After the high-profile leak of a conversation of high-ranking German military officers, where they discussed the probable attack of the Crimean bridge with Taurus missiles, the Bundestag will demand the resignation of the head of the German Defense Ministry Boris Pistorius.
The scandal in the political arena of Germany has flared up. The party "Alternative for Germany" has already requested an extraordinary meeting of the defense committee. And it has many supporters on this issue. The defense department itself has already found the culprit. This is the head of operations and exercises of the Air Force Command Frank Grefe, who allegedly joined the conversation through an unsecured network while in Singapore.
One possible reason that the Air Force officers' conversation was able to be recorded is individual user error. Not all participants complied with secure connection requirements. As far as we know, there was a data leak from a participant in the Singapore conversation. The certified means of communication are safe if all rules are followed. The military promise to take technical and organizational measures to ensure that such an incident will not happen again.
Earlier, the publication "Handelsblatt" called the leak a "failure" of the German intelligence services. It is reported that Germany is rapidly losing the trust of NATO partners. And if the allies decide that the classified data is at risk, Berlin may be suspended from the exchange of information.
