National Defence committee  Here's how we got into this position. The Internet was designed to work within government laboratories in the U.S. of the size of about ten; it now connects 12 billion computers, and it's rapidly climbing, with essentially the same technology. Nothing has changed. It was never de

National Defence committee  I think it's instructive to look at the history of intelligence. The British Security Service and the British Security Intelligence Service are still widely known as MI-5 and MI-6 because of their origins in military intelligence. With new, difficult-to-understand technologies an

National Defence committee  Obviously the work they do is classified, so we can't say very much about it here. I think in the post-Second World War period, signals intelligence was largely about satellite dishes and satellites and stuff like that. But since, I guess, the early seventies perhaps signals in

National Defence committee  The people they have with expertise in one of those fields automatically have the expertise in the other fields. So when cyber-intrusion started to become a problem, not only did they understand exactly what was happening at a technical level, but they had probably already done i

National Defence committee  The problem fundamentally is that so much of what we do in every way is computer-mediated. On the Internet itself it's one gigantic connected system, which was never designed to be world scale, and therefore you can get from one place to any other place and more or less do what y

National Defence committee  There are things that can be done, but there is no magic bullet, and therefore it's a case of hardening rather than solving this problem. The trouble with that is it's the weakest link that gets you every time, and it's very hard in advance to decide from what direction you might

National Defence committee  I don't know exactly how these relationships work. Some of them work informally, I know. I don't think there is very much formal connection. It's partly the problem that nobody quite knows who's responsible for anything in this area, so a lot of very scattered things are going on

National Defence committee  The news has broken today that Nortel was infiltrated thoroughly ten years ago and Chinese companies had access to everything that happened inside that company over a decade. That's an interesting object lesson. Before Canadian forces can be deployed anywhere, we have to know tha

National Defence committee  I'll make one quickly.

National Defence committee  Critical Infrastructure Protection.

National Defence committee  Well, at the moment it is, in the rather unusual way that CSE is bolted onto the side of DND. But I think there is a qualitative difference between physical defence of the interests in the land of Canada and the cyberworld, which does not look like that at all. There are places

National Defence committee  I think it's the military instinct whenever the camp is struck: just put up a perimeter. I think that illustrates the mindset—rightly so in that situation. I think they're not the only people who will struggle with this more open view of the world, but they certainly are one of t

National Defence committee  Thank you for the chance to appear. I'd like to talk about two things, the first of which is how intelligence analysis tends to work in the forces, and also in the more civilian world. In general, analysts are trying to find interesting things without quite knowing what they're