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Government of Canada's Plan To Improve Cybersecurity? Be Less Attractive (eweek.com)
darthcamaro writes: Though Justin Trudeau is the envy of many world leaders for his likeability, the head of of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security at the Canadian Security Establishment (CSE), which helps to protect federal government networks says that his agency is trying to make Canada less attractive -- to hackers.
Speaking at the SecTor conference in Toronto Scott Jones said:
"By doing the basics, you're making the adversaries that come after you deploy more advanced tools and techniques, and you just might not be worth the expense," Jones said. "My ultimate goal is to make Canada unattractive to cyber-criminals and data hackers, because our community is vigilant and engaged so much so that threat actors aren't enticed to even attack us."
Speaking at the SecTor conference in Toronto Scott Jones said:
"By doing the basics, you're making the adversaries that come after you deploy more advanced tools and techniques, and you just might not be worth the expense," Jones said. "My ultimate goal is to make Canada unattractive to cyber-criminals and data hackers, because our community is vigilant and engaged so much so that threat actors aren't enticed to even attack us."
While "world leaders" are focused on Trudeau's hair and nice sounding platitudes of diversity and at the same time apoplectic at whatever Trump's latest tweet is, he's running circles around us in advancing their interests. I'd trade Trudeau for Trump any day of the week, perhaps it's because I don't case so much for his personal views or the daily rage of mainstream media misinterpreting his comments.
Um, dude, Trudeau tricked Trump into signing a NAFTA plus TPP deal with some TPIP thrown in.
It's called "winning". Yes, I know, Orange Jesus has you believing Losing Badly is "winning", but in Canada, winning is "winning".
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He's talking about Canada, which is run by rationals, not the US, where irrational, anti-pleasure, religious drug warriors still hold power.
That would probably have the opposite effect. No one in Russia would be part of troll farm companies that are designed to influence opinions if they had better alternatives for earning an income. Part of the reason that's an issue is because even though Russia cast off the Soviet-era central planning, the oligarchy that replaced it has no interest in embracing free market ideals when it might challenge their control, but another issue is that the rest of the world has sanctioned Russia to the extent that it makes it difficult for legitimate commerce to occur. Naturally, this means an expanse in shady (or outright illegal) enterprise.
If you think that trying to punish them economically will crush them, remember that Russians managed the longest run of any Communist country and the self-inflicted economic misery it brings. They're too proud to capitulate to western demands and they've been through worse economically and within recent memory for many of their citizens. Open up markets to them and create better economic opportunity and many of them are likely to act on that. It won't eliminate the troll farms, but it will make them more expensive, or subject them to outsourcing.