[LINK] Australian CyberWarfare Battalion

[Kim Holburn]

I'm not sure this sets a good precedent.

Don't we have a law that the defence forces are not allowed to be used in domestic issues?  

How do you propose to demarcate?  There are no borders on the internet.


On 2013/Aug/05, at 9:03 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:

> This is to propose the Australian Defence Force (ADF) raise an 
> Australian CyberWarfare Battalion (ACWB) of 300 personnel, to protect 
> Australia's national information infrastructure. All but a small cadre 
> would be reserve military personnel who have full time jobs as computer 
> security professionals. After very basic military training, personnel 
> would be issued with secure communications and return to their 
> workplace. Personnel would remain in touch with each other monitoring 
> computer security threats. In the event of a large scale attack, most of 
> the Battalion would stay in their workplaces to protect infrastructure, 
> while a small number would deploy to industry, government and military 
> centers to coordinate operations.
> 
> More at: 
> http://blog.tomw.net.au/2013/08/australian-cyberwarfare-battalion.html
> 
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