Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fighting tool to the public

Re:Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fight... by 52-6F-62 on Thursday October 19, 2017 @11:50AM (#15508921)

CSE is comparable to America's NSA in general function and scope. While CSIS does intelligence work with computers and hires a lot of programmers and analysts, CSE is traditionally the more technologically-focused of the two. You also hear significantly less about it than even CSIS.

They're good at their jobs.

edit: Spelling. They changed it from CSEC to CSE

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Re:Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fight... by canistr on Thursday October 19, 2017 @12:19PM (#15509234)

More like they changed it "back" to CSE. :)

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Re:Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fight... by uiri on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:24PM (#15513146)

CSE recruits fairly heavily at student-focused CS events in Montreal. Never seen or heard a peep about CSIS.

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Re:Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fight... by singingboyo on Friday October 20, 2017 @05:01PM (#15519078)

Interesting - I remember seeing CSIS at CS student events in Vancouver, but I don't think I saw CSE.

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Re:Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fight... by revelation on Thursday October 19, 2017 @01:31PM (#15509810)

Citation needed.

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Re:Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fight... by 52-6F-62 on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:08PM (#15510156)

https://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/en/about-apropos/faq

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Re:Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fight... by richardwhiuk on Thursday October 19, 2017 @03:18PM (#15510782)

Suspect the Citation needed was referring to "They're good at their jobs."

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Re:Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fight... by dmix on Thursday October 19, 2017 @03:34PM (#15510906)

Well we do know they successfully hacked the Brazilian government in the interests of private oil companies? That's something isn't it?

> CSEC had been meeting with the heads of our country’s largest energy companies and debriefing them on all the secrets they’ve stolen from Brazil’s mining and energy ministries.

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/5gqkwq/the-canadian-gover...

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Re:Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fight... by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Friday October 20, 2017 @12:09PM (#15516908)

Have you ever done well on a group project without doing much work yourself?

I just doubt the hacking group is the same group that chose riak, solr, etc.

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Re:Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fight... by dmix on Saturday October 21, 2017 @12:40AM (#15520689)

I'm sorry but I don't understand your question here. Unless you didn't catch the sarcasm of my original comment?

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