How does the story of the rise of Russia to cyber-great power, which - so accusation and complaint - manipulated elections in the US, hacking with sophisticated digital burglary tools in the Bundestag and the specially protected German government network?
It starts with a dead person. In early summer 1989 , he is found in a forest near the Lower Saxon town of Gifhorn. The body is burned, next to her there is a lump of plastic. The police will say that this was the canister from which the victim doused himself with petrol before it burned itself.
The dead man is identified as Karl Koch, a school dropout, drug addict but an early computer virtuoso. Koch was a hacker who had temporarily worked with a group of friends to the Soviet secret service KGB. Pretty stoned and bankrupt, members of the group had gone to East Berlin years before and offered their services to the Soviets. They could invade secret American data systems. The skepticism was great at first, but then a KGB man named Sergej got convinced. You could try it once.
"All-new quality of enemy espionage"
The thing flew up, the "biggest espionage case since Günter Guillaume" was the speech. That was exaggerated, but in the archives can be found today the sentence of the then president of the protection of the Constitution. It is certainly "here to do with a new quality enemy spying on our data networks".
Almost 30 years later you hear this phrase quite often.
The then KGB operation is the first officially recorded case of state computer espionage, the case Karl Koch came in the nineties under the title " 23 - Nothing is as it seems" in the cinemas. With the help of a "crowd of full-blooded German hackers", BBC security expert Gordon Corera writes in his book "Cyberspies", the KGB has recognized the potential of espionage over all others.
It was soon recognized in Moscow that the computer would dominate the world
Ironically, Russia. The land of brilliant mathematicians, physicists and chess grandmasters. On the one hand. On the other hand, his own citizens are talking on the phone and communicating with American, Korean, Chinese computers and cell phones. None of the very big Internet global corporations is based in Moscow or Saint Petersburg. But in all major cities there are Apple stores.
And yet Russia would no longer need Karl Koch today. Whole "digital armies from the East" are now ready, the mirror writes . Western intelligence agencies are convinced that they have been hired and trained for decades, patiently Russia has built its cyber capabilities. Because it was early recognized in Moscow that the computer would revolutionize the world. And in the world of espionage, there would not be one stone left on the other.
The computer and the spy have a long history. Among the first computers were those that were developed at the beginning of World War II to crack the military codes of the German encryption machine "Enigma". The coup helped the Allies to conquer Hitler Germany. British and Americans had developed the devices, the Soviet Union remained outside. The race started.
The East fell back, and in the Cold War, stealing computer technology was the most important task for the KGB and its East German partner, the Stasi, alongside military secrets. Entire departments worked to order the hopelessly defeated Eastern European technology combines. It was one of the biggest raids of the industrial age. One, who was entrusted as a young KGB officer, Dienstsitz Dresden, probably also with these tasks, is called Vladimir Putin .
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