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UK Launches Dedicated Cyber Security Agency
Jack Spine writes "The UK government is launching an office dedicated to cyber attack and defence. The Office of Cyber Security will focus on protecting Britain's IT infrastructure, and will be similar to the US Cyber Command model. While the Pentagon Cyber Command will be lead by the NSA, the UK Cyber Security Operations Centre, which will coordinate UK cyber efforts, will be based at GCHQ in Cheltenham."
First!
Kiss my ass you British douchebags.
America is better than England, and we are better than you.
Will this department handle weeding out dissenters or is that a different section?
GCHQ is basically the UK NSA. So it looks like the cousins plans are pretty much the same as ours.
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
You might have thought it would be better to fund development of mechanisms to prevent or mitigate DDoS attacks, rather than rely on using them. The bad guys will always be able to command more bots than any legal response could.
...what the US tells us to, don't we?
*sigh*
You feel sleepy. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.
Anyone else want to cyber with me?
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
As in 24 teeth remaining.
...sporting the absolutely worst, most under-developed IT infrastructure in the developed world, will have little to keep check on. Lucky bstrds and their "1mbps Top Tier High-Speed(tm)" ADSL network.
Torchwood? They've coped with the cybermen before.
It seems that before I launch into this letter, I should tell you that Tony Blair is the spawn of Satan. Although not without overlap and simplification, I plan to identify three primary positions on Blair's plaints. I acknowledge that I have not accounted for all possible viewpoints within the parameters of these three positions. Nevertheless, Blair presents one face to the public, a face that tells people what they want to hear. Then, in private, he devises new schemes to turn a deaf ear to need and suffering.
Blair says that the bogeyman is going to get us if we don't agree to his demands. That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. I would like nothing more than to view the realms of pessimism and insurrectionism not as two opposing poles but as two continua. Once we realize that, what do we do? The appropriate thing, in my judgment, is to attack Blair's malice and hypocrisy. I say that because he makes a lot of exaggerated claims. All of these claims need to be scrutinized as carefully as a letter of recommendation from a job applicant's mother. Consider, for example, Blair's claim that the average working-class person can't see through his chicanery. The fact of the matter is that I'm not a psychiatrist. Sometimes, though, I wish I were, so that I could better understand what makes people like him want to flout all of society's rules.
Even though Blair has aired his disapproval of being criticized, I still warrant that I have never been in favor of being gratuitously superstitious. I have also never been in favor of sticking my head in the sand or of refusing to reinforce what is best in people. All the deals he makes are strictly one-way. Blair gets all the rights, and the other party gets all the obligations. While there is inevitable overlap at the edges of political movements, now that I've been exposed to his editorials I must admit that I don't completely understand them. Perhaps I need to get out more. Or perhaps he claims to be supportive of my plan to ensure that we survive and emerge triumphant out of the coming chaos and destruction. Don't trust him, though; he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Before you know it, he'll detach individuals from traditional sources of strength and identityâ"family, class, private associations. Not only that, but Blair uses big words like "parasympathomimetic" to make himself sound important. For that matter, benevolent Nature has equipped another puny creature, the skunk, with a means of making itself seem important, too. Although Blair's remonstrations may reek like a skunk, most people react to Blair's nutty asseverations as they would to having a pile of steaming pig manure dumped on their doorstep. Even when they can cope, they resent having to do so. Speaking of resentment, no one likes being attacked by violent libidinous-types. Even worse, Blair exploits our fear of those attacksâ"which he claims will evolve before the year is over into biological, chemical, or nuclear attacksâ"as a pretext to ensure that all of the news we receive is filtered through a narrow ideological prism. If you think that's scary, then you should remember that Blair's writings are designed to cater to the basest instincts of the most pertinacious goof-offs you'll ever see. And they're working; they're having the desired effect.
Blair's infernal attempt to construct a creative response to my previous letter was absolutely pitiful. Really, Blair, stringing together a bunch of solecistic insults and seemingly random babble is hardly effective. It simply proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is hardly surprising that he wants to declare that the majority of ultra-malign popinjays are heroes, if not saints. After all, this is the same intrusive wisenheimer whose unholy prattle informed us that society is screaming for his histrionics. He has been working under a veil of bureaucracy and secrecy to inflict untold misery, suffering, and distress. Even more remarkable, if he isn't hypocritical, I don't know who is. I stand by what I've writ
Lord West:
"You need youngsters who are deep into this stuff... If they have been slightly naughty boys, very often they really enjoy stopping other naughty boys," he said.
The Daily Telegraph and Guido Fawkes report their websites have suddenly gone down.
Google also appears to be unable to retrieve searches for "MP's Expenses", "Iraq War Public Enquiry", "Is John Bercow the modern Incitatus?", "UK CCTV", "Metropolitan Police brutality", or "MOD data left on hard disc on train", amongst many other things...
But will they have as good a logo as the Office of Government Commerce?
They're going to have to work hard to keep up with the brave efforts of the rest of the government to completely undermine whatever data security actually exists. Leaving unencrypted information on a train? What can man do against such reckless incompetence?
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
A good way to sink more money ! Has anyone see a cyberterrorist ?
here, please do users. BSD/OS 0ver to yet another
The UK has the BEST cyber security known, in the weekend when people MOST have time to do any work to fill in or request this that or other form on a UK government website, they find the website is taken down "for maintenence", every weekend, week in week out. So much for a 24/7 365 information economy the government keep on BS'ing about.
Take Nobody's Word For It.