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Schluss For Germany's Oldest Online Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the in-den-sauren-apfel-beissen-m�ssen dept.

Rolo Tomasi writes: "Germany's first online service, BTX (Bildschirmtext) is shutting down. BTX had a history of major security flaws, which made the Chaos Computer Club famous." Non-speakers might want to try a translation.

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  1. Still In Use by bamberg29 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Germans still used this up to now for the so called 'Classic' applications such as home banking. T-Online (large German ISP) was the one that kept this system up until now mostly for the homebanking applications, but they have now migrated it to regular TCP/IP protocols.

    So now they can finally get rid of it.