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Investigation December 2025

SCION: The Emperor's New Internet?

After 16 years and millions in funding, Switzerland's "revolutionary" internet architecture still requires the same expensive private infrastructure it promised to replace.

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

Investigation November 2024

Credit Suisse: 3,000 Applications and Counting

Inside the IT nightmare that keeps UBS executives awake at night

“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

Investigation July 2024

Swisscom: 8 Hours Without Emergency Calls

When Switzerland's telecom monopoly took emergency numbers offline during a flood

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

Investigation June 2022

Juris X: Zürich's 16-Year IT Odyssey

How the canton's justice system spent CHF 36 million to keep running 30-year-old software

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

Investigation February 2021

SECO IT Corruption: CHF 99 Million in Contracts

When a single civil servant awards contracts without bidding and nobody notices for a decade

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

Investigation August 2020

Swiss E-Voting: The Hackers Were Right

How security researchers killed Switzerland's 'third way' of voting in weeks

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

Investigation March 2020

INSIEME: The CHF 116 Million Lesson

How Switzerland's tax administration spent a decade and nine figures on software that never existed

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”