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The cybersecurity industry’s billion dollar scam
by Matunda Nyanchama 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Worth reading! Gist: cyber product technology remains archaic! Read on. The cybersecurity industry’s billion dollar scam | | | | | | | | | | | The cybersecurity industry’s billion dollar scamThe cybersecurity industry can be romanticized as a crime-fighting cabal of protectors facing off against hackers to keep the Internet safe. In this version of the ... | | | | View on thenextweb.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matunda Nyanchama, PhD, CISSP; mnyanchama(a)aganoconsulting.com Agano Consulting Inc.; www.aganoconsulting.com; Twitter: nmatunda; Skype: okiambe ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Manage your ICT risks! We are the experts you need! The trusted partners you deserve!Call: +1-888-587-1150 (Canada) +254-20-267-0743 (Kenya) or info(a)aganoconsulting.comLicensed by Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"The best revenge is massive success" - Frank Sinatra----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including attachments, may be privileged and may contain confidential or proprietary information intended only for the addressee(s). Any other distribution, copying, use, or disclosure is unauthorized and strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently delete the message, including any attachments, without making a copy. Thank you.

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CLARIFICATION OF THE MEASURES THE AUTHORITY IS PUTTING IN PLACE TO MANAGE CYBERCRIME
by Kingori, Hazel 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Good morning Listers, Attached find a statement issued by the Authority to clarify on cyber crime management. Kind regards, Hazel King’ori

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Data roaming charges to end in EU within two years
by meshack emakunat 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

fyi Data roaming charges to end in EU within two years - BBC News | | | | | | | | | | | Data roaming charges to end in EU within two years - BBC...After its watered down plans were attacked in March, the EU reaches a deal to end mobile data roaming charges and define net neutrality rules. | | | | View on www.bbc.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |

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Rules could split Safaricom’s revenue arms
by cdohnio 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Despite the misleading headline, this law could affect the industry for years to come. No one is denying Safaricom's dominance, the real question is are they abusing it? Despite following this story for months I'm yet to hear just how this abuse has happened ---- *Rules could split Safaricom’s revenue arms* <http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Rules-could-split-Safaricom-revenue-arms/-…> // *Daily Nation RSS Feeds: Home* <http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Rules-could-split-Safaricom-revenue-arms/-…> Safaricom is staring at tough times as Parliament begins discussing regulations that will restrict its movements in the market and punish it for abusing dominance. ---- Shared via *my feedly reader* <http://feedly.com>

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Fwd: [Internet Policy] Chicago’s cloud tax
by Barrack Otieno 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

Listers, Interesting read. Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Joly MacFie" <joly(a)punkcast.com> Date: Jul 2, 2015 10:36 AM Subject: [Internet Policy] Chicago’s cloud tax To: "internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org" <InternetPolicy(a)elists.isoc.org> Cc: This could be an alarming development if it caught on internationally? http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/1/8876817/chicago-cloud-tax-online-streaming… <snip intro> Chicago's new tax is actually composed of two recent rulings made by the city's Department of Finance: one covering "electronically delivered amusements" and another covering "nonpossessory computer leases." Each one takes an existing tax law and extends it to levy an extra 9 percent tax on certain types of online services. The first ruling presumably covers streaming media services like Netflix and Spotify, while the second would cover remote database or computing platforms like Amazon Web Services or Lexis Nexis. Under the new law, what passes as $100 of server time in Springfield would cost $109 if you're conducting it from an office in Chicago. Although the tax is technically levied on consumers, some companies are already preparing to collect it as part of the monthly bill. Netflix says it’s already making arrangements to add the tax to the cost charged to its Chicago customers. "Jurisdictions around the world, including the US, are trying to figure out ways to tax online services," said a Netflix representative, reached by The Verge. "This is one approach." The result for services is both higher prices and a new focus on localization. For the web services portion, the most likely effect is simply moving servers outside of the city limits — and, where possible, the offices that use them. Once implemented, streaming services will also have to keep closer track of which subscribers fall under the new tax, whether through billing addresses or more restrictive methods like IP tracking, which is already used to enforce rights restrictions. Some lawyers have already taken issue with the city's move. After the rulings were announced, Reed Smith partner Michael Wynne argued the taxes violate both the Federal Telecommunications Act and, in the case of the second ruling, 1998's Internet Tax Freedom Act, intended to prevent discrimination against services delivered over the internet. "I could do that same activity of research using books or periodicals without being taxed," Wynne says. "So it does seem like I'm being picked on because I chose to do it online." But while the law may seem onerous, it's also a response to an increasingly difficult reality for cash-strapped cities, particularly as online services start to take a bite out of the businesses in the urban center. Twenty years ago, the same albums and movies were consumed at video rental outlets and music stores — which paid local property taxes, potentially paired with municipal sales taxes and other brick-and-mortar duties. But as online subscription services take over more and more of our music and video budgets, that money ends up disappearing from the traditional municipal tax base. By 2015, the people of Chicago are being entertained by corporations outside of the reach of the city government, leaving it scrambling to make up the difference. Facing a severe budget shortfall, it's easy to see how a city might look toward online services to fill the gap. Still, the net result for cloud services and customers alike is a confusing hodgepodge. If taxes like Chicago's become widespread, it could become a persistent problem for services like the newly launched Apple Music, which hope to tempt listeners away from ad-supported services like Spotify’s free tier. It would also mean further monitoring on where media is being consumed, which would mean the experience of using a VPN to watch a US-only video might be a harbinger of things to come. In the meantime, the law world is struggling to piece through what the old laws will really mean for the cloud. "There's no question that the city needs revenue and I can see where things are escaping the old tax base," says Wynne, "I think the objectionable part is that, instead of drafting new laws for that, we're simply stretching the old laws to fit." -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - _______________________________________________ To manage your ISOC subscriptions or unsubscribe, please log into the ISOC Member Portal: https://portal.isoc.org/ Then choose Interests & Subscriptions from the My Account menu.

