Argentina, Brazil agree on cyber-defense alliance against US espionage

Let's see what happens, but, as a brazilian, I think the encounter will result in absolutely nothing.

The current state of brazilian government's cyber security is a joke. Brazilian army actually made a phone with cryptography, which the president and her ministers just refused to use.

The response the telecom ministry gave to the wiretapping scandal of the e-mails was to ask for the brazilian mail to make a secure e-mail system, stating: "if they have been safely delivering mail for 350 years, they surely are to be trusted making a e-mail system".

As a sidenote, there is very few data security in the brazilian governemt, with a call to a friend who is a junior analyst in a bureau of statistics I can get a list of ALL brazilians sorted by the local equivalent of the Social Security Number. No access logs whatsoever.

I hear some departments actually implemented decent security, but the current state of affairs is a total mess.

Counter-balancing [1] sucks, doesn't it? It's a totally predictable consequence of plays for hegemony.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balancing_%28international_rela...

Great news, gotta see what is going to happen after this announcement.

The issue is: the top security experts work for non Argentinian companies and the government salaries can't compete with them.