[LINK] Australian CyberWarfare Battalion

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 11:20 +1000, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 10:59 AM 8/08/2013, Karl Auer wrote:
> >All of these things can be done by ordinary employees, of course; the
> >difference is that these people may be protected by their military
> >function, leaving the host organisation harmed and without recourse.
> >Hence my question.
> 
> Or their political function.

Yes. And the additional problem that military and political can get very
confused - we see the disastrous result in the present NSA shenanigans.

> Isn't it interesting that various power blocks say they believe in 
> democracies and transparency, until their own power interests are 
> challenged. Which then leads to the rest of us saying, if you can't 
> beat 'em, join 'em.

I don't understand that last sentence.

Regards, K.

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