Claudia Plattner, Head of the German Federal Office for Information Technology Security, said that Germany is not ready for large-scale hacker attacks. He mentioned this in an interview Der Tagesspiegel.
“And we definitely need that. “We can’t call each other 16 times to find out what’s where,” Plattner said.
According to him, if the lights are turned off in a major city as a result of a cyber incident, the country will have to do everything to overcome this crisis.
Before reportedHe said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz used 19th-century pneumatic mail to deliver secret documents to his office because he feared the threat of Russian hackers and espionage from Moscow. The operation of such a system costs 15 thousand euros per year, and up to 1000 letters per month are sent by the device. A German government spokesman said these were “documents that are generally urgent and cannot be sent electronically or by courier for confidentiality reasons”.
Previously Scholz in the name Putin will withdraw his troops from Ukraine.