[DrCaleb]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Curtman Curtman:

Canada says budget data safe from hackers

$1:

Hackers who broke into the computer system at Canada's finance ministry did not obtain any confidential information on the upcoming federal budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday.

Flaherty said he was not taking any additional security measures in the wake of the incident.

Phew! At least they didn't get the budget data!

But I bet they know what the G20 delegates had for supper now though

Damn, so they got into the classified secret stuff.

[BartSimpson]

bootlegga bootlegga:

I bet you're also surprised that the US has spied on us too

Yeah, and we got some great stuff, too! We found out that your CF-18 fighter is disturbingly similar to our F-18. We are, however, stymied by your strategies for using them.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

bootlegga bootlegga:

I bet you're also surprised that the US has spied on us too

Yeah, and we got some great stuff, too! We found out that your CF-18 fighter is disturbingly similar to our F-18. We are, however, stymied by your strategies for using them.

That's our Newfie kamikaze squadron

[Gunnair]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

bootlegga bootlegga:

I bet you're also surprised that the US has spied on us too

Yeah, and we got some great stuff, too! We found out that your CF-18 fighter is disturbingly similar to our F-18. We are, however, stymied by your strategies for using them.

Took a page out of the USN playbook.

[BartSimpson]

Gunnair Gunnair:

Took a page out of the USN playbook.

You mean you people are spying on us?

[DerbyX]

What do you think we sent Justin Bieber down there for?

[bootlegga]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

bootlegga bootlegga:

I bet you're also surprised that the US has spied on us too

Yeah, and we got some great stuff, too! We found out that your CF-18 fighter is disturbingly similar to our F-18. We are, however, stymied by your strategies for using them.

American espionage against it allies is usually geared towards industrial/economic areas, not military.

I've read that a CSE (Canada's equivalent to the NSA) training op in the 80s in Ottawa once intercepted a cellualr call between the US ambassador and some US trade reps, which when turned over to our trade reps, helped us land a $1 billion grain sale to China (at the expense of the USA). The same book also detailed ELINT apparatus on the US Embassy in Ottawa that could have been used (and likely was) to intercept similar communciations by people in Ottawa.

I've no doubt the US government collects ELINT from Canada on a routine basis - either from Echelon or from the NSA. Whether or not it acts on such intel, I don't know. If CSE is as good as they say they are, then it shouldn't matter as the super critical stuff should be very well encrypted.

Besides, the easiest way to defeat our CF-18s is to lock the hangar doors!

[BartSimpson]

DerbyX DerbyX:

What do you think we sent Justin Bieber down there for?

To spread Canadian views on abortion?

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/ ... hosts.html

[EyeBrock]

I'm sure all those Chinese dudes in Markham and Mississauga who live in mainly Chinese sub-divisions and only ever shop at Chinese stores, use Chinese real-estate agents, Chinese lawyers and Chinese doctors are proud Canadians.

[BartSimpson]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

I'm sure all those Chinese dudes in Markham and Mississauga who live in mainly Chinese sub-divisions and only ever shop at Chinese stores, use Chinese real-estate agents, Chinese lawyers and Chinese doctors are proud Canadians.

Of course. Only a bigot would say otheriwse.

[EyeBrock]

Or a xenophobe.