British Army cyber 'n' psyops unit 77 Brigade can't even brainwash civvies into helping it meet recruitment targets The British Army's psyops unit 77 Brigade is still falling short of recruiting targets, despite cyber skills being bigged up repeatedly by the military and government. The unit – whose remit covers information operations, psyops and similar shady things – has continued its struggle to attract part-time recruits, according to …
Sociopaths, peeping Tom's, snitches and backstabbers, don't miss an opportunity to make some money by spying on and undermining the legal political efforts of your fellow citizens.
'But what about the children?', you might say. Don't worry that's just a slogan to cover up what we allow you to actually do.
And get sent to a war zone having never fired a gun for real
If you get lucky and a ricochet or similar grazes someones arm find yourself in court 20 years later
Notice it is ok for the supposed bad guy to be shooting and bombing you but a trip to court if you fight back
See the incompetance of those above you and realise why we came so close to losing so many wars and wonder what luck it took to win
Top this up by the continual cutting of the armed forces by the government who wants to spend all our money on German cars, Spanish tanks, American planes, Italian servicing for the planes, Turkish scrap yards for our ships, Chinese steel.....
Then wonder whether it was worth it.
We haven't been at war with Northern Ireland in your lifetime and although the rules of engagement to allow returning fire the issue is that there's rather little evidence that some of the people shot weren't unarmed civilians.
I think it's important that an army is held to account when it shoots the citizens of its own country, even the ones that hate it.
I also served in NI. the military should not be used for policing. I suggest you read David Benest’ article - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/22/northern-ireland-no-amnesty-veterans-amritsar-bloody-sunday.
You are badly deluded if you think that the downside to shooting civilians is ‘inneficient’ as your motivation for not doing it.
Oh and he is ex CO Parachute Regiment
I served in NI in the early 90s. Bombings & shootings were routine, having missed some by minutes. IRA snipers, with help from Americans, were sniping British troops in Armagh with .50 sniper rifles at short range. The IRA and other groups were incredibly active then. Kidnapping, torture, extortion, drugs, you name it, if it made money they were into it.
I think it's important that an army is held to account
And yet it is widely and repeatedly reported that the person that may have fired the first shot on Bloody Sunday went on to have a long and lucrative career in politics. Where was your outrage then?
We've pardoned, commuted, paroled, and otherwise released almost every convicted terrorist in Northern Ireland's history, and now.... now you want to come for some septuagenarians whose only crime was to serve their country? Really? FFS.
Its simply not good enough to come after our armed forces decades after the event, and purely as a function of politics. Those lobbying for this need to be told to fuck off pronto.
Given I spent most of my childhood checking the car for bombs before getting in, had a school damaged by an IRA bomb and had friends shot by them, I'm not sure you're entirely aware of my outrage levels.
I do however recognise that things are complex and nuanced, and the person to whom I replied offered only one perspective on things.
... might be affected by this:
https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/formations-divisions-brigades/force-troops-command/77-brigade/apply-to-join-us/
'Thank you for your interest in 77th Brigade. Unfortunately the Brigade is not in a position to assess new civilian candidates until September 2019 – however we are accepting CVs from interested candidates which we will process in due course. This is due to a number of factors including a reorganisation within the Brigade, an assessment of the skill sets required and the processing of existing candidates.'
Mr Humbug,
Methinks all too easily many experts and ex-pats in the virtual arts exercise here on El Reg. And they can be a loquacious source of all manner of weird and wonderful information and intelligence.
Recruited to Server to What Ultimate End?........ would be a Tricky Dicky Question to Answer for Candidates into AIMaster Pilots for XSSXXXX Streams.
Where only the Truth is Clearly Delivered. Some would tell you IT is a Heavenly Space Place.:-)
The attempts at planting comments on some media to support government policy have usually been properly transparent amateur stuff; ultra low grade AstroTurfing that influences no one.
Which is sort of what you'd expect from somewhere that offers poor incentives and lots of hassle. You're lucky if you can even recruit from the B team.
Huawei dont have bugs, they're unspecified features, and that'll be a feature request to add the ability to configure that as they weren't baked into the element manager. Or they can run a script that needs root privilege on the critical national infrastructure as a workaround that'll only cost 20k to develop, and you can have the full functionality in 3 releases later properly.
What's that? all the scripts got left lying round after the upgrade and expose a hard coded root password? oh, cleanup wasn't specified, but we can make another script to clean up after that one, for a fee...
Huawei most certain;y DO have bugs - see the Huawei cyber security evaluation centre oversight board: annual report 2019 (p.22 on). Indeed, considering the reported defects, it would likely be a miracle if their kit could reliably be used for snooping on anything.
I reckon would get good skills and a pic in a smart uniform would do the geeks no harm on tinder and impressing their DnD mates.
Doubt if the work would necessitate much overseas trips.
Maybe recruitment would be helped getting a designer for a slightly sci-fi type uniform and a decent regimental nickname. The Turings ....maybe not the Lovelaces
A cadet section and a university OTC might be useful too
>Doubt if the work would necessitate much overseas trips.
Remember this is still the army, not a separate service.
If things kick off again in N. Ireland or we decide to 'lliberate' Iran - you are just another warm body if they are short of numbers.
> I reckon would get good skills and a pic in a smart uniform would do the geeks no harm on tinder and impressing their DnD mates.
Apparently they're desperate enough for cybers they don't care about the whole uniform thing now. Or the fitness thing. Or the short well-kempt hair thing. Regular squaddies not impressed so I doubt Tinder would be either.
"I thought you said you were a soldier darling, computers ain't soldiering. Where's your beret. Hey.. do you even lift?"
I could apply for this job but I know I'd be turned down. Even if I fervently believed in its mission (whatever it is) I'm probably not 'reliable' enough to work for these people. (I'd guess that their recruiting pool would extend to people with family connections that went to the right public schools....which would make the pool of technically competent people vanishingly small.)
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