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The Bundeswehr is reportedly assembling a "Cyberwar-Unit", which additionally to protecting the armed forces' IT infrastructure from attacks, is also supposed to scout and manipulate other computers or "adversarial networks". According to information available to the news magazine "Der Spiegel" the troupe consists of several dozen alumni of the universities of the Bundeswehr in computer-sciences and are stationed in Rheinbach near Bonn.
The "Hackers-in-Uniform", as the Hamburg-based news magazine ["Der Spiegel"] called them, are currently in training and the troupe will be reportedly fully operational the next year. The strictly classified unit is subordinate to the Kommando Strategische Aufklaerung (Strategical Reconnaissance Command) under command of brigadier Friedrich Wilhelm Kriesel
The Bundeswehr has issued no statement to the report. According to the Grundgesetz [German constitution], the German self-defence forces are prohibited from assuming interior tasks. There are, however, plans to abolish this ban.
While experts are arguing world-wide, whether the term cyber-war is actually correct, as there are no casualties, there seem to be a consensus, that the defence of such threats is one of the task of the armed forces of a country.
Regardless, whether in retrospect the cyber-attack on Estland is counted as a war, or not, every nation, which has a substantial IT-infrastructure, is taking the potential threat of cyber-attacks seriously.All links are leading to German pages. No guarantees on the accuracy of the translation, especially the military terms.
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German uniformsWhat do modern German military uniforms look like, anyway?
See for yourself. (Sorry, uses Flash.) Click on the images along the right to see the various uniforms currently in use.
You can also see the military ranks here. 'Heer' is the Army, 'Luftwaffe' is the Air Force, 'Marine' is the Navy, 'Sanitaetsdienst' is the medical service.
Cheers,
Ethelred
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German uniformsWhat do modern German military uniforms look like, anyway?
See for yourself. (Sorry, uses Flash.) Click on the images along the right to see the various uniforms currently in use.
You can also see the military ranks here. 'Heer' is the Army, 'Luftwaffe' is the Air Force, 'Marine' is the Navy, 'Sanitaetsdienst' is the medical service.
Cheers,
Ethelred
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Info on the "Superquiet German Sub"
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Info on the "Superquiet German Sub"
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Re:Wha?( www.budeswehr.de running Linux)
Check it out- the Budeswehr is running their offical site on Linux and Apache. Practicing what they preach- imagine that! Justin