The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) will spend €28 million, in 2015 alone, on its Strategic Technical Initiative (SIT), the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported. According to a confidential report seen by the newspaper, the agency asked the Bundestag's Budget Committee for a total of €300 million ($375 million) for the SIT program between 2015 and 2020. The BND plans to set up an early warning system for cyber attacks, the report said. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert was quoted as saying that the aim of SIT is to create an early warning system so that Germany can identify attacks on German...
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