Fefes blog

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Fefes blog
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operator Felix von Leitner
editorial staff Felix von Leitner
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On-line March 31, 2005
https://blog.fefe.de

Fefes blog is a Watchblog of the German IT security experts and IT entrepreneur Felix von Leitner , nickname Fefe . Since it was founded in 2005, von Leitner has mainly been commenting on current events , but also software security problems and leaks .

Content

Fefe, 2009

Felix von Leitner publishes daily news reports on his blog and comments on them. Stylistically, he uses “an unadulterated everyday language with elements of jargon from the IT scene” in his comments, which means that his statements are to be understood as opinions.

In an interview with the media branch service Meedia , von Leitner explained that he did not see himself as a source of news and that he had "no claim to truth or complete reporting" . In addition, according to the company's own statements, targeted false reports are occasionally spread on the blog with the stated aim of increasing the readers' media literacy.

Publications from Fefes blog were repeatedly taken up in other media: For example in the discussion about internet blocking , and about deletions in the German-language Wikipedia . One focus of the blog posts is the publication of security gaps, some of which have considerable consequences. At heise Security , Leitner is quoted as a security specialist with reference to his blog posts.

In 2006 von Leitner published a secret document from the Federal Criminal Police Office on the subject of suspicion criteria for Islamist terrorism . The Federal Criminal Police Office warned the blogger after one and a half years about the publication. Also in 2006 he drew attention to the problems of the electronic health card.

In connection with police attacks on the sidelines of the demonstration under the motto “ Freedom instead of fear ” on September 12, 2009, a video of the attacks was first published on Fefes blog. Various media reported the incident using Fefe's blog as the source for the witness video.

In April 2014, von Leitner suspected on his blog that the Heartbleed bug could be a backdoor that the programmer had deliberately built in for a fee .

Reception and criticism

In 2010, Stefan Mesch approved of Leitner in Der Zeit to fulfill “important watchdog and control functions” with his watch blog, but criticized the fact that Leitner with his smugly formulated and pessimistic conclusions was “often [...] close to the conspiracy theory”.

For the tenth anniversary of Fefes Blog 2015, blogger Michael Seemann criticized Fefe and the "Fefists" in the taz . In his opinion, Fefe conducts insufficient research, undifferentiated views and agitation against minorities. His blog is a “hate machine”, “the leading medium of unsuspecting, reactionary-ignorant asshole nerds”.

Also on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, Jürgen Kuri , editor at heise online and c't , wrote that in addition to Leitner's responsibility for the content he published, his readers were also responsible for how they deal with them.

In 2015, political scientist and anti-Semitism researcher Götz Aly called Fefe's comment on the $ 45 billion donation by Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg anti-Semitic in an opinion piece in the Berliner Zeitung . Fefe reproduces the aspect of the article on which he has commented that Zuckerberg and his descendants would not have to pay taxes for many years.

distribution

According to data from the Google Ad Planner, the blog recorded around 220,000 hits per month in 2011, making it 10th among the German blogs at that time.

The Wikio blog ranking ranked the blog in first place in October 2009 among German blogs in the Society category. In the German blog charts, the blog fell from fifth place (2009) to 66th (2013) in a list of the most frequently referenced weblogs in Germany. In the blog analysis Rivva , Fefes Blog 2009 was ranked 10th among the leading German online media, while Twingly's blog charts did not mention it in October 2009.

In 2008, Fefes Blog was rated a malicious website by the Yahoo search engine because it provided an archive bomb for download.

technology

The blog is based on software developed by Felix von Leitner himself . It was written in the C programming language and uses the program libraries dietlibc and libowfat , which he also developed, as well as the gatling web server and the tinyldap LDAP server . In October 2015, "the raw LDAP data of this blog" reached 23 MB.

Felix von Leitner is an advocate of simple software and a declared opponent of bloatware . Accordingly, Fefes blog deliberately refrains from using technologies such as PHP , Java , JavaScript , MySQL and PostgreSQL , although at least some of the scripts used for maintenance are written in Perl . The blog does not use some structuring elements such as <head>or in the HTML pages that it outputs <body>. It also does not use cascading style sheets by default (except for individual inline styles), but readers can apply their own styles to the page by specifying a CSS file in the URL .

The software does not offer the possibility to leave comments and trackbacks on posts in the blog. Von Leitner justifies this with the otherwise necessary prior censorship in his view , in order to protect himself from lawsuits before the Hamburg press chamber .

From December 2010 to April 1, 2014, Linus Neumann ran a website that provided the blog with a comment function for test purposes.

