Take Cybersecurity Away From Spies – For Everyone’s Sake

Author argues that the United Kingdom's online intelligence services need freedom from the state.

The WannaCry attack should provide an opportunity to separate two key roles: clandestine signals intelligence and the cyber security of the UK's critical national infrastructure.

The best way to start: make the National Cyber Security Centre independent from GCHQ.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: United Kingdom of Surveillance http://www.europeansources.info/record/united-kingdom-of-surveillance/

ESO: Background information: Cyber security woes: WannaCry? (European Union Institute for Security Studies: Issue Alert, May 2017) http://www.europeansources.info/record/cyber-security-woes-wannacry/

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