[Infowarrior] - Bundeswehr builds Cyberwar Unit

[Richard Forno]

(translated from the original German via the Fish.....----rf)

07.02.2009 17:45
Telepolis

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Medienbericht-Bundeswehr-baut-Cyberwar-Einheit-auf--/meldung/127082

Media report: German Federal Armed Forces develop “Cyberwar unit”

The German Federal Armed Forces develop at present allegedly a  
“Cyberwar unit”, which do not only protect the own IT-infrastructure  
against attacks, but also investigations and manipulations on strange  
computers and/or “in opposing nets” would drive through are. After  
information mirror exists the troop of several dozen in Rhine brook  
with Bonn kasernierten graduate of computer science of the German  
Federal Armed Forces universities. At present - so that Hamburg news  
magazines - the “hackers practice in uniform”, fully still  
operationally should them only in the next year be.

Organizational the top secret unit is assigned and by Brigadier  
General Friedrich Wilhelm Kriesel is led allegedly to the command  
strategic clearing-up. With the German Federal Armed Forces so far no  
statement was to be gotten to the report. After the Basic Law the  
German defense army may not notice tasks in the interior, however  
there are plans since longer to eliminate this prohibition.

World-wide the experts argue whether a term is correct such as  
Cyberwar, because there are no dead ones and injured ones in such a  
war, on the other hand one however apparent exists agreement over the  
fact that the protection against such threats ranks among the tasks of  
the armed forces of a country. And even if the Cyberattacke on Estonia  
did not go through afterwards as “war”, then meanwhile each state,  
which operates a substantial electronic IT-infrastructure, takes  
potenzielle threats by Cyberattacken seriously. (PEM/Telepolis)