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German Bundeswehr Recruiting Hackers

Posted by timothy on from the blinkenlights-brauch'-das-fingerpoken dept.

bad_alloc writes "Heise.de tells us about the German Bundeswehr's idea of recruiting hackers in order to 'penetrate, manipulate and damage hostile networks.' (Note: The following passage has been translated from German into English: 'The Regiment is stationed in Rheinbach, near Bonn, and consists of several dozen graduates from Bundeswehr universities. They're training at the moment, but the 'hackers in uniforms' are supposed to be operational by next year. This regiment officially belongs to the "Kommando Strategische Aufklärung" (strategic reconnaissance) and is commanded by Brigadier General Friedrich Wilhelm Kriesel. The Bundeswehr has not said anything to this regiment yet.' You can find the full article in German."

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  1. Just asking. by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Funny

    So why does a beer company need Hacker Kommandos? Is it because they're Beglium now?

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  2. Re:That's great and all, but... by andy1307 · · Score: 5, Funny

    what with this being an english site and all.

    This being slashdot and all, nobody would actually read the article anyway.

  3. Re:Is this really news? by arogier · · Score: 5, Funny

    But NSA hackers don't get spiffy uniforms. If a cyberspace world war breaks out Das Keyboard might become a documentary as opposed to just... a keyboard.

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  4. Re:The German Bundeswehr by clarkkent09 · · Score: 2, Funny

    German Armed Forces. It's a reasonably well known term even in the English speaking world not to mention that it only takes a second to google it and it can be inferred fairly easily from the summary as well. Now, linking to an article in German without any kind of English translation, that is pretty dumb

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  5. Sweet... by uvajed_ekil · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Bundeswehr is recruiting hackers? I'm sure Bayern Munich will get the top recruits as they often do, though I'll keep rooting for FC Kaiserslautern (FCK). Football and hacking finally meet, and I'm in heaven.

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  6. very informative! by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    "And even if the cyber attack on Estonia in retrospect, not as a "war" browsed meanwhile shall any State which is a substantial electronic IT infrastructure operates, potential threats posed by cyber attacks seriously."

    1. Re:very informative! by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Funny

      The rest of the article is rather uniformative though..

      (emphasize by me)

      Well, it's about military, so uniforms shouldn't be a surprise ...

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  7. Re:That's great and all, but... by aliquis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jaja, aber Kartoffelbrei, ich bin mit der Fernsehturm verheiraten. I can fix it for you! Super hero acht klar!

    Dieses hax0rs wollen siene gelÃck zu hax0r nicht-unsere aber others netwÃrk getesten. Jemand wollen SS uniformen zugaben before entlich der communist volk probieren sind!

    Or well, maybe I leave it to the native germans after all.

  8. German Bundeswehr Recruiting Hackers by agrippa_cash · · Score: 3, Funny

    RE:German Bundeswehr Recruiting Hackers If it tastes anything like American Bundeswehr, they'll have a hard time keeping them.

  9. I wouldn't buy a parser from you by Dr.+Hok · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I'm not the only one who read that as Budweiser!

    Incidentally Hacker is a brewery.

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  10. Re:IT Work by Jens+Egon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why does everyone focus immediately on the "black hat" side of the story, and neglect that the group is supposed to do BOTH sides, which in some ways, is a good aspect of ANY security team... just hopefully, your security team follows ethics.

    Because in general, the military is not exactly known for it's humanitarian altruistic approach. Most military define security by going into the enemies home and screwing them there.

    Which is why the majority of soldiers in the "Democratic" Republic of Congo has AIDS.

    I hope our German friends have better security than that.

  11. Re:That's great and all, but... by Fred_A · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, we should ignore all foreign articles until they've been officially translated, even tho' translation tools are adequate to give you the gist of an article

    Quite. After all this being the Internet, it's not like it interconnects any networks all over the planet, or if /. had been around for any amount of time and had drawn English speaking people from all kinds of places.

    So let's stick to articles from the US or (very occasionally) Air Strip 1. After all all other people must hate freedom as shown by their willingness of living outside of the US (and speaking funny languages with weird characters that aren't even proper ASCII).

    I mean - it's not like there's any Germans who read Slashdot & will translate in the comments or anything is it?

    Now that's just crazy talk.

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  12. Re:That's great and all, but... by mcvos · · Score: 3, Funny

    Vieleicht solltest Du auch erst einmal deutsch lernen ...

    Are we going to get faulty spelling flames in German now?

  13. Re:Important issue missing in TFA by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you want the Stahlhelm or the Pickelhaube?