Merkels famous quote (“Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland” - “The internet is new ground for all of us”) still holds true in 2026 lol. Literal third world countries are more advanced when it comes to digitization and stuff lol.
If you break them and report the bug you can be prosecuted under some hacking paragraph.
The old shoot the messenger approach!
We’ve had some high profile examples in the US too. Like this one, from 2021. A professor was investigated by governor Mike Parson of Missouri, for literally using View Page Source in a browser. And reporting a major vulnerability in good faith. I linked Parson’s wikipedia page, because he deserves his ridicule. Not for his ignorance! Many are ignorant of how the web works. That’s OK. He deserves ridicule for how he handled the episode. For dragging the professor’s name through the mud, who had only tried to help.
In the end, the governor received much ridicule. The investgation was dropped.
They probably paid a million for this vibe coded app. I am confident that I could somehow make this.
Super common here in Germany that sensitive data is handled via crappy apps that essentially have backdoors.
If you break them and report the bug you can be prosecuted under some hacking paragraph.
Merkels famous quote (“Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland” - “The internet is new ground for all of us”) still holds true in 2026 lol. Literal third world countries are more advanced when it comes to digitization and stuff lol.
The old shoot the messenger approach!
We’ve had some high profile examples in the US too. Like this one, from 2021. A professor was investigated by governor Mike Parson of Missouri, for literally using View Page Source in a browser. And reporting a major vulnerability in good faith. I linked Parson’s wikipedia page, because he deserves his ridicule. Not for his ignorance! Many are ignorant of how the web works. That’s OK. He deserves ridicule for how he handled the episode. For dragging the professor’s name through the mud, who had only tried to help.
In the end, the governor received much ridicule. The investgation was dropped.