🇨🇦 German cyber chief visits Ottawa while Canada's digital defences remain a joke

Vice-Admiral Thomas Daum flew in to lecture Canadian officials on cyber warfare while our own military can barely keep its email servers running. Germany faces relentless Russian cyberattacks on defence contractors like Rheinmetall — hit with a $10.8 million ransomware breach after announcing a Ukraine tank factory. Meanwhile Canada's rearmament program, such as it is, limps along with no industrial base to protect and procurement timelines measured in decades. Daum warns that supply chains are under constant assault, yet Ottawa still pretends cybersecurity is about updating your password twice a year.

The real vulnerability isn't human error — it's a government that spent years hollowing out our military, outsourcing critical infrastructure, and treating national defence like an optional budget line. Germany at least has something worth hacking. We're hosting foreign cyber commanders to discuss protecting a rearmament that exists mostly in press releases.

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