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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Tory Shepherd

‘May the best spy win’: Australia’s intelligence chiefs open up on cyber threats – and feminism

Rachel Noble, the director general of the Australian Signals Directorate
‘Of course we spy on other countries’: Rachel Noble, the director general of the Australian Signals Directorate intelligence agency. Photograph: Reuters

Two of the country’s top spy bosses have offered a rare insight into the escalating threat from cyber-attacks, and Australia’s defensive and offensive responses.

“All’s fair in love and war and espionage,” said Rachel Noble, the director general of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), when asked if it was hypocritical for the west to call out cyber-attacks from other countries, when it is carrying out its own.

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