The government will allocate $1.670 million over the next decade to protect critical infrastructure and track down criminals in the “internet sewer,” Homeland Minister Peter Dutton announced.
Interior Minister Peter Dutton revealed that there had been an increase in online paedophile activity during the COVID-19 closures. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage Source: News Corp Australia
Australia will employ a hundred cyber detectives committed to protecting young people online as a component of a $1.67 billion build-up in the country’s cybersecurity.
Speaking to reporters Thursday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the new strategy would be critical infrastructure and services, Australian companies operating online and families.
“We will have to protect you and your circle of family members from the dark web, the trolls and those who would seek to take credit for the maximum vulnerable in our community, the elderly and others,” he said.
Interior Minister Peter Dutton said detectives would in particular help fight online paedophiles who had become more active during the coronavirus blockade.
“The fact is that at this time we have noticed a large increase in the number of online paedophiles during the COVID-19 period. They address young people because they know young people are at home,” he says.
Dutton said the dark network “the sewer network” and a hot spot for paedophiles and other criminal syndicates.
“The stories we hear from our researchers are quite overwhelming, and the attacks we now see in all kinds of businesses, but also in families… what deserves to be an environment is not for many families.
Headquarters of the Australian Signals Directorate Source: Supplied
The minister said the new cybersecurity strategy would cause the Australian government to enforce the law online in the same way it did in real life, with new powers that would allow the Australian Federal Police to request the Australian Signals Directorate to track servers used through foreign paedophile networks. .
While there has been a debate about exploiting these new powers, Dutton said only online crime perpetrators are involved.
“If you’re a pedophile, you worry about thoseArray powers.. If you’re committing a felony in relation to drug trafficking, ice, for example, that children are pedaled, you get involved in those powers,” he said.
“If you’re part of the Australian community, 99% of other people who don’t participate in those activities, then I don’t think you have anything to worry about.
“The truth is that other people do their best to prepare young people online and terrorists exchange information … other people exchange weapons on the dark Internet and this cannot be a lawless space.