The chairman of the Bundestag’s Parliamentary Control Committee, Mark Heinrichmann from the CDU party, is demanding that German intelligence services be given the right to carry out preventive cyberattacks against Russian drone manufacturers.
The chairman of the Bundestag’s Parliamentary Control Committee, Mark Heinrichmann from the CDU party, is demanding that German intelligence services be given the right to carry out preventive cyberattacks against Russian drone manufacturers.
According to the politician, quoted by the Welt publication, this step is part of the reform of the intelligence services, in which he is also participating.
Heinrichmann stressed that «pure intelligence collection» is no longer enough.
«We really need to expand the capabilities of our services so that, ideally, they can disable and neutralize a strike drone in Russia or the factory that produces it before it can target a German airport or endanger the safety and lives of people in Germany,» he noted.
To do this, according to Heinrichmann, German intelligence services need to be given appropriate powers at the legislative level, and the intelligence services themselves need to be «restructured and reorganized to stay ahead of the threat.»
«The best drone is one that never takes off and cannot threaten Germany,» Heinrichmann continued.
In one of his publications, the politician emphasized that cyberattacks, sabotage, espionage, and unauthorized drone flights are now part of the reality for which «we need to be better prepared.»
He also emphasized that the Federal Intelligence Service and other intelligence agencies need «the necessary legal and technical capabilities» for early detection of threats and comprehensive investigation of their origin.
According to the publication, the German government is due to discuss reform of the laws regulating the activities of the Federal Intelligence Service and special services in general in the near future.
As you know, the SBU and the FBI recently exposed Russian special services attempting to hack the messengers of officials in Ukraine and the West.
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