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Peter Joseph Williams faces a lengthy US jail sentence after pleading guilty to selling out his American employer for millions in crypto currency. Williams, reportedly, used to work for the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) during the 2010s. This high level cybersecurity for intelligence executive has betrayed the US and its allies. Australian cybersecurity insider convicted of selling secrets to Russians is facing, at least, 10 years in prison.
“Peter Williams, an Australian cybersecurity executive living in the US, has pleaded guilty to selling trade secrets to a Russian broker. His plea drew a savage response from the US government amid claims he betrayed the country and its allies.”
Aussie Cyber White Hat Turns Black Hat For Crypto Millions
This is an instance of those entrusted with guarding the intelligence secrets of the Five Eyes intelligence network selling out secrets for profit and self-aggrandizement. The sheep dog guarding the hen house turning rogue wolf, in old parlance. Peter Williams had led an internal investigation into his own crimes for his employer last year, which reveals the dirty dealing nature of the man and the industry. It is akin to the locksmith providing keys to the criminals, which was not all that uncommon back in the day.
Former Australian Intelligence Expert Sells Out To Russians
“Court documents filed earlier this month revealed authorities had seized Williams’s house in Washington DC as part of the case, as well as funds in multiple bank accounts, a collection of 22 watches, including five fake Rolexes, and high-end jewellery, clothing and accessories.
Williams did not speak much during his court appearance, but told the judge he had been receiving treatment for depression and anxiety.”
- (By Riley Stuart in Washington DC)
Williams will be deported back to Australia, once he has completed his prison sentence in the US.
Rats In The Ranks
Australian cybersecurity insider convicted of selling secrets to Russians. This is the trouble with the digital castle erected from a deck of cards. We are all so reliant on those who know the secrets and the weak spots in our cybersecurity frameworks. The paranoid world, in which these black hats and white hats operate in, is forever vulnerable to perennials like bribery and blackmail. The porous nature of the digital world means that filling all those holes is just not possible. Tim Berners-Lee did not have the millions of hackers and scammers in mind, I don’t think, when he invented the world wide web.
“He received the 2016 Turing Award “for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale” “
The cost of convenience is the diminishment of security, when we are talking about the digital nature of the modern world.
Fallacies About Alliances With America
“Baby Boomers have grown up under the misapprehension that the United States of America was there for us. A generation of Australians have grown up weak on this basis. When exactly has the US come to our aid since WW2? The answer is never. On the other hand, how many times has Australia answered the call from America? Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pine Gap of course. Australians have learned to see our subsidiary role to the US as payment in advance for any serious threat upon our shores. ANZUS was invoked after 9/11 and for the invasion of Afghanistan.”
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of What Price Life?; SpeakTruth; The Stoic Golfer; Money Matters and America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump.
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What Price Life? by Robert Sudha Hamilton Epub version
What Price Life? Why is everything so expensive? Is the new book by Robert Sudha Hamilton. Putting on his economist hat to do justice to explaining the prevailing headwinds we all face in the current climate. It appears that living is becoming prohibitively expensive and this is not happening by accident. There are sections of our population who are hell bent on stealing your lunch or at least making it too bloody pricey. We are supposed to be living in a democracy but it is actually a 2 speed economy. Many of us are getting left behind, when it comes to the wealth stakes. What can we do about it?
350 pages
