09/30/2008
Does OCAD, the Belgian anti terrorist nerve center, have secured ecommunication ?
In the report of the parliamentary oversight commission, this phrase calls this into question
"Het Comité I dringt aan op de noodzaak om snel een performant en beveiligd communicatienetwerk op te richten tussen het OCAD, zijn leveranciers en zijn cliënten, wegens de aard van de inhoud van de uitgewisselde inlichtingen. Naast het evidente veiligheidsrisico, zou het een zware klap zijn voor het imago van België en zijn diensten indien inlichtingen verloren gaan of in de verkeerde handen terechtkomen."
The commission asks that such a secured network should be in place very soon. If it was already in place this phrase wouldn't be present in the report. The fact that it is mentioned in this public report shows that this should be a high priority. It shouldn't be that difficult either because there is enough stuff on the market to make this happen quite quickly. So where is the problem ?
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There can be a lot of reasons:
1) Bureaucracies are usually slow to move
2) Budgets are not always flexible and easily allocated
3) They are under the authority of two different ministries, so there might be some paralysis due to unclear decision making processes. They probably need to get the green light by both before doing anything.
BTW, this is no excuse for them not to have done it before starting to work.
Posted by: elhoim | 09/30/2008
Respond to this commentit's their psy-ops by convincing people they don't have a secured communication channel, they try to attract some unprofessional and stupid criminals to their systems, so the FCCU can arrest them. In the background they of course have the nec plus ultra system, foolproof, years of testing, never compromised. Although it might be a paper dropbox in the park, unfortunately :-)
Posted by: komdotjahoe | 09/30/2008
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