Over the past couple of days, there's been various reports of the German car tag offices here in Hessen.....being 'hacked'. What is generally said....several offices were hacked at different times and customers have been delayed in getting actions done.
NSA? No. These are just regular hackers. Strangely enough.....this barely gets mentioned in regional news and it won't get even ten seconds of mention on German national news. Odd? Well....yeah. You'd think the Greens would get all upset and testy about hackers but since it's not NSA hackers.....there's no problem.
This is part of the German game of 'hating' Americans. As long as it's NSA doing bad things.....you can spend hours and hours on some national political chat show and talk up the evils of NSA. Once you say it's just plain regular hacking getting into some German government database? Well....no need to discuss this matter.
I've come to notice this type of behavior and it kinda justifies the two-faced attitude about Germans and IT problems. There's no problem unless it's Goggle, Yahoo, Microsoft, CISCO, or NSA involved. Once you mentioned one of these American entities.....it gets moved to national attention and you get five guys trying to make sixty minutes of German national discussion out of a five-minute topic.
As for why the hackers targeted the car tag folks? I'm guessed some 'markers' were placed with fake ID's and some fake tags will be generated out of this game. Someone will sell the fake tags/markers and the German cops will wake up three years from now to realize they've got a thousand bogus car tags in the system. That's my humble bet.
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