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Germany's Scholz vows probe into 'very serious' leak of army talks on Ukraine war (www.france24.com)

submitted 10 months ago by CAVOK to c/[email protected]

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday promised a full investigation after what appeared to be a recording of confidential army talks on the Ukraine war was posted on Russian social media, in a potentially huge embarrassment for Berlin.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

Apparently the leak happened because the discussion took place over an unsecured Webex call which is damning but at least means it's not a bug or inside source. Still awful security awareness.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Germany should not use Cisco's WebEx at all but someone in charge probably got some money from the company for it. And since no one has a clue about the internet and encryption, there wasn't anyone to question such a decision. Just all in all stupid but kinda fitting the stereotype of the "Neuland" that is the internet.

[–] EisFrei 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Bundeswehr has an encrypted messenger that is capable of conference calls.

It's based on matrix/Element.

No idea why they decided not to use it.

https://messenger.bwi.de/bwmessenger

[–] Badeendje 5 points 10 months ago

This is pretty embarrassing. Especially because it was released like it was.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if this was done now to distract from Scholz publicly talking about those systems in a way that accused France and the UK of direct participation in the war.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Really good insight. The timing is too coincidental