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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"

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• 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/"

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• "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/"

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• 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/"

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• 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/"

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• 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/"

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• 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/"

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• 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 >}}