehrs: Im neuesten Klimaschutz-Index schneiden 15 EU-Staaten besser ab als Deutschland. Lob gibt es für den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien hierzulande.
Umweltschutz: Deutschland rutscht im Klimaschutz-Ranking ab
Es hapert vor allem an der Elektrifizierung des Verkehrs: Im neuesten Klimaschutz-Index schneiden 15 EU-Staaten besser ab als Deutschland. Lob gibt es für den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien hierzulande.
www.spiegel.de
November 20, 2024 at 9:21 AM
🪧 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
#336: Budget cuts, Tschüss €29 ticket
Russian exiles protest war
www.20percent.berlin
November 19, 2024 at 2:13 PM
🇮🇱 Oct. 7 remembrances, demos
🛖 Rent prices, sigh
⚒️ The DDR would be 75
The 20 Percent for Oct. 8

www.20percent.berlin/p/324-octobe...
#324: October 7 demos, expensive rents, Stasi trial, GDR's birthday
Berlin to start training young people in Namibia
www.20percent.berlin
October 9, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Zelensky and Herzog visit Berlin on the same day, causing chaos. Who plans these things?
February 16, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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🗳️ Re-Election® Results
🚡 Public transport on-time
🎭 English theatre Berlin

Today's 20 Percent from @mauricefrank.bsky.social
#256: Re-Election® results, S- and U-Bahn pretty punctual, Tree art ban
Knifecrab's take on German doctors
open.substack.com
February 13, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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🚆Rail strike!
👫 Political intrigue!
🖥️ Private-sector digitalization!

Today's 20 Percent from @mauricefrank.bsky.social
#246: Rail strike, farmers in town, mayor's romance, digital survey
Berlin's oldest Kino saved!
open.substack.com
January 9, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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🗳️ Election re-do
🤖 ChatGPT and, ugh, BILD
🏪 Stores closed for XMAS

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

open.substack.com/pub/20prozen...
#240: Election do-over, BILD-GPT, start-ups, farmer-rage
Shop now to survive the holidays!
open.substack.com
December 19, 2023 at 12:11 PM
We have a comic!
December 8, 2023 at 2:07 PM
Some news... and that other €9 ticket @9eurofonds.de
December 5, 2023 at 1:12 PM
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🧑‍🦲 Scholz AfD deepfake
🛫 Build on Tempelhof?
👨‍🦰 JFK is a Berliner

Today's 20 Percent from @mauricefrank.bsky.social
#234: Deepfake Scholz, Tempelhof referendum, scooter flop, Deutschland tix for students
Two shopping Sundays this December.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2023 at 11:53 AM
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🚟Maglev pipe dream
🛴 More scooter hate
💶 Hands off that €60b

Today's 20 Percent from @mauricefrank.bsky.social
#232: Maglev train, lost €60 billion, no to e-scooters, Spandau occupation
It's X-mas market time
open.substack.com
November 21, 2023 at 12:47 PM
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🟧 Did Last Generation trick cops?
🚍 Not enough bus drivers
🚲 14 cyclists injured every day
#231: Last Generation tricking cops, fewer buses, Erdogan visit
And 14 cyclists are injured every day in Berlin
www.20percent.berlin
November 17, 2023 at 2:18 PM
Olympics 2036? Nein Danke. My newsletter.
🥡 Food sales tax ?
🤸‍♀️ 2036 Berlin Olympics?
📽️ Our most beautiful cinema

Today's 20 Percent from @mauricetfrank
#230: VAT up on eats? 2036 Olympics? Body cams? AI ads?
Berlin's most beautiful cinema turns 60
www.20percent.berlin
November 14, 2023 at 1:10 PM