Publications

Put Facebook in its place

Here are a few tips to make it harder for Facebook to invade your privacy and sell your habits and activities to third parties

The company Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, makes the platform of the same name available to its users free of charge. On the platform, users can create a profile for themselves, their band, a company, etc. and share almost any information with third parties and network digitally. Technically, Facebook is very easy to use and can be used with practically any Internet-capable device. Equivalent alternatives – even though they have been announced time and again – do not exist to date. This is one of the main reasons why it is still very popular

Speech: Agile Contracting

As part of my professional activities, I gave a 45 minute presentation to a professional audience of more than 350 people as part of Behördenspiegel’s “Digitaler Staat Online” event series on the occasion of the “Praxistag Agilität und Skalierung in der öffentlichen Verwaltung”. The topic was the design of contracts for the implementation of agile projects in public administration.

Mozilla Lockwise — The Better Password Manager?

A brief look at the exciting product of the Mozilla Foundation and its strengths and possible risks

Password managers are a dime a dozen. There seems to be something for every taste and purse. However, the quality, level of comfort and security often differ — even though advertising always promises the best of the best. Popular representatives from the commercial sector include 1Password or Lastpass. In the open source area there are, among many other options, the popular representatives KeePass and Bitwarden.