BBC News - UK infrastructure faces cyber threat, says GCHQ chief Director Iain Lobban
GCHQ Director Iain Lobban speaks out about risk and threat which also includes fundamental functioning of the UK as it does for any other country and the world. While he doesn't explicitly note Toxic Surveillance, he edges close it: It is most unusual to hear from him, and he addresses a critically important problem.
"While 80% of the threat to government systems could be dealt with through good information assurance practice - such as keeping security "patches" up to date - the remaining 20% was more complex and could not simply be solved by building "higher and higher" security walls." Read this as Tempest aka Toxic Surveillance.
" "There's a clear defensive angle. In order to flourish, a knowledge economy needs to protect from exploitation the intellectual property at the heart of the creative and high-tech industry sectors. It needs to maintain the integrity of its financial and commercial services." "
I am a victim of this and have been for almost a decade since February 2001 as I keep describing, but this overall threat and the destruction against me are from the government itself. He needs to address the threat from within as well as outside, otherwise there will be insurmountable moral and debilitating cynicism problems which will have the impact of terrorism without a bomb going off.
He will have to listen to the complaints of people like me. Reports that I generated at USAF Security Service HQ from March 1962 to October 1963 were copied to GCHQ. GCHQ relied upon that reporting from the office where I worked then. It will have to rely on that same reporting today by focusing on the content's validity. How does one send anything to GCHQ anyway these days?
