security – The Lateral Hazard

Another media scramble, more accusations on political donations, and all we can hear is the sound of cash registers of the legal profession as loud as the F16 over West Ippy.

Like it or not the CCC in Queensland are doing a job of public transparency and shaking the trees of our elected or public appointees if they smell a rat, and rightly so, therefore I am completely astounded why this Federal Government is so dead against a Federal ICAC while the rest of Parliament see it as common sense..

Not often do you witness a political party under scrutiny itself call for greater powers to weed out corruption, fraud, or other offences at the highest level which begs the question of why this Federal Government wants to block it.

It fought doggedly against the Bank Enquiry, the investigation into Child Abuse in the Churches and other monumental cases all of which proved wrongdoing at the highest level and still would have been thriving if let be.

Yes that rat is smelling more and more the longer this government tries to delay its being and like all the other instances the chook will come home to roost.

It is now with monotonous regularity we are alerted that our security has or has the potential to be infringed.

At a cost of billions governments has set up new Departments, employed millions of staff and in fact created a total industry that obviously far off the pace of the hackers.

We always know why as the excuses are so repetitious but how is never actually revealed and not shocking that most of the alleged hackers are coming from countries with closed networks.

In our exuberance to open ourselves to privatisation we surrendered security of our communication system to the shareholder, and anyone that paraded as a communications employee was given instant access to our exchanges, pillars and cross connecting equipment. Even today no one challenges a unmarked ute or van parked outside a business , house or now fibre distribution point as most have been conditioned that’s its legitimate activity.

Those of us who were trained in communication security before privatisation predicted this viral trend and was duly redundant.

As the network now is more condensed yet more accessible to the would be perpetrators, security is now left to on site cyber walls owned and operated by commercial interests. Yep that’s safe, you must agree?

It’s up to governments, not commercial interests to protect our commercial and private data and subletting accountability is not acceptable, and every time you hear or see security breaches remember its self inflicted and think how good privatisation of our communication carriage has made Australia, and if it’s personally worth it.

Then in saying that if you’ve never had it you’ll never know, until it’s you that’s hacked.

Well with this new bloke Snowden tipping the bucket, joins the que along with Assange and Manning on letting us punters know what is happening behind the scenes.
The politicians know, the public servants know, the terriosts know, so it should not be a surprise to any of us should it.
I keep hearing the spiel ” if your not doing anything wrong then you should not be concerned if your privacy is impeded”. Yep that’s a point but are we entitled to any “privacy”in 2013. That’s a question or do we just surrender it in the name of “Freedom”.
Well if you think that’s the case and privacy is not a issue , walk around naked, and see how far that gets you. The government will understand, and so will the police when you picked up.
I believe in security and intelligence gathering but we are at a stage where we are guilty until proven innocent in this scenario. If this blog is seen as threatening I will be targeted by some paranoid Peter in a dark room somewhere in cyber world and from my mother upwards can be tracked because they can.
Is that Freedom of expression? No it’s now become intimidation. Paranoid Intimidation of about 99% of all Internet users to try and catch someone who already knows what the game rules are.
No I believe terrisom is a excuse to gather intelligence to sell to corporates on our habits and trends for marketing in true capitalistic fashion for getting the jump on those who do not have access to the data.
No one has asked the question what the providers are being paid or the price of government access and who gets the data after capture and for what price.
A viable little business you must agree if you are part of the “joke”.
Highlighting Manning, Assange and now Snowden takes the focus off the real game and the chest beating by governments keeping us scared, so they can protect us from…….

Tag: security

Cyber Attack Self Inflicted.

Secure from What?