Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Fighting cyber crime the Canadian way

Makes ya kinda proud to be a Canadian, don't it?

Way back when the Great White North became aware of cyber-crime and its even more vile cousin, "cyber terror", this most virtuous Nation of Virtue resolved to do something about it.

Committees were struck.

Focus groups were convened.

Geeks by the dozen were interviewed and vetted and hired, and the appropriate facilities were leased.

To much fanfare the Canadian Cyber Incident Report Centre was launched in 2005.

By God, we were gonna be on top of that cyber crime 'n terror like you can't imagine. Staring down the threats from teenage hackers to sophisticated cyber criminals to terror masterminds the world over, Canada stood up and was ready to fight back.

So today the Auditor General's report comes out. Seems that while we do have that agency, it doesn't actually do anything. Other agencies routinely leave it out of the loop when computer systems have been compromised. It operates 9 to 5 from Monday to Friday, and doesn't actually "fight" cyber terror; it makes a record of it.

That's the Canadian way, eh?

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