Australia needs MOAR L33T WHITE HATZ, says Federal Police Australia needs a bunch more experts in disciplines you're barely allowed to discuss here, according to the Australian Federal Police. AFP cyber crime commander David McLean told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV program 730 that “this April alone there was over 3,500 reports from people around Australia in relation …
It is amazing to see the quality of thought available in Canberra and the obvious dead-ends that are being engineered. In their zeal for total state supremacy they have forgotten or are too important to remember that it is the free exchange of ideas that underpins economies not jacked up public servants and their dreams of nirvana. No free exchange of ideas - well just keeping digging up those rocks boys. Perhaps ASIO, the AFP and the AG's office could have their own come to Jesus moment and realise that they are the problem not the solution and that the current government of neo-nuts and their foreign donors and handlers represent a far greater threat to Australia's future security and prosperity than Whitlam ever was. Another decade of non-investment in science and non-interest in maths and lets see how the information capabilities out of Canberra are looking. Perhaps they could outsource defence to India or China or employ 457's like everyone else. Alternately they could pray that someone with some common sense unwinds the dogs breakfast which is the feral government and gets the bureaucracy pointing forwards again.
We have just as bigger problems in the private sector as in government with information sharing. Private invests heavily in R&D and the results are seen as IP, which is often never shared, regardless of whether it should be. Its easier to roll private sector intel into the latest 'next generation' security product and sell it for a quick buck, than give that intel away for free. Government has a role to play here and yes ACSC has some challenges ahead. There is far more to be done on both sides. We need some sort of breach reporting as a catalyst to begin the flow of information sharing, which at this point unless it is PII (personal info), breach reports and the resulting valuable intel rarely sees the light of day. What you see in the news headlines (SONY, TARGET, ANTHEM etc) would not even be the tip of a breach iceberg. Vote 1 mandatory breach reporting to get the information flowing.
Why does Australian Federal police tech recruitment drive smell more like a phishing expedition than a recruitment drive. Develop all the skills they want in private and you pretty much have put a flashing target on your back, come and get me, come and get me, come and get me.
They need to wake up to themselves and hand the technical forensics over to ACMA http://www.acma.gov.au/, and the Asutralian Federal Police can just be field officers. ACMA is going to be whole lot better at recruiting and also far better at security research and analysis. They might have to legalise MJ in the ACT if they way to facilitate willingness moves from coastal cities to Canberra or locate the forensics, investigation and research facility in a more desirable city.
Bringing in experts from overseas would be profoundly stupid, as they pretty much would be guaranteed to get a whole bunch of foreign agents seeking to punch permanent backdoors in Australia computer and communications security, maybe they could also run that as another phishing expedition.
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