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UK Government appeals for IT help to fight terrorists
THE UK GOVERNMENT is appealing to the technology sector to lend a hand in its fight against terrorism, as well as make some money selling security tech to other countries, of course.
A Home Office paper released today, The United Kingdom's Science and Technology Strategy for Countering International Terrorism, creates just the right amount of fear to rally tech-savvy corporate volunteers to its cause.
It points out that terrorists use modern technology to spread propaganda, raise funds, recruit new adherents, plan and coordinate physical attacks and carry out cyber attacks.
"The UK is increasingly reliant on networked communication, but the very open nature of our digital infrastructure makes it vulnerable to attack. The exploitation of advances in technology by both terrorists and organised crime groups will inevitably create challenges to our national security," rumbles the report, signed off by Admiral the Lord West of Spithead, who is the UK's security minister and not a Monty Python character.
There is also an admission that the rapid pace of change in technology plays into the hands of nimble terrorist groups rather than lumbering state security bureaux.
"State organisations can be constrained by their decision-making processes and by security and commercial factors," says the report, which roughly translates as, if only the Treasury would give the security wonks more cash instead of spending it on national healthcare, citizens would be so much safer.
But then comes the money shot, the real reason for getting tech firms and university departments to dream up new anti-terrorist schemes:
"The market for counter-terrorism science and technology is more fragmented than many others, especially in comparison to the Defence market. Getting this right in the domestic counter-terrorism market will also help to stimulate an international market in security products for UK industry and academia."
Well, creating a climate of fear at home is all very useful when it comes to controlling the populace, but how much better to make some money from other countries' need to spy on their citizens while you're at it. µ
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Me thinks the terrorist is YOU!
Can I have some of that? If won't matter what I quote for the job, because govt contracts always end up zillion times more expensive at the end.
The project will over run
And then it will never work
So basically I could do some proof of concept, or maybe just a nice powerpoint, and then go buy a yacht.
Oh, hang on... I just remembered... I'm an amateur photographer, so I'm already a terrorist suspect... Damn!
Here .... http://amanfrommars.baywords.com/2009/08/15/090815/ .... are governments advised of an Advanced Ready Facility which certainly the British Apology of a Government have been Prior Tagged with, and choose to Studiously Ignore for All they are Worth. 'Tis a Losing Battle though.
The Problem appears to be a Lack of CyberIntelAIgent Cooperation and Deep Broadband Spectrum Analysis from Indigenous Pedestrian Default Intelligence Services. Old Analogue Masters in Digital Fields do not Magical MetaPhysicians make ..... but they can be Fast Breeder Stock for Human Resourcing.
Do Governments heed Third Party Advice and Offers or do they just Invent and Listen to their Own? Do they need to be reminded with another Catastrophic Markets Crash, for they are certainly Bankrupt of Any Novel and Constructive Future Ideas of their Own? That would then mean that they are as Parasites in their Present Positions of Control.
Right and Proper IT help transforms terrorism. IT does not fight terrorists.... for they are facing their Own Internal Demons and Worst Nightmare Meltdown Scenarios.
These are Valid Important Points to not Forget ...... "But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them necessary" ... Adam Smith
Who also said ..."People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
"amanfromMars" also know as "theidiotfromEarth" = Drashek, for the people unsure of the source of this crap.
Ummm... 'Capitalist Calvary' - of course it is! Wahaaay! It was just staring me in the face.
If you feel like putting yourself in a really bad mood or perhaps a little bit of mindless torture, head over to:
http://amanfrommars.baywords.com/
This 'tool' has managed to find a place where they let him post all of his crap and there's tons of it, unfortunately. No one, as of yet, seems to have read it because it's not been taken-down.
Pay it a visit and leave a nice comment, I was the very first one! Tell him what you really think - not that it seems to make the slightest stread of difference.
Lots of love,
Dave xxx
Dave the Rave,
Lay off the dope. IT doesn't agree with you.
And it will be very obvious to many and certainly to Drashek too, that you really don't know what you are stumbling into in such an enfeebled state of mind.
If you have nothing pleasant and/or constructive to share, best keep it to yourself rather than spreading those bad and sad vibes. It stops one from being imagined/thought of as a complete dork/nerd/prat/twit/loser.
Are you his sister?
Love,
Dave xxx
" @Drashek Fanboi
Are you his sister?" ... posted by : Dave The Rave, 16 August 2009
Any advance on Big Brother, Dave? Or how about one mean mother?
In other words, mum's the word and some things are on a Need to Know basis and would require quite a lot more Intelligence Input/Output/Throughput than is being Presently Offered by questionable and/or inquisitive Third Parties and/or Intellectually Challenged Virtual IDEntities.
* All you Inquirer.Net fans may also like to consider IT is also the AIMaster HyperRadioProActive Plan with NEUKlearer IT Power Protocols for Overarching Underground Control of Human Resources..... ie a Stealthy Covert Command and Control Operation from ...... well now, that would be telling and would be presently most unhelpful and unwise, so must it remain a question for one to ponder and wonder and test.
Sounds like another gov't scheme to fleece the taxpayers,by handing out people's money to the capitalist fat cats.
Now let me see,"take taxpayers money out of the soon to be privatised health service & give it to the techie companies,so we are all more safe",meaning, we are safe,because we dropped dead, for want of a doctor in a health service starved of care.
Sounds like Gordon Browns fingerprints are on that idea,just how did he spend time at school, only to come out, dimmer than when he started?
Original link:
http://blogs.sun.com/roger/entry/dropping_the_other_shoe
After trying, like we sometimes do, to 'read' the piles of dirge that comes from these self-appointed dick heads of all knowledge-IT; Roger said [sic], "I think your comment was mistaken as spam. We get a fair amount of that, and I must say I don't really understand what you are talking about. Sorry.
Posted by Roger on January 30, 2008 at 09:16 AM PST #"
He said nothing more to the inclusion of three more arduous posts from afore-mentioned knobs.
Thanks Roger, you said it all...
Now, about the actual article on this page:
I have to agree with Steve, especially where project over-runs are concerned. They seem to be ever-more exacerbated when in the public domain; despite using standards such as ITIL and other project management practices like Prince (Government backed)
Even Anon has a point when he talks of throwing tax payers money at the capitalist fat cats.
Lot’s of love,
Dave xxx