https://www.libcom.de/en/tags/security/ Recent content in Security on libcom.de Hugo en-GB Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/the-promise-of-the-right-tool/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/the-promise-of-the-right-tool/ <p>There is a sentence that gets spoken more often than any other this decade, and it sounds like insight but is really capitulation: <em>Well, in the end everything is transparent anyway.</em></p> <p>What it refers to is the mood that crept in like damp into a cellar — the assumption that every app phones home, every device emits telemetry, every cloud can read your data regardless, and there is simply no fighting it anymore. Anyone who talks like this thinks of themselves as realistic. Really they have given up and are looking for an elegant formulation for it.</p> https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/router-security-a-house-of-cards/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/router-security-a-house-of-cards/ <p>It usually stands in the hallway. Or in the cellar. A flat, warm-running device with blinking LEDs that the provider brought along when the contract was signed. You plug it in, join the Wi-Fi, forget it. Years later it is still running — same firmware, same password, same gaps as on day one.</p> <p>Nobody in the household knows what happens inside it. Nobody can find out. The device that guards the crossing between the public internet and everything that matters to you — banking traffic, family devices, cameras, the VPN tunnel into the home office — is a black box. And the track record of these black boxes is, frankly, catastrophic.</p>