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[quote=BITTERSWEET,359280]Many countries are now preparing for similar threats. The Americans alone plan to invest billions of dollars in a national cyber-defense program. Western intelligence agencies and military officials are convinced that their enemies are in the East, just as they were in the Cold War -- in Russia and China. A report submitted to the US Congress last fall concluded that China is "aggressively" expanding its cyber-warfare capabilities and may soon possess an "asymmetric advantage." According to the report, "these advantages would reduce the conventional superiority of the United States in a conflict situation."

The Germans have also had adverse experiences with China in this field. Just two years ago, the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany's domestic intelligence agency, informed the government that servers from Lanzhou province in China had attacked several German ministries and the chancellery with malicious software aimed at tapping sensitive information.

In mid-January the cabinet approved draft legislation to "strengthen the information security of the federal government." The draft legislation is now being reviewed by the Bundesrat, the upper house of the German parliament. So far it's gone largely unnoticed by the public, but the draft will be submitted to the lower house, or Bundestag, in early March. The "special urgency" of the legislation stems from the "need to safeguard government communication." The corresponding government agency, the Federal of Security in Information Technology (BSI) in Bonn, is to be expanded into something resembling a data watchdog for government agencies.

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