Dutch MoD appoints 72 citizens to cyber-military reserve force
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And isn't this a really small appointment? Is the story actually that the MoD has created a cyber reserve force? It's a very small one if it's just a company's worth of people.
I would be a resident, but not a citizen, correct?
EU Law doesn't prevent EU members from discriminating against EU Nationals unless it explicitly discriminates against them, for example you can't disallow specific employment under the freedom of movement if it's allowed under a non-EU work visa (there are few exemptions when it comes nationals of "EU" territories which have various ties to specific EU member states and may or maynot be EU nationals on their own right), if you look at national level government employment as a whole across the EU they either limit employment of EU nationals (sometimes with caveats such as unless they lived in the host nation for a certain period of time) or set quotas on how many EU nationals you can employ in any given agency or institution.
This is because many government institutions and agencies while not being elected officials do affect and even set policy all the time. The EU "officially" isn't set to supercede national sovereignty of its member states so it's not really surprising why France might not want the majority of its foreign service employees to be German or why Germany might not want a bunch of Polish prosecutors and judges mucking with its legal system.
Also don't forget that being an EU national while grants you the right to vote in another member state, you are only allowed to vote for the EU elections in that state. Whether member states allow EU nationals to vote in local, or general elections is up to the individual member state, most of them disallow it, the same thing goes for running for office in some places you can run for local elections but even in those nations many of the party bylaws disallow foreign membership so you have to run as an independant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_militaries_that_recrui...
I suspect op refers to a requirement to be a citizen to join the military, but can't be sure.
Idea is that that will make it easier to find such reservists. That seems to be the case.
I know what the word 'citizen' means. I was saying I think it's the wrong word because it's redundant. Of course they're hiring citizens - almost no military recruits anything else (except for commonwealth issues).
[1] https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/eligibility-requi...
[2] https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/06/12/...
So, it’s reasonably common among western countries.
It’s common across big countries. Lot of that list contains things like from specific area only.
Rare amongst smaller countries. For me it sounds odd to serve in a military without citizenship. Finland even allows some men to skip the conscription if they do not live in Finland and have dual citizenship.
There are quite a few exceptions to "militaries don't recruit non-citizens": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_militaries_that_recrui...
Most relevant to the case at hand, a number of EU countries allow EU citizens to serve in their militaries: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland and Luxembourg
[1] http://content1b.omroep.nl/urishieldv2/l27m117bb9ab7f68485c0...
Would you like to know more?
Men with pencils are more dangerous than men without therefore pencils are dangerous.
Note that according to the definition of a weapon ("a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage") a pencil can be classed as a weapon due to its use. Which is a perfect illustration of why men with pencils (used as weapons) are more dangerous than men without.
So thank you for making my point.
"There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men."
Here's the full translated text from the docx:
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During the General Personnel Consultation on 11 September this year, I undertook to inform your House of Representatives about the cyber reservists pilot in which the selection process deviates from the physical requirements that apply regularly for appointment as a soldier. I will discuss the principles that apply, the appointment process and the first results.
Starting points for different requirements
The Ministry of Defense is increasingly in need of cyber professionals: civilian employees, professional soldiers and reservists. Under the humanitarian law of war (HOR) only soldiers are allowed to participate in the fight. In or from the Netherlands only soldiers and the police have powers of violence. The use of civilian employees for performing acts of violence is not permitted; professional soldiers or reservists are required for this. A number of cyber activities also fall under the practice of acts of violence.
To be able to recruit more cyber reserves, the cyber reserves pilot was launched on 6 November 2018. The Defense organization organizes so-called Matching Days (M-Days) several times a year with the aim of identifying suitable cyber reservists. In addition, candidates are approached who must be (partially) exempted from certain physical and medical requirements as included in the CDS instruction "Preparation of individual soldiers". These are the candidates who are ultimately classified in the category "not broadcastable, but employable."
Appointment process
The Ministry of Defense organizes the above-mentioned M-days about nine times a year. Candidates for these days are largely recruited via the cyber professionals' own network. The Defense organization is also actively seeking contact with the business community for potential candidates. When a candidate shows an interest, a short matching procedure is started based on his or her Curriculum Vitae (CV). As soon as there is interest in the candidate from the Ministry of Defense, he is asked to fill in an (online) personality questionnaire and to take a cyber substantive test prior to the M-day. The candidate is then invited for an M-day.
During this day, applicants are selected for a position as a cyber reservist based on various tests, (group) assignments and interviews. A maximum of fifteen candidates are present per M-day, of which ten were able to continue the appointment process last year. Applicants who, after an M-day, do not appear to have the required competencies and therefore do not qualify for a position as a cyber reservist, can, if they wish, follow the regular appointment, selection and testing process for other (reserve) positions.
Applicants for whom it has been established on M-day that they have sufficient potential for a cyber reserve position, are offered the choice between the regular appointment process or the deviating process. If they opt for the latter, they will be appointed as a non-transferable reservist without a further medical or sporting examination, after issuing a Declaration of No Objection (VGB). Applicants who opt for the regular procedure go through the inspection process at the Personnel Logistics Service Center (DCPL) in two days. In the event of a positive result of these tests, these applicants are appointed, after issuing a VGB, as a reservist without restrictions on deployment. Applicants who drop out during this follow-up process can still be appointed as a non-broadcast cyber reservist.
First results
The pilot has been running for almost a year and the first results are positive. At the start of the pilot, the Ministry of Defense had thirty cyber reserves. In the meantime, 72 have actually been appointed (of which nine with the special form of appointment can be deployed but cannot be deployed). In addition, there are 48 aspiring cyber reservists (nine of whom have completed the adjusted procedure) that have already been selected and are still awaiting appointment. Due to their specific knowledge and experience, the eighteen non-broadcastable (aspiring) cyber reserves are important for the cyber capacity of the Ministry of Defense. At the moment 22 candidates have applied for the next M-days. This pilot runs until the end of 2020. At that time, a final evaluation will be drawn up with conclusions and recommendations for a follow-up process. I will inform your Chamber about this.
It does sound similar to the UK's version, and I'm sure most countries have some sort of cyber division by now. Plus there's suppliers and consultants, like traditional forensics and computer forensics/ data retrieval e.g.
You're assuming that the wording of 'people' should be obvious, and other people will find it non-obvious. They just picked one.
Welcome to the very slippery slope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
I would not at all be surprised to see equivalents in other jurisdictions.
The idea here is not that the tip is evidence, but that the tip leads to an investigation focused on an individual that was otherwise not a suspect. Given how hacking computers often leaves no suspects having any suspect is already a step up from having none. Motive, means and opportunity right? Means -> you are able to hack, we found your application to this ultra elite hacking thingy the good government put out, you aced it, therefore you have the means. You're a competent hacker, you were near a computer the night this stuff went down that gives opportunity. Which leaves motive, and it won't take much to tag some hacker type with any motive you care about maladjusted miscreants that they are.
So motif [Eng] is based on motive [Fr] for repetitive (something). And motive [Eng] is similar in meaning to motief [NL], motive [Fr] and motiv [De]. All based on the same root in Latin.
The friendly image from the 90s no longer applies.
We don't have fascist 'burgerwacht' controlled by the government, if anything they are the opposite, operating outside of government oversight and control and considerable manpower and expense goes into keeping track of these groups.
The reason I'm concerned with the linked article is because it might cause 'off the books' characters to reveal themselves and if they have been near the periphery of something illegal even if they themselves were not part of it or if their skills are judged unique enough that those skills themselves start counting as a fingerprint of sorts that it might get people in trouble who do not deserve that.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9serve_op%C3%A9rationnel...