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Inside CERT Australia

Posted by samzenpus on from the shiny-red-button dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "The Australian Government has a list of software holes that are so sensitive they're kept hidden from the public. These weaknesses are being used by criminals to steal our money and our data. They may even be a cornerstone to planned attacks on critical infrastructure, like energy, water and transport. But in the murky battle between those that protect us and those who seek to harm, these vulnerabilities are also the bait with which cyber-criminals are caught."

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  1. corporate welfare by Hazel+Bergeron · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TFA:

    The privileged group of more than 300 companies under CERT Australia's wing is expanding, but it does not plan to offer the secretive information more broadly.

    This is corporate welfare at its finest: make the people pay to give a competitive advantage to particular companies.

    When will this primitive targets-based, public-private-partnership experiment born somewhere in the '80s finally collapse? When will parties and their representation in government reflect the people again? Whether left or right, authoritarian or socially liberal, your view is no longer represented unless you've paid for it.