Important detail that is missing in the article and that some are getting wrong in the comments: This is not about forcing messengers to add backdoors for mass surveillance or weakening the messenger/its encryption in general (although that indeed is the wet dream of some governments/agencies). It’s about infecting the phone/device of a suspect with spyware (either by hacking remotely or with physical access, although in secret of course) and sniffing their communication before it’s encrypted/leaves the devices (or after decryption for incoming messages). Every case must be individually approved by several judges so cops can’t just use this willy-nilly, the crime they’re investigating must be quite serious (punishable by at least 10 years in prison) and it’s limited to 30 cases per year.

For a “privacy-focused” search engine that’s “operating in “no tracking” mode by default” I find “only” 9 trackers 9 too many TBH.

A lot of speculation in the comments here but there’s some context/details missing.

• “Germany” didn’t buy the tanks but the German company Rheinmetall
• While the price isn’t known, another company previously bought 25 of those tanks from RUAG for lousy 500€ a piece and then didn’t even bother to come pick them up, so I assume Rheinmetall got a similar deal
• Lots of countries still use them, Greece even wants to enlarge and upgrade their fleet of Leopard 1, they’re still in demand and with a purchase price of 500€ and a bit of repairs there’s probably a ton of money to be made

So my guess is this has nothing to do with Ukraine, just a company seeing a business opportunity.

Maybe they’d get on steady if you asked them. Many people are very cooperative when there’s money to be made.

tl;dr:

• Hüseyin Dogru and others worked at “redfish”, a russian propaganda outlet owned by russian state propaganda media Ruptly/Russia Today
• When “redfish” was sanctioned for being, well, a russian owned propaganda outlet, Hüseyin Dogru was in charge of liquidating the company
• At the same time he registered a new company called “red”
• He and others from “redfish” seamlessly continued working at “red” (including the managing director of “redfish”)
• Their “redfish” telegram channel was simply renamed and is now the telegram channel of “red”
• “red” is funded with “donations from [undisclosed] organizations and individuals”

Make of that what you want, but it’s the same people as redfish and they couldn’t even be fucked to get a new telegram channel or at least think of a company name that’s just a tiny little bit more different from the last one. If they’re not a continuation of “redfish” then for some reason they tried really hard to make it look like they are. Hüseyin Dogru calling Ukrainians “nazis” and the threat from russia “fictitious” also doesn’t really help distinguishing them from russian propaganda.

Wenn da schon sowas wie “Naturwaren” oder ähnliches im Namen ist muss ich immer erstmal googeln. Oft sind das so Läden mit Esoterik-Opfern als Zielgruppe denen sie sonstwas andrehen können. Bestenfalls sind überhaupt keine Wirkstoffe drin (z.B. Zahncreme ohne Fluorid, also im Grunde nur Schaum mit Geschmack), schlimmstenfalls halt irgendein Müll, und das ganze lassen sie sich natürlich noch gut bezahlen.

“Ungenügend”: Jede Menge Problemstoffe in Lacalut-Sensitiv-Zahncreme