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title: "SwissFini.sh"
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{{< article-card
  title="SCION: The Emperor's New Internet?"
  subtitle="After 16 years and millions in funding, Switzerland's \"revolutionary\" internet architecture still requires the same expensive private infrastructure it promised to replace."
  category="Investigation"
  date="December 2025"
  link="/articles/scion-vs-sdwan/"
  featured="true"
>}}
- Why production SCION can't run over public internet
- The "dedicated infrastructure" requirement hidden in plain sight
- How SSFN replaced MPLS with... more private links
- SRv6: The IETF standard that makes SCION redundant
- Axpo Systems: Sells SCION, deploys SRv6 for ASTRA highways
{{< /article-card >}}

{{< article-card
  title="Credit Suisse: 3,000 Applications and Counting"
  subtitle="Inside the IT nightmare that keeps UBS executives awake at night"
  category="Investigation"
  date="November 2024"
  link="/articles/credit-suisse-3000-applications-legacy/"
>}}
- "Pretty much every department built and maintained its own risk systems"
- UBS keeping only 10% of Credit Suisse's 3,000 applications
- USD 14 billion integration budget (and rising)
- The Deutsche Bank warning: how IT integrations go wrong
{{< /article-card >}}

{{< article-card
  title="Swisscom: 8 Hours Without Emergency Calls"
  subtitle="When Switzerland's telecom monopoly took emergency numbers offline during a flood"
  category="Investigation"
  date="July 2024"
  link="/articles/swisscom-8-hours-no-emergency-calls/"
>}}
- Emergency numbers 112, 117, 118, 144 unreachable for 8 hours
- Cause: "A software update led to a malfunction that triggered a domino effect"
- CEO: "Our networks are among the best in the world"
- Third major outage in four years
{{< /article-card >}}

{{< article-card
  title="Juris X: Zürich's 16-Year IT Odyssey"
  subtitle="How the canton's justice system spent CHF 36 million to keep running 30-year-old software"
  category="Investigation"
  date="June 2022"
  link="/articles/juris-x-zurich-16-year-odyssey/"
>}}
- 16 years attempting to replace case management software
- Two failed projects: CHF 24 million + CHF 15.6 million
- Parliamentary verdict: "Scheitern mit Ansage" (failure foretold)
- Current system: 30+ years old and still running
{{< /article-card >}}

{{< article-card
  title="SECO IT Corruption: CHF 99 Million in Contracts"
  subtitle="When a single civil servant awards contracts without bidding and nobody notices for a decade"
  category="Investigation"
  date="February 2021"
  link="/articles/seco-it-corruption-99-million-reasons/"
>}}
- CHF 99 million in IT contracts awarded without public bidding
- CHF 1.7 million in bribes over 10 years
- Zero internal controls caught the scheme
- Discovered by journalists, not auditors
{{< /article-card >}}

{{< article-card
  title="Swiss E-Voting: The Hackers Were Right"
  subtitle="How security researchers killed Switzerland's 'third way' of voting in weeks"
  category="Investigation"
  date="August 2020"
  link="/articles/swiss-e-voting-the-hackers-were-right/"
>}}
- University of Melbourne researchers found critical cryptographic flaw
- Votes could be altered during shuffling without detection
- 15 years of development, collapsed in months
- Nine cantons forced to stop offering e-voting
{{< /article-card >}}

{{< article-card
  title="INSIEME: The CHF 116 Million Lesson"
  subtitle="How Switzerland's tax administration spent a decade and nine figures on software that never existed"
  category="Investigation"
  date="March 2020"
  link="/articles/insieme-the-116-million-lesson/"
>}}
- 12 years, CHF 116 million, zero usable code
- Director served as client, sponsor, and project manager simultaneously
- Corruption and bribery charges filed
- The postmortem found "silo mentality" and "leadership weakness"
{{< /article-card >}}