Interesting that the group takes responsibility for this. It kinda feels like the next escalation in this whole war…again.
Who will win? Babies first ddos script or an actual physical military tank. Stay tuned
The German government and agencies perhaps need some more waves of attacks like that to have some impetus to promote coordination between the central and local levels in order to improve the country’s digitalization and digital security.
>Germany’s only free, government-approved tax preparation software, Elster, crashed earlier this week. It was simply not able to handle hundreds of thousands of property tax returns filed in response to a government call for a reassessment.
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>Whether it’s a lack of cell service even in the middle of cities, fax machines in doctors’ offices, or a dearth of official services available online, there is near universal acceptance that Germany is stuck in the technological past.
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>Chancellor Olaf Scholz is seemingly unfazed. At the re:publica conference in Berlin, he laughed at the fact that Germans are having to wait for hours at city hall just to renew their ID cards. “I can’t say exactly when that will change because I know how things go in Germany,” he said.
I have never seen the head of state/government of another country laugh/make fun about an area in which their country is utterly impotent like that, the way Helmut Schmidt mocked the German intelligence service and Scholz mocked German digital development. And yet they say Germans have no humour ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Interesting that the group takes responsibility for this. It kinda feels like the next escalation in this whole war…again.
Who will win? Babies first ddos script or an actual physical military tank. Stay tuned
The German government and agencies perhaps need some more waves of attacks like that to have some impetus to promote coordination between the central and local levels in order to improve the country’s digitalization and digital security.
>Germany’s only free, government-approved tax preparation software, Elster, crashed earlier this week. It was simply not able to handle hundreds of thousands of property tax returns filed in response to a government call for a reassessment.
>
>Whether it’s a lack of cell service even in the middle of cities, fax machines in doctors’ offices, or a dearth of official services available online, there is near universal acceptance that Germany is stuck in the technological past.
>
>Chancellor Olaf Scholz is seemingly unfazed. At the re:publica conference in Berlin, he laughed at the fact that Germans are having to wait for hours at city hall just to renew their ID cards. “I can’t say exactly when that will change because I know how things go in Germany,” he said.
[https://www.dw.com/en/germany-the-digital-desert/a-62471678](https://www.dw.com/en/germany-the-digital-desert/a-62471678)
I have never seen the head of state/government of another country laugh/make fun about an area in which their country is utterly impotent like that, the way Helmut Schmidt mocked the German intelligence service and Scholz mocked German digital development. And yet they say Germans have no humour ¯\_(ツ)_/¯