E-Plus schreibt Pressemitteilungsgeschichte

Julian —  24. February 2014 — 2 Comments

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Weltpremiere: E-Plus Gruppe und WhatsApp schließen Partnerschaft

Die E-Plus Gruppe schreibt Mobilfunkgeschichte: Das Düsseldorfer Unternehmen kooperiert künftig mit dem mobilen Messaging-Dienst WhatsApp. Es ist die erste Mobile Virtual Network Operator-Partnerschaft weltweit, die WhatsApp mit einem Mobilfunkanbieter eingeht. Die Kooperation durchbricht die bisherige Grenze zwischen Over-the-Top-Playern und Netzbetreibern. Beide Unternehmen werden bald das exklusive WhatsApp-Angebot im E-Plus-Netz präsentieren. WhatsApp verfügt alleine in Deutschland über mehr als 30 Millionen Nutzer.

Zusammen mit E-Plus bietet WhatsApp seinen Nutzern künftig ein attraktives Mobilfunkprodukt. Damit erschließt sich die E-Plus Gruppe eine überaus datenaffine Kundengruppe und baut ihr datenzentriertes Geschäftsmodell weiter aus. Diese nächste Generation moderner Partnerschaften bildet einen wichtigen Faktor für das weitere profitable Wachstum im Markt für mobile Daten.

„WhatsApp ist heute weltweit die Plattform für mobiles Messaging – natürlich auch in Deutschland“, sagt Alfons Lösing, verantwortlicher Geschäftsführer für das Wholesale- und Partnergeschäft bei E-Plus. „Die Zukunft des Mobilfunks liegt im Datengeschäft. Als Mobilfunk-Anbieter, der ohne Wenn und Aber die Bedürfnisse der Kunden in den Mittelpunkt stellt, ist die MVNO-Partnerschaft damit nur konsequent. Wir werden in Kürze WhatsApp-Nutzern eine attraktive Plattform bieten und schaffen damit eine Win-Win-Situation für alle Beteiligten: Kunden, WhatsApp und E-Plus.“

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Julian —  24. February 2014 — 3 Comments

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After Obama told them to stop spying on Merkel, NSA increased bugging of German ministers

Julian —  23. February 2014 — Leave a comment

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U.S. now bugging German ministers in place of Merkel (Reuters):

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has stepped up its surveillance of senior German government officials since being ordered by Barack Obama to halt its spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bild am Sonntag paper reported on Sunday. Revelations last year about mass U.S. surveillance in Germany, in particular of Merkel’s mobile phone, shocked Germans and sparked the most serious dispute between the transatlantic allies in a decade. Bild am Sonntag said its information stemmed from a high-ranking NSA employee in Germany and that those being spied on included Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, a close confidant of Merkel. (…)

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Google Search Results In $4000 Fine

Julian —  18. February 2014 — 1 Comment

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French journalist “hacks” govt by inputting correct URL, later fined $4,000+

(…) Laurelli initiated a Google search on other subjects, but what he stumbled on was perhaps more interesting: a link that led to 7.7 Gb of internal documents from the French National Agency for Food Safety, Environment, and Labor (the acronym is ANSES in French). Although the documents were openly indexed by Google, Laurelli would soon be in the French government’s crosshairs for publishing them. He eventually faced criminal charges, though he was later acquitted of those. However, a separate government agency pursued a civil appeal. And last Tuesday, a French appeals court fined Laurelli 3,000 Euros (or a little over $4,000), meaning he likely made one of the more expensive Google searches to date. (…)

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The Internet Is Broken – Act Accordingly

Julian —  10. February 2014 — Leave a comment

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The Internet Is Broken – Act Accordingly (threatpost.com)

So when Raiu says he conducts his online activities under the assumption that his movements are being monitored by government hackers, it is not meant as a scare tactic. It is a simple statement of fact. “I operate under the principle that my computer is owned by at least three governments,” Raiu said during a presentation he gave to industry analysts at the company’s analyst summit here on Thursday.

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But one of the things that the events of the last year have made clear is that the kind of paranoia and caution that Raiu and others who draw the attention of attackers employ as a matter of course should now be the default setting for the rest of us, as well. As researcher Claudio Guarnieri recently detailed, the Internet itself is compromised. Not this bit or that bit. The entire network. We now know that intelligence agencies have spent the last decade systematically penetrating virtually every portion of the Internet and are conducting surveillance and exploitation on a scale that a year ago would have seemed inconceivable to all but the most paranoid among us. Email? Broken. Mobile communications? Broken. Web traffic? Really broken. Crypto? So, so broken.

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4 Million To Get Off No Fly List

Julian —  7. February 2014 — 2 Comments

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FBI Checks Wrong Box, Places Student on No-Fly List (Wired)

The agent, Michael Kelly, based in San Jose, misunderstood the directions on the form and “erroneously nominated” Rahinah Ibrahim to the list in 2004, the judge wrote. “He checked the wrong boxes, filling out the form exactly the opposite way from the instructions on the form,” U.S. District Judge William Alsup wrote today. The decision makes Ibrahim, 48, the first person to successfully challenge placement on a government watch list.

Much of the federal court trial, in which the woman sought only to clear her name, was conducted in secret after U.S. officials repeatedly invoked the state secrets privilege and sought to have the case dismissed. Attorneys working pro bono spent as much as $300,000 litigating the case and $3.8 million in attorney’s fees.

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