#HEADSUP — I blogged the screencapped post in 2013, and turns out that I was right:

"UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit #infosec pros"

…it's a great and obvious way for Gov't both to whip-in dissent from the UK infosec community:

The UK government wants to decide who is allowed to be an ethical hacker or not and tie it to legal defense exemptions under the upcoming amended Computer Misuse Act. A government that has shown itself to be nothing but corrupt and unethical… https://t.co/eIj2x3IYxX

— hackerfantastic.x (@hackerfantastic) January 25, 2022

Props to @GazTheJourno for the article:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/25/ukgov_cybersecurity_profession_regulation_ukcsc/

My original concern was that the @bcs or similar would try to set themselves up as a "pay-as-you-pentest" certification authority, without which you'd risk prosecution or somesuch… and that may still happen

Hairdressers Registration (Amendment) #regulation #security #cybersecurity @openrightsgroup /ht @julianhuppert

Creating a more focused "UK Cyber Security Council" which holds the keys to "a profession in cyber security" is a much better route to making money… except as ever I believe we don't need that, nor indeed more "cyber" experts.

We need more and better *devs* people.

Also: it's a great way to try and regulate development of "security" technologies to that they always have a back door:

Muffett versus MI5

Originally tweeted by Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) on 2022/01/26.