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Aussie Spies Spooked By Cyberwar
An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks cables released overnight revealed that Australia's top cyber spy agency (akin to the NSA) was unprepared for cyberwar in the view of other intelligence agencies in 2008. Australian agencies were so concerned they asked US intelligence to provide the framework to defend the country's critical information infrastructure, modelling on the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative. Spooks also discussed how Israel was preparing to take down Iran's nuclear program and how to stay relevant when so much information that was classified was now open source and available to anyone."
We have the only submarines on the planet that can be heard from Alpha Centauri. It's not surprising we're sh*t-scared of cyberwar.
...asking the US for tips on information security wasn't probably the best idea.
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"...to stay relevant when so much information that was classified was now open source and available to anyone."
They are now in much the same situation with cables such as this being "open source and available to anyone".
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Spooks also discussed how Israel was preparing to take down Iran's nuclear program and how to stay relevant when so much information that was classified was now open source and available to anyone.
Well, they got *that* part right.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Disconnect it from the Internet.
Didn't read--cable 08CANBERRA1157 classified secret and marked not for foreign eyes.
Dang.
Analysts were required to be efficient intelligence processing units whose effectiveness was "determined by the speed and efficiency by which [they] can sift through the volume to highlight 'what is important' and put it into context for decision makers"
Perl
What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
are you right wing americans happy now ? peace ?
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Nice to know that all those DSD guys promoting themselves, saying they're on the cutting edge of IT Security, near the graduation of us Australian ITSec students were full of shit.
MHO of what you need to commit cyber crime with impunity in Australia is; a computer and Internet access. As long as you are not a total moron, I think it would be very difficult for the AG to win a case without substantial (FBI) international help.
General Jack D. Ripper: unity100, do you recall what Assange once said about cyberwar?
unity100: No, I don't think I do, sir, no.
General Jack D. Ripper: He said cyberwar was too important to be left to the hacktivists. When he said that, 50 weeks ago, he might have been right. But today, cyberwar is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Wikileaks infiltration, Wikileaks indoctrination, Wikileaks subversion and the international Wikileaks conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
They have electricity in Oz? Whodathunkit.
The subs are expensive things that whoever is in opposition likes to complain about and whoever is in government likes to use for pork. Minor problems were blown out of proportion, sometimes even after they had been fixed. Then there were things like expensive modifications were done to allow for extremely dodgy procurement deals which kept the subs out of the water. "Free trade" talks with the USA were not going well and it was difficult to get access to some people in US government, then suddenly there was a plan to buy a lot of surplus torpedoes of a size nobody makes anymore and modify the subs so that they will fit. The talks then went ahead and it was a problem for a later government to modify the subs again once that lot of torpedoes is unusable.
It's not just subs, there was the purchase of the sprightly old Sea Sprites which were not safe to fly over water and had been considered obsolete in the 1970s. It had to be corruption because stupidity of that level would be inconsistant with making it to an adult age alive.
I'm not sure why this is news? They realized a weakness and asked someone they thought had more knowledge for help. Thats what I EXPECT them to do.
When I know I'm out of my league and well beyond my knowledge base I ask someone else who's been doing it longer or more for some input.
Go on ya, Aussies, hope we gave you something useful. Maybe one day you can return the favor for some of the things you're better than us at.
As the song goes, Thats what friends are for.
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Y'see? Chucking shrimp on the barbie will only get you so far "mate" until you have to call in the pros. Silly drongos.
except that the "more knowledgable expert", has had their power grid given the how you doing
Their pentagon email routed to another country and have their confidential files published on the internet.
kind of like going to a boxer that mike tyson (in his prime), wiped the floor with and asking him to train you .....
or
asking GM how to run a successful car making company
sure we can detect one's unawareness from amount of abuse of the prefix CYBER
Is that supposed to be a pun Spook=spy It wasn't funny at all
"won't somebody please help me, a dingo stole my packet!"
Consensus seems to be appointing a knowledgeable minster or whatever they have over there would resolve the problem. Instead they got some dummo with a political agenda to push.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
They're so busy trying to build a firewall to censor web sites that they didn't get around to building a firewall for actual security purposes.