Government plans cyberweapons programme Whitehall officials have revealed that work has begun on a range of offensive cyberweapons to add to its defensive capability. It is understood that the Cabinet Office and the Cyber Security Operations Centre at GCHQ have taken the lead on the issue, and that in time there will be some input from the Ministry of Defence. The …
The General doesn't NEED to know anything about cyber security. He applies common battlefield theory and says 'okay, so here's a list of attack vectors. Block them.' to his technical people.
Like he says, the basic ideas of defence can be transferred across from the real world to 'cyberspace'; you need to prevent enemy incursions into your territory, set up your infrastructure comms so you can't have fraudulent commands sent, prevent enemy agents within your territory from communicating with their superiors- and track them down so they can be removed.
The actual 'okay, so how do we do that?' makes bugger all difference to the people at the top. Moss would be a pretty terrible military leader, but if you needed someone to design a system to a spec he's totally the guy to do it!
"The actual 'okay, so how do we do that?' makes bugger all difference to the people at the top. Moss would be a pretty terrible military leader, but if you needed someone to design a system to a spec he's totally the guy to do it!"
So I guess El Reg should shorten future references to General Jonathan Shaw to "Jen" instead..
And who do they think they are fooling other than themselves?
"It is understood that the Cabinet Office and the Cyber Security Operations Centre at GCHQ have taken the lead on the issue, and that in time there will be some input from the Ministry of Defence."
Understood by whom? And from where do you think this AIMODified input comes from ...... http://amanfrommars.blogspot.com/2011/05/110530-and-right-royal-airing-of-deeds.html ? The Ministry of Silly Walks?
How come the paras get a general? There's not that many of 'em, surely!
Que starship troopers esque monologue on officer numbers etc.
This is a whinge. Before anyone tells me off, I will give my understanding of how cap badges work.
Our general here was commissioned into the paras, so thats where his cap badge stays.
In the british army, officers keep their home regiment cap badge, and don't change it when they move positions, or even regiments. So, while he may be an officer of the Parachute Regiment, its quite likely he hasn't been based with them for a while, hence his posting into cyber warfare, and hence his higher thank might be expected rank. For all we know he's been with the signals regiment, or in GCHQ doing this type of work for ages.
I don't think that this detracts from my whinge about the number of officers relative to ranks.
Not quite correct. Officers of field rank (ie up to Lt Col) wear the cap badge of their corps or regiment, but members of the general staff (full colonele and above) wear the general staff badge. Many senior officers will continue to wear the beret of their previous regiment (eg maroon for the paras, sand coloured for the SAS etc). The only example of deviation from this dress code was, famously, Field Marshal Montgomery who wore the general staff badge and his tank corps badge together: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Bernard_Law_Montgomery.jpg/250px-Bernard_Law_Montgomery.jpg
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