Frank Rieger

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Frank Rieger (born December 6, 1971 in Perleberg ) is a German hacker , non-fiction author , technology journalist , internet activist and one of the spokesmen for the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).

Frank Rieger at re: publica 2019

Life

Frank Rieger has founded various start-up companies in Germany in the fields of data security, navigation services and e-reading since the 1990s and currently (2015) works as the managing director of a company for communications security. He is a volunteer speaker for the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). He gives lectures at the CCC's annual Chaos Communication Congress , many of them together with Felix von Leitner alias Fefe , such as the Fnord annual review, which was presented annually from 2003 to 2016 (20C3 to 33C3) . In 2009 he also gave the keynote speech at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress. Together with Felix von Leitner he runs the podcast without alternatives .

Frank Rieger at the Chaos Communication Congress 2013 of the Chaos Computer Club

Rieger publishes regularly in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , for example on the Stuxnet computer worm . As a special scoop , his article about the state trojan uncovered by the Chaos Computer Club and decrypted by disassembly was presented.

Rieger and Fefe invited Frank Schirrmacher, the FAZ editor and author of the internet-critical book Payback, to discuss political discourse and worldview manipulation for their podcast . They also spoke to Constanze Kurz , Gaby Weber , Martin Haase , Kai Biermann and Mathias Döpfner for other issues . In 2011, Alternativlos received the Political Podcast of the Year award from Deutschlandradio . Frank Rieger is a sought-after interview partner on the subject of data security and misuse.

In 2012 the Chaos Computer Club and its two speakers Constanze Kurz and Frank Rieger received the Werner Holtfort Prize for civil and human rights engagement.

In 2014, Rieger testified as an expert on technical issues in the NSA committee of inquiry . He is one of the initiators of the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

Works (selection)

  • Constanze Kurz and Frank Rieger: The data guzzlers. How internet companies and the state incorporate our personal data and how we regain control over it , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-048518-2 .
  • Constanze Kurz and Frank Rieger: Free of work. A journey of discovery to the machines that replace us , Riemann, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-50155-9 .
  • Constanze Kurz and Frank Rieger: Cyberwar: The Danger from the Net. Who threatens us and how we can defend ourselves , C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-570-10351-7 .

Web links

Commons : Frank Rieger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keynote 26th Chaos Communication Congress "Here be dragons" , December 27, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b http://alternativlos.org/
  3. ^ Frank Rieger: Trojan "stuxnet" - the digital first strike has taken place . In: faz.net , September 22, 2010.
  4. ↑ Frank Rieger: Anatomy of a digital vermin . In: faz.net October 9, 2011.
  5. ↑ Tobias Lenartz: The political podcast of the year. (No longer available online.) DRadio Wissen , December 27, 2011, archived from the original on March 8, 2013 ; Retrieved May 17, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Wissen.dradio.de
  6. ↑ Michael Hanfeld in the FAZ on June 7, 2013, access to the information is total , accessed on December 29, 2013.
  7. ↑ Frank Rieger, Chaos Computer Club, on the NSA's approach to data decryption . In: tagesschau.de , September 6, 2013, accessed on December 29, 2013.
  8. ↑ Torsten Kleinz: "That fits very well with Apple's arrogance" . In: Focus , April 21, 2011, accessed December 29, 2013.
  9. ^ Thomas Stadler: Civil Rights Prize for the CCC, Constanze Kurz and Frank Rieger . In: internet-law.de , May 3, 2012, accessed on December 29, 2013.
  10. ↑ Frank Rieger (CCC) in the NSA committee of inquiry (compilation) on June 26, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLp5EtPk3cg
personal data
SURNAME Rieger, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hacker
DATE OF BIRTH 6th December 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Pearl Mountain