About me

I am Josef Fröhle, currently 36 years old.

My IT passion started in the 1990s, back when my father had his first PC and there were still the AOL CDs to get to get on the Internet. Already then I delivered myself, with the PC of my father the first "hacks", in which I got myself to the Internet. It was not always easy but it worked again and again, although everything was "protected" at that time. was "protected", with password of course.

My first programming experiences I made actively with QBasic, writing small programs, like games, CSV databases. Whereby I just remember, for my brother I wrote the codes for the games from the magazines on the C64. for the games from the magazines, was that already programming? I am not sure :-D

School was boring for me and I tried to be a hacker, and I got several times a several times. Nevertheless, IT security was ever worth a special attention to me, even though I'm no longer an active active "underground" hacker. Besides numerous banks, payment providers and stores, where I could find and report vulnerabilities I was also engaged for some websites/eCommerce operators to check their systems. check.

I was also often allowed to find unintentional vulnerabilities, one of the biggest - and denied - I could find at Conrad.de where I used to be a customer. Until, yes, until I had to find out that my access did not work anymore and I had to

I had to "re-register". Let's make it short, my father with the same first name had registered over the years there also registered there over the years and took over my account, my old cell phone number and my date of birth (with typo) was still deposited. However, his bank details, which I could have used for a direct debit for an order, as well as some other data, were still visible. some other data, were still visible. After I had contacted Conrad SE directly and contacted both media like Golem.de, as well as the state data protection commissioner, all traces were of course "covered up" so far or denied. It was said, it should be a "customer-friendly" feature, if customers have forgotten times you have already registered. So or so similar I think was the wording. Ehr a stupid Faux... which one well would like to interpret.

Anyway, today I work as a consultant, software developer, Linux system administrator and DevOps engineer, and I have already worked for Europe's largest software companies, some insurance companies and their start-up work for them. Also my time at one or the other SME were very instructive.

So that's it for now, the further career is TBD.

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