Frank Rieger
Hacker, entrepreneur, consultant and author
Frank Rieger, is an hacker, entrepreneur, consultant and author. Professionally he has co-founded successful startups in the fields of of mobile navigation, maps, information security and practical cryptography. He works as CTO of a leading supplier of encrypted communication devices and mobile network security systems. He serves as a spokesperson for the german Chaos Computer Club. His texts on the impact of technology on the society, digital freedom rights and privacy as well as the future of work and cyberwar are regularly published in german and international media. Together with Constanze Kurz he has published three german bestseller books on the future of privacy ("Die Datenfresser", S. Fischer 2011), the future of work in a world of machines and artificial intelligence ("Arbeitsfrei", Random House 2013) and "Cyberwar" (C. Bertelsmann, 2018).
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Cryptography Alone Is Not Enough
Cryptocurrency from an attackers perspective means one thing: you can steal data that literally *is* money. A multitude of methods to prevent theft or at least make it harder have been developed over the years – several generations of hardware wallets, paper wallets, various elaborate cold storage systems etc. pp.. 2FA tokens for remote system access and similar devices are very similar in their p.. (2019-10-16)
