(C) Alec Muffett's DropSafe blog.
Author Name: Alec Muffett
This story was originally published on allecmuffett.com. [1]
License: CC-BY-SA 3.0.[2]
“UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit #infosec pros”
2022-01-26 08:41:27+00:00
#HEADSUP — I blogged the screencapped post in 2013, and turns out that I was right:
"UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit #infosec pros"
…it's a great and obvious way for Gov't both to whip-in dissent from the UK infosec community:
The UK government wants to decide who is allowed to be an ethical hacker or not and tie it to legal defense exemptions under the upcoming amended Computer Misuse Act. A government that has shown itself to be nothing but corrupt and unethical…
https://t.co/eIj2x3IYxX — Hacker Fantastic (@hackerfantastic) January 25, 2022
Props to @GazTheJourno for the article:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/25/ukgov_cybersecurity_profession_regulation_ukcsc/
My original concern was that the @bcs or similar would try to set themselves up as a "pay-as-you-pentest" certification authority, without which you'd risk prosecution or somesuch… and that may still happen
Creating a more focused "UK Cyber Security Council" which holds the keys to "a profession in cyber security" is a much better route to making money… except as ever I believe we don't need that, nor indeed more "cyber" experts.
We need more and better *devs* people.
Also: it's a great way to try and regulate development of "security" technologies to that they always have a back door:
Originally tweeted by Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) on 2022/01/26.
[END]
[1] URL:
https://alecmuffett.com/article/15976
[2] URL:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
DropSafe Blog via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/alecmuffett/
