In this article, people who are perpetually wrong about cyber conflict are surprised when they are again wrong about cyber conflict.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/o...

Opinion: The U.S. isn’t happy about Canada’s quest for digital sovereignty Countries are converging on laws that grant them greater control over where their data lives and who has access

My Globe op-ed on the U.S.’s two-pronged strategy over data. First, leverage the CLOUD Act to assert jurisdiction over data wherever it is stored. Second, treat responses that involve data localization rules or sovereign AI initiatives as a trade barrier.

My advisors: hoW WILl YOU FInD CHiNEse SouRces!?

China: Here is our 2nd five-year plan to implement our ten-year goal of becoming a cyber great power, which better aligns with our 50-year strategy to become the super duper cyber hegemon.

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Iranian influence operations got nothing on the lobbying industry, I mean, government relations industry in Canada.

“The FSB said the man, a resident of Chita in eastern Siberia who was born in 1960, had supplied information via Telegram to Ukrainian intelligence on a local print publication and about a ⁠critical infrastructure object in the region.”

Anecdote #924 indicating Russian access to Telegram chats.

a woman is laughing and saying `` i laugh to keep from crying '' . ALT: a woman is laughing and saying `` i laugh to keep from crying '' .

This instantly brought back reminders of why I don't generally submit to academic journals anymore.

Thanks, @billrobinson.bsky.social!

Everything You Should Know About CAF Cyber Command To be a Catalyst for Innovative Canadian Global Engagement

Excellent primer on CAFCYBERCOM by @cyberincontext.ca www.cgai.ca/th_pp_everyt...

Canadian Cyber News Rewire - 4/04/26 Wiring you into the cyber news relevant to Canada the week ending April 4

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Everything You Should Know About CAF Cyber Command To be a Catalyst for Innovative Canadian Global Engagement

I have another new paper out with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute about the Canadian Armed Forces Cyber Forces, this time specifically about CAFCYBERCOM.

www.cgai.ca/th_pp_everyt...

We built a communications system intended to be so redundant it could survive a nuclear war and now it struggles anytime there's a rainy day at an Amazon server farm.

Everything You Should Know About CAF Cyber Command To be a Catalyst for Innovative Canadian Global Engagement

I have another new paper out with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute about the Canadian Armed Forces Cyber Forces, this time specifically about CAFCYBERCOM.

www.cgai.ca/th_pp_everyt...

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of model UN students suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

On the contrary, Microsoft is so bad at security that the US government's Cyber Safety Review Board (under Biden) specifically called out Microsoft's management for incentivizing ignoring security.

Microsoft pledged to do better, but they recently rescinded the pledge. Microsoft is dangerous.

A summary of the UKUSA geographic division of effort for SIGINT collection and processing in 1979.
luxexumbra.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-su...

Excerpt from a 1979 document about the Canadian signals intelligence program: "Sigint Intelligence Production[:] The intelligence tasks of the Canadian SIGINT organization have evolved over the years in cooperation with collaborating SIGINT agencies and in consultation with the Canadian intelligence community. They have included the civil and military activities and organizations in the Soviet Arctic, and the production of intelligence relating to surveillance of Canadian territory and to security. The scope of the SIGINT effort has been broadened by diverting resources to the exploitation of [redacted] and by extending the study of the Soviet economy particularly energy. In general, the SIGINT efforts of the collaborating agencies, while overlapping to some degree, emphasize national interests and reflect collection capabilities. The Australian and New Zealand efforts are directed to China, Japan and South East Asia. The U.K. effort is targetted generally against the Soviet Union, European and East European countries, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and sub-Saharan Africa. The U.S. effort can be categorized as world-wide in scope and is extensively coordinated within the AUS/CAN/UK/OS/NZ community."

Nice description in this declassified Canadian document from 1979 of the geographic breakdown of SIGINT activities among the Five Eyes countries.

National security exemptions go both ways.

Americans just can't comprehend that they're the security risk in mind.

Robert E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial YouTube video by Full House Without Michelle

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nANo...

An old, civil-war era picture of Confederate traitor Robert E. Lee, but they have been photoshopped and replaced with E.T. from the movie E.T.

Robert E.T. Lee approves.

John Scott Railton Shares Tips and Tools to Protect Yourself Digitally YouTube video by Global Investigative Journalism Network

Stop scrolling & watch this.

Follow along. Get safer.

This especially matters if you're pissing off the powerful.

Thanks to @gijn.org for putting this together.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsPY...

I have a new oped out with Digital Journal. I argue that in the face of vibecoding and AI's impact on software development, the Canadian government needs a secure-coding. Luckily, @shehackspurple.bsky.social already has one: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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National Cyber Authority: 50 Israeli companies 'digitally erased' The head of the National Cyber Authority reveals the scope of Iran's cyberattacks against Israel and warns that the war in cyberspace will continue even after a ceasefire.

Data-wiping attacks were reported at 50 Israeli organizations

Attacks were linked to 20 different groups

www.israelnationalnews.com/news/424483

Watchdog finds little oversight over multi-billion-dollar Indigenous procurement program - National | Globalnews.ca Procurement watchdog’s probe says Canada can’t 'credibly demonstrate' that Indigenous businesses are benefitting from multi-billion dollar procurement program.

Canada's procurement watchdog says he's never seen anything as bad as the federal government's management of Indigenous procurement. His report has some shocking details: globalnews.ca/news/1174619...

You know something is truly evil with no soul when The Woz's disappointment in you has zero impact.

"Everything is just code" is the reason so many of our current techfascists believe they have already won. They quite literally have never done anything except code apps, and so now that they can tell a computer "go code this app" they believe they own a magical god slave.

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So, all non-US-made routers are now banned in the United States. This is pretty nuts.

www.fcc.gov/document/fcc...

Canadian Cyber News Rewire - 21/03/26 Wiring you into the cyber news relevant to Canada the week ending March 21

The latest Canadian Cyber in Context Canadian Cyber News Rewire is now out. I bring together cyber-related news concerning Canada from the past week. A lot is going on, including a new data centre, Bill C-22, and phishing emails to journalists with IP tracers.

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