Publisher & License

BITS is published by Kommunal Agentur NRW GmbH and Mr. Dr. Lutz Gollan from Landesbetrieb Verkehr, Hamburg, and is under the patronage of Städte- und Gemeindebund NRW. The authors are Dr. Lutz Gollan and Mr. Helmut Honermann, PureSec GmbH. The technical realization is done by Mr. Werner Eising and Mr. Andreas Hösl from Chr. Mayr GmbH + Co. KG.

BITS is free of charge and licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0. You may:

  • Share - reproduce and redistribute the material in any format or medium.
  • Edit - remix, modify and build upon the material

for any purpose, even commercially. The Licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you abide by the terms of the license.

Conditions:

  • Attribution - You must provide appropriate copyright and rights notices, include a link to the license (this page), and indicate if any modifications have been made. These disclosures may be made in any reasonable manner, but not in a way that suggests that the licensor is particularly supportive of you or your use.
  • Redistribution under the same terms - If you remix, modify, or otherwise directly build upon the material, you may only distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
  • No Additional Restrictions - You may not use any additional clauses or technical processes that legally prohibit others from doing anything that the license permits.

The hugo framework used is under the Apache license, v2.0, the Relearn theme and the quiz including quizdown-js under the MIT license. The icons are from https://fontawesome.com and are under free license, also the image on the 404 error page: Photo by Donald Giannatti on Unsplash.

BITS is based on open beware!, which was developed by BDG GmbH & Co. KG, now NTT Security GmbH.

Adaptations to the TU-Dortmund and translation

Adaptations were made by the Central Services Department of the TU Dortmund University in order to point out certain TU specifics in the context of links, contact persons, technical settings (SIC in this case), logo and quiz answer options. For the englisch version the content was translated using Deepl.

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Imprint

Kommunal Agentur NRW GmbH, Cecilienallee 59, 40474 Düsseldorf, Germany

Phone: 0211-430 77 0, Fax: 0211-430 77 22

E-Mail: Karsten Klick

Local court Düsseldorf HRB 53640, tax number 105/5826/1765

Authorized representatives:

  • Dr. Ralf Togler
  • Dr. jur. Peter Queitsch

Translated with deepl