The Auditor General of Canada released a report on the federal government's cyber security. A lot are making a big deal out of it, but it's honestly not that bad. A lot of what we already knew, but I think this means I need to write why.

www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/Eng...

The Government of Canada wants to invest in AI and cloud data centres. Their mixed signals suggest they may not fully understand what this entails yet.

www.cyberincontext.ca/p/canadas-mi...

This isn't the only bill that would give Trump sweeping new authorities.

www.cyberincontext.ca/p/america-wa...

There's a lot of potential in Canada, it just needed investment at least a decade ago. As much as I dislike the state of Canada's telecoms, they could have and still could get into the business quite readily, but it needs both investment and policy support at fed and provincial levels.

> No serious investment in Canadian cloud for defence

> Canadians when they find out the Canadian government and military rely on American cloud providers

Is this a preview of your future YouTube food review channel?

Since sovereign cloud is in the news again today...

Great scoop from @martinmatishak.bsky.social: The Trump administration has abandoned any intention of breaking up the joint leadership of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, bowing to the reality of the enormous complexity of the task.

The Pentagon depends on commercial clouds without a doctrine to defend them. That gap is a liability rivals will exploit.

Dangerous thing about LLMs is not that they produce PhD level work. They don’t.

It’s that they produce junior researcher level work. Flawed but decent material you can work with.

So you ditch your farm team to save money. 10 years later your senior researcher bullpen is empty and you’re cooked 1/3

Posting Woods of Ypres until @canadianshieldinstitute.ca includes them in their newsletter.

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In a DoD shake-up, Ashley Manning, the principal deputy assistant secretary of Defense for cyber policy, and Jonathan Owen, the acting deputy assistant secretary of Defense for homeland defense integration and defense support to civil authorities, have left the Pentagon.
thehill.com/policy/defen...

New information from @canadianshieldinstitute.ca in their first "The National Interest" newsletter

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“Less shy. More aggressive.”

BDC is preparing a 360-degree plan to support Canada’s defence tech ecosystem—from dual-use startups to indirect fund investments.

The House Homeland bill to renew the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has been dubbed the Widespread Information Management for the Welfare of Infrastructure and Government Act, or WIMWIG: www.govinfo.gov/app/details/...

My fellow neurodivergent hackers are in shambles.

A key paper I have been trying to track down has so far only been found on a malware analysis website because someone submitted it to test it for malware.

Ed Snowden replied-all to a supervisor with an all-caps screed and was made to apologize to everyone on the email. His downloading of classified documents began the next day.

The DNI comments that he cites as his reasons for action didn't happen until two weeks later.

wild how people want to get rid of autistic trans people and think that the Internet would still work

I'm in the meme phase of this chapter

Consumer credit reporting giant TransUnion warns it suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of over 4.4 million people in the United States.

This is an entire article about how city employees are barred from speaking to the press without permission and how weird that is for a U.S. city.

It is also incredibly routine and basically the default in Canada….

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A lone cybercriminal used Anthropic's vibe-coding LLM to automate a massive spree that hacked and extorted 17 companies. It did almost everything for him: Scoped out who to hack and how, organized the hacked material, helped him decide how much to ask each company for and wrote his extortion emails.