Ich habe beim Lobbyregister des deutschen Bundestags per Mail angefragt, unter welcher Lizenz ihre API und ihre Daten stehen – es ist nämlich keine angegeben. Kein OpenData, kein Creative Commons oder ähnliches.

Kennt da vielleicht jemand wen, die da jemand kennt...?

I teach cybersecurity. And I genuinely don't know what to tell my students after this one. Federal reviewers spent years trying to get basic encryption documentation from Microsoft for its GCC High government cloud. They couldn't get it. One reviewer called the system a "pile of spaghetti pies," with data traveling from point A to point B the way you'd get from Chicago to New York: a bus to St. Louis, a ferry to Pittsburgh, and a flight to Newark. Each leg is a potential hijacking. They knew this. They said this out loud in writing. Then they approved it anyway in December 2024, because too many agencies were already using it. 🔐 That's not a security review. That's a hostage negotiation. Two things in this story should make every CISO and CIO uncomfortable:

🧩 Microsoft built its federal cloud on top of decades of legacy code that it apparently can't fully document itself
👮 "Digital escorts" often ex-military with minimal software engineering backgrounds are the firewall between Chinese engineers working on the system and classified U.S. networks 🤦🏻‍♂️

The scariest line in the whole ProPublica investigation isn't the "pile of shit" quote. It's this: FedRAMP determined that refusing authorization wasn't feasible because agencies were already using the product. Read that again. The security review process reached a conclusion based on sunk cost, not risk. Ex Post Facto Fallacy

If that logic holds, the compliance framework is just documentation theater. And right now, CISA is being hollowed out, so there are fewer people left to even run the theater.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/federal-cyber-experts-called-microsofts-cloud-a-pile-of-shit-approved-it-anyway/
#Cybersecurity #Microsoft #FedRAMP #Leadership #RiskManagement #security #privacy #cloud #infosec

Der Dieselpreisanstieg liegt aktuell bei 66 Cent.

Als die #Bauern auf die Barrikaden gegangen sind und von existenzbedrohenden Preisen geschrien haben ging es um den Entfall des Agrardiesel-Zuschusses in Höhe von rund 22 Cent. Drei mal weniger als jetzt und kein Bauer Demonstriert…

Ging es damals gar nicht um den Diesel Preis, sondern nur um die Stimmung in der Presse gegen die Grünen?

#dieGrünen #Diesel #autokorrektur

All of them have declined.

https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116178291534758736

Results from our Third-Party Partner project #TILDE are here!

Search for health information online and the results will be ranked by relevance. Are they trustworthy? Do they represent diverse viewpoints?

The TILDE team built a health search system on the #OWI that goes beyond relevance. It extracts medical entities from 200,000 health-related web pages, normalises them to clinical ontologies, and implements a hybrid search engine.

More: https://openwebsearch.eu/tilde-results/