The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will spend $22.5 million over the next five years to set up their own hacking division in Ottawa to tackle online threats to Canada’s “political, economic, and social integrity”. Besides fighting online threats in the forms of fraudsters, online scammers, and identity thieves, the cyber-crime fighting unit will also target Anonymous that in July hacked Canadian government servers and stole some semi-important documents as well as crashed the RCMP’s website as a part of a battle to retaliate police-involved shooting in Dawson Creek.
When asked about the RCMP’s failure to produce arrests thus far on the high-profile instances of hacking and DDoS attacks — specifically when it comes to Anonymous — Jeff Adam, Chief Superintendent with Royal Canadian Mounted Police, suggested that those cases were far from cold. 
“Insofar as the apparent, as you say, lack of outcomes. Cybercrime investigations, starting off, can involve encryption, the dark net, multinational jurisdictions — and, many times, many different national jurisdictions — and it is a complex and time-consuming task to both identify, gather the evidence on, and to bring those people into the realm of justice. And while there might not be, apparently, anything happening, this is not as simple as catching the car speeding down the street. This is infinitely more complex and requires a whole new way of doing business,” Adam said on a conference call unveiling the plan.
The hacking division “will have the capacity to target cyber-related criminal activity targeting the federal government, national critical infrastructure, and key business assets”. The plan mandates the federal force to acquire new gear to house and analyze data, set up better relationships with international policing agencies to catch cybercriminals worldwide, and improve its recruiting efforts to get more technology-minded recruits on the force.
The new tools to fight online crime include warrantless access to users’ data, and the ability to circumvent encryption technologies that shield users’ messages from spying.
“Some of the barriers [are] access to information, both due to encryption, location and jurisdiction, and our identification of the persons who may or may not be involved in that criminal activity. Any and all of those accesses will determine our success in cyber crime fighting. We are committed to exploring […] how Canadians expect the police to enforce the laws on the Internet, and one of those may or may not be warrantless access. It would certainly assist in some areas, but we will take the advice and follow the guidance of the government,” Adam explained.
The move could set up a political showdown between the Mounties and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as well as invalidate a 2014 Supreme Court decision that ruled police need a warrant to access subscriber information.
However, the cops claim the growing complexity of Internet-based crime launched from anywhere in the world is forcing them to rethink how they pursue cyber suspects.
“Can’t see it. Can’t touch it. It’s not close by. It’s not your neighbour. It’s not even the next city over. Could be the next continent over. And that’s a fundamental change in how we are going to have to approach this… Now there’s the ability to press a finger on a button and send one million email messages that are scams. The ability for this technology to multiply its effects across a wide number of targets has changed the whole dynamic,” Adam told CBC News.
The new cyber crime team, which will consist of both police officers and civilians, is the first item in the 15-point plan that also outlines the creation of a new “dedicated intelligence unit” as well as strategies for cooperating with other international bodies, including Interpol, Europol, and the Five Eyes, an intelligence alliance comprised of Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US, and Canada.
From 2011 to 2013, Canada has seen a 40% rise in cyber-crime incidents, growing from over 1,300 incidents reported in 2011, to more than 4,400 cases in 2013. Most of these incidents involved technology-as-instrument offences, but there were also many incidents involving technology-as-target. In recent years, Canada has seen some serious cyber-attacks, like the Ashley Madison data breach that dumped online the personal details of over 30 million users, and the attack on one of Ottawa’s top scientific research agencies in 2014.
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lot of shite
But why? That’s just stupid! The only people that has to fear Anonumous, are criminals.. Better to sponsor Anonymous..
thats why the guverment dont like them.
you think they are criminal ur wrong if u think that go fucking rob a bank if u think they criminals and that but just mug that crobted by the government and that anonymoes are legends and will but everyone to shame and will take control all over the internet u all been told so u think it aint going to happen it will when it does u look lyk a big twat u retard
Because the elite is not liking that people can say if it is correct or not… Where the new world order touches in all over the world, it is being tested currently on people introductions of laws in many countries to see how people resist… So i guess they are studying people resistance to apply their plans of control over the world… Animals arrived first on the planet and how do they know that aliens are not behind everything and made a trap for greedy people?? How can they join Anonymous to Cyber Crime… is it because they use the same division to deal with it?? why they don’t create a division against Anonymous??? and why didn’t they say they are against Anonymous like groups?? Or they have enough data or they created Anonymous… those people are trying to trap everyone through all ways possible… And of course who controls through those ways the police?? programmed robots?? why all the police where the new world order follows the same order of apply their rules?? programmed only… they are doing the same thing, living the same lives, dreaming with the same things… that’s what they are doing to the police and military… so, or join the good ones because they can save you or join the evil order, because you don’t care everyday and become controlled from your instincts through your nervous system to your dreams… you see someone has a wrapper to all technology in all over the world and wants it all in their assess… And they do that against everyone… they even need to check their own energy for noise and exploits… do you think they live in the same reality and consciousness than the rest of us?? no… they live the dream of the illuminati, not the rich and not the bankers and not bilderberg… because how do you think everyone don’t get out complete out of sight like guardians of the galaxy for a lot of years… because the secrets of the creations of the languages and beliefs are in the same play and the technologies are linked to civilizations who created religions and languages… so who holds those secrets of the birth and evolution of humanity’s mind and self forging… people need to get out really of sight and perspective and consciousness… it is all in the deviation of the secrets from how the only intelligent being on earth sees energy and forces and form in earth… and they use that against everyone else… even rich people… why do you think they are reach??? they follow their orders because when they go out they leave to be rich… it is a trap and a scam… so they have more protection and support over vampirized people… they are rich because they can’t be anything else and they only do what is predestinated and enclosed in the same web and wrapper of consciousness… so it’s like psychological advantage and technological advantage finishes their plan… if that happens just a few will survive… 1% of the 1%… that’s why they are holding everything before screw with everything… they need people alive, so they still have their resources coming to the top and researches through patents and espionage… while finishing their projects… when they finish their projects they will erase us from the earth… i think their last project is meeting spirituality to materialism with control… like that their energetic system and trap will finish and they will try to become gods… because the dreams of them tend to be what the people can’t be… to become gods… so why the 3rd eye is associated to the sun?? because someone knows it’s secrets?? and why the Vatican has patents in consciousness about energy points on humans??? i have heard about chakras of earth… and everything comes and goes through the source of the most secret thing on the planet that is the energy everyone believes and no one sees if they don’t find absolute stillness and peace of mind… conspiracy of a few thousand years… on the web for free… search more about technological advancement hidden leaps… and then join realms and perspectives and the unknown
I don’t think the Mounties stand a chance.
Leave Anonimous in peace and go fight real criminals. What a waste of time and money…..
LOL,why? Wouldn’t it be a little more wise to work with them? Why does some elitist ALWAYS have to declare war on someone instead of dealing with the issue together? IE Obama and Putin. Make the world a stronger place for the civilians and a worse place for the terrorist BY WORKING ON THE SAME SIDE YOU IDIOTS.
Waste of 22 million dollars.
And we all voted for Trudeau thinking he would stop the government from putting up additional uncessary “security” measures.
i’d agree with the fact that this is a waste of time but what do people expect when you DDoS a national police agency?
Inherently corrupt and evil governments can’t hide behind money and lies for too long. Everything comes to light in time.
anonymoes will rule and take back free world free speech free everything the government got no chance no more more hackers out ther than u govermont and some don’t relize some of ur government been anonymoes for ages so think twice if u don’t think its happening