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#FreeSoftware developers helped make #Android what it is today. #Google set the tone at the start by making it a more open ecosystem than #iOS and others. We saw #AOSP and its #OpenSource core, and we contributed code, built essential libraries and indispensable apps for the #platform because it was more #open. Now Google wants to take that way from everyone by becoming the sole arbiter of what apps run

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Bundesverfassungsgericht: Export von Panzern nach Israel erlaubt

Deutschland muss Rüstungslieferungen nach Israel nicht stoppen. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat die Klage eines Mannes aus Gaza abgewiesen. Er sah seine Grundrechte durch die Exporte verletzt. Von A. Lagmöller und M. Nordhardt.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundesverfassungsgericht-waffen-exporte-israel-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Bundesverfassungsgericht #Israel

Strafprozess wird neu aufgerollt: War es doch Mord aus Rassismus?

Der Geflüchtete Mahdi ben Nacer starb durch einen Kopfschuss. Wegen rechtlicher Fehler muss der Prozess neu aufgerollt werden - dabei wird auch eine mögliche rassistische Tatmotivation eine Rolle spielen. Von Max Bauer und Alena Lagmöller.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bgh-urteil-prozess-neu-rassismus-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#BGH #Rassismus #Rechtsextremismus

A few days ago, a client’s data center (well, actually a server room) "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.

I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an alert.

The office was closed for the holidays, but I contacted the IT manager anyway. He was home sick with a serious family issue, but he got moving.

To make a long story short: the company deals in gold and precious metals. They have an underground bunker with two-meter thick walls. They were targeted by a professional gang. They used a tactic seen in similar hits: they identify the main power line, tamper with it at night, and send a massive voltage spike through it.

The goal is to fry all alarm and surveillance systems. Even if battery-backed, they rarely survive a surge like that. Thieves count on the fact that during holidays, owners are away and fried systems can't send alerts. Monitoring companies often have reduced staff and might not notice the "silence" immediately.

That is exactly what happened here. But there is a "but": they didn't account for my Uptime Kuma instance monitoring their MikroTik router, installed just weeks ago. Since it is an external check, it flagged the lack of response from all IPs without needing an internal alert to be triggered from the inside.

The team rushed to the site and found the mess. Luckily, they found an emergency electrical crew to bypass the damage and restore the cameras and alarms. They swapped the fried server UPS with a spare and everything came back up.

The police warned that the chances of the crew returning the next night to "finish" the job were high, though seeing the systems back online would likely make them move on. They also warned that thieves sometimes break in just to destroy servers to wipe any video evidence.

Nothing happened in the end. But in the meantime, I had to sync all their data off-site (thankfully they have dual 1Gbps FTTH), set up an emergency cluster, and ensure everything was redundant.

Never rely only on internal monitoring. Never.

#IT #SysAdmin #HorrorStories #ITHorrorStories #Monitoring

Die Einführung der Wehrpflicht hat Erinnerungen an meine Wehrdienstzeit geweckt und ich habe diese aufgeschrieben. Es ist ein langer Text geworden, die Lesezeit beträgt etwa eine halbe Stunde.
Bringt also etwas Zeit und Ruhe zum Lesen mit.
Hier entlang: https://33dbm.de/blog/2025/12/mein-wehrdienst

Danke an @tschapajew für das Lektorat.