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UK to create new cyber defence force

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Re: UK to create new cyber defence force

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While I hope that this force would focus their attention at serious crimes, nation's attacks against nations, and espionage, my inner cynic tells me that the primary target will be 16 year old kids who DDOS the web hosting company of a government website that happens to have been done by the lowest bidder. Basically sending the army after the nation's own kids.

Don't be naive, they'll be hacking into torrent websites in no time. The government is going to declare a variety of categories of targets that will be open game for sabotage and infiltration.

While that might be the future, I was more describing how things are today.

Just a week ago, one of the largest public transport companies in Sweden got hit by a DDOS attack. Their website, ticket system, and other areas was effected for several days. It was presented in the news as a major cyber attack, likely originating from organized crimes in countries far far away.

And then a website for 16 year olds "crackers" in Sweden came forth... I still see news articles lagging behind, still describing how government should deal with this "new" threat. All from secret police to anti-terrorist equipment, and I doubt that the military is that far behind in getting a piece of the increased budget pie.

Re: UK to create new cyber defence force

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This isn't going to work. I worked in the defence industry for a couple of years in an IT capacity and I'm not joking, the guys who run the shop don't know arse from elbow. Everything is run army style i.e. procedurally and non established procedures, even if they mitigate realistic threats aren't considered or accepted. They're that bad that still to this day, there are NT4 and exchange 5.5 deployments hanging aroun…

Any particular reason why they couldn't become as agile as IDF ISNU?

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/tr/contents/articles/busines...

Re: UK to create new cyber defence force

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This isn't going to work. I worked in the defence industry for a couple of years in an IT capacity and I'm not joking, the guys who run the shop don't know arse from elbow. Everything is run army style i.e. procedurally and non established procedures, even if they mitigate realistic threats aren't considered or accepted. They're that bad that still to this day, there are NT4 and exchange 5.5 deployments hanging aroun…

Any particular reason why they couldn't become as agile as IDF ISNU? http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/tr/contents/articles/busines...

Yes. This was the ministry of defence which somehow manages to fuck everything up on a galactic scale. They really didn't have the talent to pull that off.
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