Indonesia to build crack IT-trained military unit to deflect attacks

The world’s fourth most populous country, Indonesia, is fed up with getting hacked and wants to build a special military defence force to protect the state against online attacks. A senior defence ministry official revealed that the government is proposing a new law which would allow such a force to defend against and disrupt …

[Gray Ham]

Is this new?

Is this the same unit as the TNI Cyber Defence Task Force announced in November last year? or a new initiative?

Or possibly, tangan kiri .... meet tangan kanan.

[Anonymous Coward]

Indonesia fed up with getting hacked ..

"The world’s fourth most populous country, Indonesia, is fed up with getting hacked and wants to build a special military defence force to protect the state against online attacks"

Well then, stop using Windows on your critical infrastructure ...

[K]

Cause Indonesia is..

A hot bed of Hi-Tech and Millitary juicy secrets!

[WatAWorld]

Re: Cause Indonesia is..

Naval movements of western allies in their pirate infested, Chinese infested waters.

[WatAWorld]

If the USA, UK and Australia can't prevent their security services being hacked I doubt Indonesia has a chance.

Suppressing hacking to a significant extent would require changes to the protocols of the Internet. Software and hardware changes.

It isn't going to happen, not just due to laziness, but also since our own governments like the ability to spy on us discretely.

Adding security to the Internet would make the spying on us and on other governments more difficult and more noticeable. It is a price they are not prepared to pay.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hacking and Internet protocols ..

"Suppressing hacking to a significant extent would require changes to the protocols of the Internet. Software and hardware changes."

Nonsense, there's nothing wrong with Internet protocols that needs fixing. The problem totally resides with certain server and client software.