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Canadian Gov't Victim of Cyberattacks
courteaudotbiz writes "Canada and all members of the U5 (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France and New-Zealand) state that they all suffered government-directed attacks between June and September 2007. These seemed to be Chinese government sponsored attacks." It's a Google translation, so it's a bit hard to read, but it seems to be a recurring story these last few months.
This is all I could dig up really - seems to be some cyber-security e-commerce related group?
Whereas work in other areas of shared concern, such as international trade, is conducted in line with some "ground truths and principles," there is little by way of standards, laws, regulations, etc. to guide international cooperation between key partners on cyber security. Mr. Aisenberg argued that such cooperation could be especially fruitful between the so called "U5 Countries" - Canada, Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. As countries with a shared history, common language, and similar institutions and values, the U5 countries could work together and "develop a doctrine that they can all believe in," before moving policy, regulation, and legislation in that shared direction. In fact, Mr. Aisenberg emphasized that the democratic, liberal, free-market commitments common across the U5 countries are a logical starting point for cooperation, as they can anchor cooperation in common objectives and principles.
There is no such group as the "U5". Google did not know how to translate the article properly from french (but did a reasonably good job), and then the submitter misinterpreted the botched translation.
Finally the slashdot "editor" couldnt be bothered to do any fact-checking, and so here we are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK-USA_Security_Agreement The UK-USA Security Agreement is an agreement or treaty that established an alliance of Anglosphere countries for the purpose of sharing intelligence. The alliance includes Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.
The community is derived from an intelligence sharing agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States signed immediately following the Second World War to capitalize on intelligence relationships built up during that conflict. This formalized the intelligence sharing agreement in the Atlantic charter, signed in 1941, following the cessation of the conflict.
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I submitted this story, and am a french Canadian. The google translation was not wrong, the article really stated "the U5 countries". I did some research after I posted, and found really NO INFORMATION about this "organization". Maybe it's just a term internally used by the Canadian secret services. I'm as confused as you all about the presence of N-Z on such a short list :-)
I know it's pretty oblivious... and I know all the jokes about translating candian to plain english is just to be funny ...
but I'm also pretty sure a lot of people don't know that there is two official languages in Canada... the text is originally in french
original link : http://technaute.cyberpresse.ca/200806/09/nouvelles/internet/18725-cyberattaque-a-ottawa.php
The article actually reads " We have had confirmation from our partners U5 (USA, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada) "
Submitter needs eyeglasses, and an atlas.
Last time I checked, that country name wasn't hyphenated...
Apparently New Zealand has been responsible for Western Pacific regions, while Australia has been "Indochina, Indonesia and southern mainland China." although I'm sure it's not that clean-cut.
This seems like it's aboot to go on forever.
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