It’s cybersecurity awareness week. So you should be aware that you’re being lied to about cybercrime, who’s behind it, and how your rights and freedoms are under threat.
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CYBERSECURITY
Judging journos’ junkets
Crikey readers talk cybersecurity, journos’ junkets and North Korea.
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Cyberhysteria: Obama criminalises research project (and Crikey?)
The Obama administration’s campaign against the press has extended to criminalising attempts to accurately cover the cybersecurity industry.
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Reveal the truth about cybersecurity, face the wrath of the US
The US government continues to go after computer activists who seek to reveal the truth about the shadowy cybersecurity industry. The latest target is web-hosting company Cloudflare.
READ MOREThe new ACSC: a ‘reasonable illustration’ of a cybersecurity hub?
The government’s much-vaunted new “Cyber Security Centre” will have no legislation, no central leadership and no money. But it will have “unclassified areas”.
READ MOREGender, sexuality and cybersecurity: an online tale
An online rights movement that rejects women turns its back on feminism’s rich tradition of resistance to social control. So what’s going on?
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Why you SHOULD worry about cybercrime (but it’s no war)
Bernard Keane says the federal government’s war on cybercrime is propaganda. But Crikey’s tech guru counters: it might not be a war, but there’s plenty of reasons to be concerned.
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Cybersecurity (and cyberbureaucracy) key for PM’s blueprint
The government’s new National Security Strategy employs the same hysteria about cybersecurity that we’ve seen from other governments.
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Can govts ever discuss cybersecurity without going over the top?
Occasionally, someone in government can talk about cybersecurity without becoming hysterical. But it’s rare.
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The secret deal bringing an $11b US intel giant to Melbourne
The Victorian government won’t reveal the amount of taxpayer funds spent on the set-up of a shadowy US military-linked intelligence operation in the heart of Melbourne. Andrew Crook and Bernard Keane report.
READ MOREMore hyping of the threat of ‘cyber’
Cyber warfare continues to be spruiked by governments as a major threat. Pity they fail to explain where the threat really lies.
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