Across the consultation documents, the proportionality assessment for each rollback follows the same pattern: a measure was proposed, providers objected to its cost or practicality, and the measure was dropped, softened or delayed...
Scoop: Britain has weakened proposed cybersecurity protections for its telecoms networks that were developed in response to the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, after the companies responsible for implementing the measures lobbied against them.
Scoop: Britain has weakened proposed cybersecurity protections for its telecoms networks that were developed in response to the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, after the companies responsible for implementing the measures lobbied against them.
Neither the government nor the industry has confirmed whether the China-linked Salt Typhoon campaign compromised networks in the United Kingdom. But @ncsc.gov.uk has said Chinese hackers “targeted organisations in critical sectors” globally, including “a cluster of activity observed in the UK.”
The government has in other circumstances published such proportionality assessments. Three weeks after the telecoms consultation closed, DSIT shared independent research estimating cyberattacks cost the UK's economy £14.7 billion, versus £590m implementation costs: therecord.media/british-gov-...
Only a very broad, passing reference to how the National Security (State Threats) Bill introduced to Parliament today would interact with the issue of (potentially unscrupulous? a debate for another time) journalists using state-hacked materials in their reporting: www.gov.uk/government/p...
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In some greater length, here's a LinkedIn article about why Signal and the UK govt are both wrong, and what could work ⤵️
None of the published assessments account for the cost of a successful hostile-state intrusion into UK telecoms infrastructure. This is one-sided accounting, as we were told by Rob Bratby and Ciaran Martin.
Britain has weakened proposed cybersecurity protections for its telecoms networks that were developed in response to the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, after the companies responsible for implementi...
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Britain has weakened proposed cybersecurity protections for its telecoms networks that were developed in response to the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, after the companies responsible for implementi...