Canada's Foreign-Inspired "Threat Assessments"Communications Security Establishment Canada's Centre for Cyber Security issued a "National Cyber Threat Assessment 2020" on November 16. To evaluate its assessment it is important to know the criteria it uses. However, neither are these criteria openly explained, nor are they up for discussion. On the contrary, one has to discern the criteria for oneself and seriously think about what criteria would serve the peoples when discussing national security. Without establishing the reference points which serve the peoples and society, the "key judgments" of the Centre for Cyber Security remain unchallenged. Not only that, they are used by the government, by the cartel parties with seats in the House of Commons, and by state agencies across the board to pass laws, criminalize individuals and collectives, and fund war production.
Why China, Russia and Iran need to "steal intellectual property related to combatting COVID-19" when they have minds of their own second to none in the world is a real stretch. It illustrates the high degree of paranoia the intelligence agencies are intent on promoting. Creating hysteria against the target countries is the same method used in the recent period when hysteria against Muslims and Islamophobia were promoted and raised to fever pitch, all the while accusing others of xenophobia. Every Muslim was considered either a terrorist or a potential terrorist and entire countries were invaded and subjected to bombs, assassinations, torture, drone warfare and every conceivable crime against human beings. Evidence of how the ruling circles are creating hysteria to attack China and infiltrate terrorist groups there is the justifications given that such actions defend the Uighurs who are Muslims and presumably not acceptable to the Chinese government. Meanwhile, pogroms organized by the ruling government in India against the Muslim population there were met with silence. Similar arguments are used to justify infiltrating Tibet and organizing anti-China instability there. All of it is a reincarnation of state-organized disinformation to keep the polity diverted, divided and overwhelmed so that it does not establish an agenda which serves its interests and those of humankind. These hysterical threat assessments appear to be designed to make it impossible for the people to address what the rulers themselves are up to. This includes deciding what constitutes a cyber threat, a crime and cyber warfare, that justifies aggression. The assessments are based on an outlook designed to tear Canadians apart based on whether they support or oppose whatever the security agencies say poses a danger to society. The modus operandi is well known. The climate of hysteria is despicable for its harmful anti-social consequences due to the added stress and anxiety and criminalization of people who are dehumanized and categorized as "criminal," or "traitor," or "spy," labels which presumably mean they deserve whatever they have coming to them. It is also quite well understood in many circles that reports that raise the spectre of threats and dangers posed by foreign actors serve to lobby for increased funding for security agencies and all their tools and toys. Massive spending is devoted to cyber security which is linked with the defence industry and war production.
The
striving of the war industry to control artificial intelligence is
driving the narrow private interests involved into a frenzy and,
consequently, entire societies that are subject to their threat
assessments are also made unstable. Obscene sums of money are handed
over to the war industry while members of the polity are criminalized
and anxiety over potential threats becomes the rallying cry for
national unity. Scientific discoveries belong to humanity. The new developments in 5G networks and the scientific advancements made by Chinese scientists in quantum encryption are new forms of mass communications being brought forward by the social productive forces. Such developments are not the property of anyone. This is the greatest significance of these new developments in the experiments in ultra-secure communications which are so important for the functioning of any high speed network. No single entity, whether a nation or corporation can control or monopolize it because it is based on the law of physics which can be applied universally. This is also the case for the fruits of artificial intelligence which tread where science has never even been before. Science and scientific discoveries belong to humanity. The demand of the peoples of the world is to use the products of the technical scientific revolution for the enhancement of the human species.
Against this, the one-sided self-serving view of the rulers of what the ensemble of social relations reveals is clear in each one of the "key judgments" of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. Never once do the authors consider that removing the current anti-democratic system of rule will go a long way to solving the problems societies face. The only concern of those who have usurped power by force is to imbue the entire world with their own profit-motive, in the misguided belief that this will make the peoples of the world hand them riches without question. As the rulers continue to dream in Technicolor, the peoples of the world continue to lay the claims on society for what belongs to them by virtue of being human. They continue to strive for a society which will define rights on that basis. (Photos: VOR, TML)
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The Executive
Summary of the CSE's Centre for Cyber Security's report provides what
it calls seven "Key Judgments." One of its claims is that "threat
actors will almost certainly continue attempting to steal intellectual
property related to combatting COVID-19 to support their own domestic
public health responses or to profit from its illegal reproduction by
their own firms."
One method used,
which is less well understood, is how the security agencies try to
embroil the people in diversions. One is a demand against the
involvement of social media companies in cyber spying, which is a just
demand. However, the security agencies manipulate the anti-war movement
into waging campaigns which are then used to cover up the fact
that the big social media companies are funded by the war department of
the United States from the time they emerge on the scene.
The younger
generation is born to this technology and to a world in which
scientific discoveries are revolutionizing all hitherto comprehension
of the universe. This generation also comprises the majority of those
called cyber actors and cyber criminals. This kind of fearmongering
will only go so far to justify spending on the war industry and its
destructive capacity. The younger generations will develop the
capabilities needed to bring a world of peace, justice and democracy
into being, as they are already doing in many ways. 