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Lilith Wittmann
Personal blog · lilithwittmann.medium.comsecuritypolitics
Lilith Wittmann's personal blog at lilithwittmann.medium.com covers security and politics. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Bundesservice Telekommunikation – unmasked: The secret service behind [German]”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lilith Wittmann's Medium posts on her investigations into German government and party tech, such as the CDU Connect security flaw and an AirTag trace to a federal agency called Bundesservice Telekommunikation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Bundesservice Telekommunikation – unmasked: The secret service behind [German]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-24
What Hacker News says?
All this reminds me of the case of Lilith Wittmann [1], who got sued by the CDU (Germany's majority-holding party) in May 2021 because she discovered a security flaw in their election campaign app "CDU connect". Data from around 100.000 visitors and 18.500 election campaign helpers was not sufficiently secured. She used responsible disclosure to let the CDU know of this flaw, got sued in response. After an outcry fr…
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on “Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website”Submitted Bundesservice Telekommunikation – unmasked: The secret service behind [German] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI don't think that the timing of this has much to do with the following, but I find it an amusing coincidence: Just a month ago the German activist Lilith Wittmann used an airtag to corroborate the suspicion that a branch of the German government she (or anyone else who should) never heard about before called "Bundesservice Telekommunikation" (Federal service of telecommunication) is just a front for the Bundesamt f…
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on “An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking”There's a newer post on medium by her which mentions the AirTag [0]. Sorry I didn't spot that myself when I linked to the older medium post in an earlier comment. [0] https://lilithwittmann.medium.com/bundesservice-telekommunik...
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on “German woman uses an AirTag to find a government arm that doesn't exist”A longer article by Lilith Wittmann (the "German woman") herself can be found here [0] or you could listen to the detailed and entertaining interview on the podcast Logbuch:Netzpolitik [1], unfortunately both only in German language. [0] https://lilithwittmann.medium.com/bundesservice-telekommunik... [1] https://logbuch-netzpolitik.de/lnp419-und-aehnlich-verschwor...
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on “German woman uses an AirTag to find a government arm that doesn't exist”