Germany moves to give spy agencies hacking and sabotage powers

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Germany’s cabinet approved legislation granting intelligence agencies powers to hack foreign systems, sabotage adversaries’ supply chains, and spread false information domestically. This marks the most significant postwar overhaul of German spy laws.

Germany’s cabinet approved legislation that would let its intelligence agencies hack foreign systems, sabotage adversaries’ supply chains and feed false information to extremists inside Germany, in the biggest overhaul of the country’s spy laws of the postwar era.