Defense through hackbacks?
Panel discussion
The cybersecurity situation is difficult. Attacks threaten infrastructures, cause billions in damage – and Putin’s digital arsenal is just one problem. But how can digital counterattacks effectively improve our situation, or – in an emergency – disable or destroy the enemy’s infrastructure?
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The Stasi Myth
Book presentation
Historian Michael Wala has now been granted exclusive, complete access to the secret archives of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution’s counterintelligence. His book reveals for the first time the methods used by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to try to track down Stasi spies and the success they had in doing so.
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The Independent Control Council
Panel discussion
According to Reporters Without Borders, the reformed “BND Law” is still unconstitutional and the spying practice threatens human lives. At the same time, the Independent Control Council is supposed to subject the BND’s technical reconnaissance to comprehensive legal scrutiny. So what is going to change now?
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Simply mowed down…
Panel discussion
According to the current state of research, more than 30 minors were shot at the German-German border or died there as a result of other acts of violence. Bernhard Priesemuth has worked through many of these fates already in the 1990s. His many years of research document a picture of the horrors for which the GDR border regime was responsible.
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Concrete contemporary witnesses
Presentation
They often evade public perception, have experienced contemporary history, are monumental places and representatives of power – the contemporary witnesses made of concrete. Robert Conrad documented top-secret facilities in the GDR: government airfields, restricted military areas, news bunkers.
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AI and the German secret services
Panel discussion
Police forces and secret services in Germany use AI systems. For what, but should remain secret. With proven experts, we try to get a picture of the situation, take stock and carry out an analysis. What can AI do and what protection does it offer the state and its citizens?
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