Germany fires cybersecurity chief over Russia ties

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63301864

by kofejnik • 4 years ago

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Tepix2• 4 years ago

The BSI is the german secret service (it's not officially called that) for IT security topics.

stuffinmyhand• 4 years ago

all the good hacking stuff happens in the BND tho

Tepix2• 4 years ago

See? That's what they tell you.

iforgotpassword• 4 years ago

https://youtu.be/dtZf-A4Qd5k

The late night show mentioned in the article. From a quick glance the auto translated subtitles are somewhat ok, the German ones are auto generated already and contain some errors, and I guess some of the humor gets lost in translation.

waqf2• 4 years ago

I don't really understand the allegation put forward in the programme. I see that Protelion is suspect but why would this reflect on Cyber-Sicherheitsrat Deutschland e.V.?

y422• 4 years ago

Because Schönbohm is also the founder of Cyber-Sicherheitsrat Deutschland e.V. Besides that the name and appearance is confusing, as it seems to be an official government organisation, like the Nationaler Cyber-Sicherheitsrat - which is infact an official organisation.

That all would be ok, if not a couple of huge companies are member of this society. So, if you are in cyber security, this is a little bit too fishy.

yakak• 4 years ago

I think they hired and fired him for being the head of a private industry organization that seemed similar? Would a German head of the Fido Alliance have been the head of a German-enough organization and would they have later been fired for Feitian's participation if China were the theme?

lakomen• 4 years ago

Let's not forget there is political interest to remove him because he was against some of the spying interests of the BSI.

This was a political move. A setup.

riedel• 4 years ago

To clarify: the ministry want to place someone supportive of leaving some vulnerabilities "managed" by secret services. Schönborn was strict on security and obligations to close any zerodays known to governments.

However, it is probably not a setup, but the minister just took the opportunity of some drama created by the show. The facts all were known when he we was brought into office. There were previous reports.The "news", him attending the birthday party of his former lobbying outfit with permission of the ministry, could be counted as a setup, but it rather makes the ministry look bad as well.

Germany fires cybersecurity chief over Russia ties

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