Podcast No alternative

Logo of alternative lot

As a supplement to the blog, Felix von Leitner and the Chaos Computer Club spokesman Frank Rieger have been publishing their own podcast since July 2010 . The No alternative called Offer - named after the homonymous political buzzword - is published irregularly. In contrast to Fefes blog , Alternativelos tries to treat the respective content with sufficient depth. Guests from Leitner and Rieger are also at their side. Guests were u. a. Frank Schirrmacher , Constanze Kurz , Gaby Weber and Mathias Döpfner . In 2011, Alternativlos received the Political Podcast of the Year award from Deutschlandradio .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Mühlbauer : " The List of Reason ." In: Telepolis , March 31, 2015 (accessed March 31, 2015).
  2. ↑ a b c Stefan Mesch: Guardian above the mainstream. In: Zeit Online . July 12, 2010, accessed August 1, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Microsoft excommunicates memcpy (). In: heise online . May 20, 2009, accessed January 2, 2010 .
  4. ^ A b Daniel Bachfeld: Security hole in the Linux kernel. In: heise online. April 9, 2009. Retrieved October 27, 2009 .
  5. ↑ a b Stephan Breuer: About the importance of authenticity and content for the credibility of web video formats in science communication. In: Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha , Jesús Muñoz Morcillo: Public Science and New Media. The role of web 2.0 culture in science communication. KIT Scientific Publishing, 2012, p. 109 f.
  6. ^ "Blogger Fefe on the Web, Power and the Media". Retrieved May 18, 2015 .
  7. ↑ a b c “Fefe Blog FAQ”. In: Fefes Blog. Retrieved October 31, 2009 .
  8. ↑ Kai Biermann : Child porn pages: Critics of the network lock turn away from politics. Zeit Online , June 18, 2009, accessed October 21, 2009 .
  9. ↑ Patrick Beuth: Internet locks: Struggle for the sovereignty of opinion. FR-Online , May 18, 2009, archived from the original on May 22, 2009 ; Retrieved October 22, 2009 .
  10. ↑ Christian Rath: First the law, then the protest. taz.de , June 16, 2009, accessed on October 22, 2009 .
  11. ↑ Ernst Corinth : THAT HURTS! The wild festivals of the vegetarians. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , October 22, 2009, accessed on October 22, 2009 .
  12. ↑ Kai Biermann : The dictatorship of relevance. Die Zeit , October 23, 2009, accessed on October 23, 2009 .
  13. ↑ Felix Knoke: Wikipedia authors go into the fire fighting war - against cats. Der Spiegel , October 20, 2009, accessed October 30, 2009 .
  14. ↑ Chad R. Dougherty, Robert C. Seacord: Vulnerability Note VU # 162289 - C compilers may silently discard some wraparound checks. Carnegie Mellon University , October 8, 2008, accessed October 27, 2009 .
  15. ↑ GCC optimizes safety checks away. In: heise online. April 7, 2008, accessed October 27, 2009 .
  16. ^ Stefan Krempl : "Criteria for suspicion of Islamist terrorism". In: heise online. January 24, 2006, accessed October 25, 2009 .
  17. ↑ Mon Jun 11 2007. In: Fefes Blog. Retrieved October 25, 2009 .
  18. ↑ Detlef Borchers : "Electronic health card: 'Liberated document' raises questions". In: heise online. November 25, 2006, accessed October 30, 2009 .
  19. ↑ Daniel Schulz: Video shows police attack. taz , September 12, 2009, accessed October 21, 2009 .
  20. ↑ Michael Marth : The power of networked protest. Focus , September 14, 2009, accessed October 22, 2009 .
  21. ↑ Freedom instead of fear: Investigations against police officers - video shows brutal police action on golem.de from September 13, 2009.
  22. ↑ Christian Stöcker: Demo against surveillance: punch in the face. Spiegel Online , September 13, 2009, accessed October 24, 2009 .
  23. ↑ Judith Horchert: Internet vulnerability: German programmed heartbleed error. In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved April 10, 2014 .
  24. ↑ Michael Seemann: Ten years of "Fefes Blog": The hate machine of the asshole nerds. In: TAZ . March 31, 2015, accessed March 31, 2015 .
  25. ↑ Fefes Blog: Comment from Jürgen Kuri, heise online / c't. March 31, 2015, accessed May 18, 2015 .
  26. ↑ Götz Aly: The malice against Mark Zuckerberg is anti-Semitic. In: Berliner Zeitung . December 8, 2015, accessed October 21, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Felix v. Leitner: Comment on Zuckerberg's 45 billion dollar donation. In: fefes blog. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  28. ↑ German blog charts, edition 43/2009. Jens Schröder, October 28, 2009, archived from the original on October 31, 2009 ; Retrieved October 31, 2009 .
  29. ↑ German Blogcharts, Edition Sep 2013. Jens Schröder, September 2013, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved November 30, 2013 .
  30. ↑ Rivva: Rivva Leitmedien. 2009, archived from the original on June 26, 2009 ; Retrieved June 12, 2011 .
  31. ^ The most popular blogs written in German. Twingly AB, archived from the original on March 5, 2010 ; Retrieved October 27, 2009 .
  32. ↑ According to Yahoo! Fefes Blog is a nest for Trojans and Adware. gulli, May 19, 2008, accessed November 23, 2010 .
  33. ↑ Thu Oct 22 2015. In: Fefes Blog. Retrieved October 23, 2015 .
  34. ↑ Felix von Leitner: How to write small and fast software. (PDF; 93 kB) Retrieved April 2, 2011 .
  35. ↑ Source code of Fefes blog.c. Archived from the original on November 15, 2016 ; accessed on November 15, 2016 .
  36. ↑ FINALLY! Fefes blog with comment function. Retrieved January 28, 2010 .
  37. ↑ re: fefe closed. Retrieved April 2, 2014 .
  38. ↑ Frank Rieger: A real-time experiment: humans become data sets. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 16, 2010, accessed on December 11, 2010 .
  39. ↑ No alternative, episode 20: On political discourse , October 23, 2011.
  40. ↑ No alternative to episode 29: About Weltbildmanipulation , May 8, 2013.
  41. ↑ No alternative to episode 19: About the State Trojan , October 11, 2011.
  42. ↑ No alternative to episode 26 , August 18, 2012.
  43. ↑ No alternative to episode 24 , July 2, 2012.
  44. ↑ Tobias Lenartz: The political podcast of the year. ( MP3 ; 00:02:57; 1.4 MB) DRadio Wissen , December 27, 2011, accessed July 30, 2016 .