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Take care of your boarding pass

date Fri Jan 08, 2016 category Privacy
tags Awareness Privacy Data Boardingpass

During the last weeks before Christmas, I found myself traveling more than usual throughout Germany and Europe. While I was waiting at the airports I recognized some typical behaviors that passengers showed before and after the flight. Before the boarding begins the flight ticket is handled like a p...

Steam Data Leak Was Not A Hack

date Sat Dec 26, 2015 category Data Leaks
tags Security Privacy Data Steam Leak Cache

Yesterday at around 10:00 pm, I noticed that something was wrong with Steam. The interface suddenly presented itself in different languages and kept switching. I tried to switch back to english but got an error message that something went wrong. A little bit of poking around in the settings showe...