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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Open Communication Internet

"If cyber espionage continues to evolve, I will have difficulty managing our resources. It's developing very, very rapidly."
CSIS director Richard Fadden

From Wickileaks to Canada's own naval handover of top level documents to Russian agents, along with the theft of on-line personal data through criminal activity, on through to China's infamous hacking of government and corporate sites, the increasing vulnerability of Internet-based data has become a huge headache. When even the most supposedly secure government sites can be accessed by foreign espionage, another front on the war has opened.

What war? Why, the wars conducted by sinister foreign agents to discover trade secrets from corporate sites, and government secrets from government sites.

And then there is the truly serious alter-business of the kind of espionage that hopes to deter rogue states from their determination to achieve nuclear arms through advanced methods of refining uranium and perfecting missiles; involving corruption worms like Stuxnet.

This is serious business. American news publishers are finding their sites being hacked, and government agencies are increasingly under attack, forcing the implementation of ever tightened security against sinister entry and systems and data retrieval. 
"I think we're OK today, but if counter-intelligence continues to grow and if cyber continues to grow, if you ask me in two years' time, I'm not sure I could look you in the eye and say we're OK."

The increased volume of cyber threats from "two or three states" that have become recognized for the capability to "throw thousands and thousands of people at it", is a matter of grave concern. Securing data from invasive theft has become vital. New international standards, felt Mr. Fadden, to help crack down on these threats, would represent a response to a new kind of warfare.

An example; the need to defend the country against Halifax naval officer Jeffrey Delisle types, convicted and sentenced a week earlier to 20 years in prison. "He sort of chugged along. He was a relatively quiet guy and didn't make a big fuss. And for what it may be worth, that's almost always the case. There are similar cases in Australia, in the United States, the United Kingdom.
"It's the quiet guy who doesn't make a fuss who often succeeds in doing this."

To compound the problem, the primary threats to Canada's international security representing al-Qaeda inspired jihadist extremism. Dozens of Canadians have travelled overseas to be trained in terror techniques and to take part in Islamist activities recently. Some have been inspired by jihadist Internet sites.


And it is not always possible to identify them before the fact; they are among those quiet ones who go astray by recruitment. Extremist groups have focused on recruiting jihadist-receptive individuals with nothing in their backgrounds to alert authorities.

It's one thing, said Mr. Fadden, for CSIS to check the backgrounds of prospective immigrants to Canada, quite another to inspect the activities of all Canadian-born men of Muslim backgrounds in a pluralist society.

The innocent lumped in with the suspected.

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