They drink beer and whisky, just like us
Grew up near the border. Always thought of Canadians as a sub-set of Americans, with funny pronunciations and better manners.
While the NSA headlines most of Ed Snowden's revelations of mass surveillance, the latest leaked documents reveal the Canadians are a dab hand at cyber-stuff, both defensive and offensive. Top-secret files, published by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and The Intercept, show that Canuck intelligence has developed its own …
Hello Southerner,
Thank you for the compliment (I think).
A correction if I may - we are not a sub-set of America. Although we left Her on different terms, you and I are, for the most part, a subset of the UK culturally. Exemptions obviously apply; it's a large continent and I do not wish to be associated with Budweiser any more than you do I'm sure.
Warmest regards from your Northern neighbour.
PS. Chesterfield.
PPS. colour, flavour, behaviour, harbour, honour, humour, labour, rumour, splendour.
Calm down chaps! Methinks you're both right!...
After all, Canadians are a subset of Americans. Just as Mexicans, Panamanians, Venezuelans, Cubans, Peruvians, the poor stateless Puerto Ricans, Guatemalans, Yanks, etc. are also "a subset of Americans". Perhaps OP is a supporter of one of the Canadian contributions to Americana like "American football" and therefore understands the term correctly.
The news story didn't quite quote it correctly. The number refers to items of network traffic that were believed to be associated with a "threat". In other words, emails, HTTP GETs, log-in attempts, etc. that looked unusually suspicious. The slides date from 2009, so I imagine the numbers are a lot bigger today.
The original source wasn't clear, but it appears that this number may be an aggregate across the entire "5 eyes" rather than just counting "threats" directed at Canada alone.
As for the "125GB of internet traffic per hour", that's counting just the "metadata", not the full network traffic that goes with it. I also imagine that they've increased these numbers considerably in the past half dozen years.
If the U.S. and U.K. are doing it, then Canada is doing it too (or taking their own path at least). Anyone who thinks Canada is just sitting there "waiting it out", well, you might be right but they still have to wait defensively. But Canada should be fine, because to most non-Canadians, Canada seems like a hooker with 2 pimps, so that's a lot of protection (U.K./U.S...Somebody had to say it!!!).
Anyways, if this article really seems like news to anyone, then clearly we need more Snow.
Okay so it doesn't represent the current state of affairs. I'm willing to accept that.
I have no doubt that they not longer have the ability to process just 125GB per hour and store 300TB. The only implication that a sensible person would draw, however, is that their capabilities are greatly increased from those meager numbers.
Funny, I just pretty much said the same thing, minus the Sony part :)
"running false flag ops"
Compare and contrast with:
"claims it has the ability to run "false flag" operations"
Even the most nutty conspiracy theorists don't tend to accuse Canada of much, and given that the point of false flag operations is to create an excuse to attack or otherwise discredit an opponent there really doesn't seem to be much point in them doing so since, unless my awareness of global politics is rather off the mark, Canada isn't actually looking for any such excuse at the moment. I have little doubt that any spy agency would love to have the ability just in case in might come in handy, and would likely claim to have it just to make themselves look good even if they didn't, but that's very different from accusing them of actively engaging in such things as the article title does.
You forget the first rule of investigative journalism:
"If they have the capability to do something, the they most certainly have done it, lack of evidence be damned (And if they produce evidence showing they haven't done something, accuse them of covering it up or hiding the facts)."
You have to take anything Snowden the Traitor says with a grain of salt. Let him rot in Ruskieland.
Canada isn't a sub-set of the US but maybe sometimes guinea pigs. after all McDonald's pizza [remember that?] was first tested in Canada before entering the US [the pizza logo used was created by a Canadian].