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Fwd: [Internet Policy] Watch live on 2 July - WSIS+10 consultations from the UN in New York
by Barrack Otieno 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dan York <york(a)isoc.org> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 17:25:07 +0000 Subject: [Internet Policy] Watch live on 2 July - WSIS+10 consultations from the UN in New York To: Internet Policy External <internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org> Internet-Policy members, Tomorrow (2 July) Constance will be speaking at the U.N. in New York as part of the consultations leading up to the 10-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). She wrote about what she will be saying in her remarks: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/07/isoc-speaking-2-… and that has been shared out to social media at: https://twitter.com/internetsociety/status/616294137101357056 https://twitter.com/ISOCPolicy/status/616294137059356672 https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/posts/10152724560723239 https://plus.google.com/+InternetSociety/posts/3m1Ssou3AJm The session will be streamed live from 10:00am until 6:00pm US Eastern (UTC-4) at: http://webtv.un.org/ More information about WSIS - and the Internet Society's positions related to WSIS - can be found at: https://www.internetsociety.org/wsis Regards, Dan -- Dan York Senior Content Strategist, Internet Society york(a)isoc.org<mailto:[email protected]> +1-802-735-1624 Jabber: york(a)jabber.isoc.org<mailto:[email protected]> Skype: danyork http://twitter.com/danyork http://www.internetsociety.org/<http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/> -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/

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Re: [kictanet] [isoc_ke] Fwd: Tough new rules force all Internet users to list their gadgets
by Grace Githaiga 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Looking at the story, I wondered if the journalist had misunderstood the DG or really KENIC is going to be given the role of policing WIFIs. Is this really feasible and is it KENIC's role? It just does not sound right. A response from CA may set the record straight! Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:31:06 -0700 To: kelvin(a)skysys.co.ke CC: isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke Subject: Re: [isoc_ke] Fwd: [kictanet] Tough new rules force all Internet users to list their gadgets From: isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke Security is a function of personal freedom. This binary concept of privacy or security pushes people to compromise on privacy in the myopic idea that security if paramount. However, unless the people feel safe enough to express themselves, share ideas, organize and basically have that democratic culture, the state understanding of security keeps drifting away from how the citizens understand it. Cyber crime is, as expected, related to growth in internet connection. Not just in Kenya but globally. Let no one sound the alarm as if Kenya is a special case. I think the solution lies most importantly in enabling the user defend herself online. 123456 is not a password, no Nigerian will send you USD250,000 just for sharing your name...and a host of behavioral reverse engineering tricks. That is our first line of defence, while investing seriously in technical capacity locally. How enforceable are these directives anyway? On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Kelvin Githira via isoc <isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke> wrote: Hi All, I will keep this as simple and as short as i can, just the way i know how to. The fight against cyber crime is wide and cannot just be won by casting the net on free wifi users. forms of crime vary from sms, phone calls. emails and on chat applications. To even get close to keeping cyber crime at bay a few things (among others) in my opinion will need to happen in no given order -cast the net wider to include the use of pen registers and as well as trap and trace devices by the law enforcement authority ( while doing so define what is to be surveyed, is it mass surveillance or only where there is suspicion of crime ? -Substantiate between devices used to access and platforms used to access i.e a cell phone with mac address x and an email address used by user y ( while doing so define notification to unsuspecting users as well as define the Gag rule to ISP mandated on this process -define broadly information revealed by "digital dialed" over circuit switched telephony networks as well as information reveled by addressing on packet switched internet networks. - while tapping into this various forms of communication , law enforcement will need the cooperation of third parties such as the ISP's and telephone companies, to what extend i ask ? again we are faced with the dilemma, how far should we allow our government to go in there efforts to protect us against crime and terrorism while protecting freedoms and privacy? or is it a case of giving up liberties for more security? Simply put others will argue that the intent is access the internet and sign up freely for surveillance. regards, kelvin On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Barrack Otieno via isoc <isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke> wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Grace Githaiga via kictanet <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 20:55:10 +0000 Subject: [kictanet] Tough new rules force all Internet users to list their gadgets To: otieno.barrack(a)gmail.com Cc: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga(a)hotmail.com> Kenyans using Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet in public places will be required to register their mobile devices with the Kenya Network Information Centre (Kenic), under new rules aimed at fighting cybercrime.The customers will be required to provide their telephone numbers and identity card details, which can be used to track them down should they use their gadgets to commit cybercrimes such as fraud or hacking websites. Read on: http://www.nation.co.ke/news/CA-WiFi-Internet-Rules-Cybercrime/-/1056/27711… -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/ _______________________________________________ isoc mailing list isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc -- Kind Regards, Kelvin Githira ----+254723284562 Business Development Manager www.skysys.co.ke _______________________________________________ isoc mailing list isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc

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Re: [kictanet] Tough new rules force all Internet users to list their gadgets
by cdohnio 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

This is the one of the most ridiculous things I've heard suggested, this government has proven that they know nothing about cyber security. These are the same people who wanted to implement deep packet inspection in the name of security. We have a constitutionally granted right to privacy and I for one will fight to keep it so

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Tough new rules force all Internet users to list their gadgets
by Grace Githaiga 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Kenyans using Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet in public places will be required to register their mobile devices with the Kenya Network Information Centre (Kenic), under new rules aimed at fighting cybercrime.The customers will be required to provide their telephone numbers and identity card details, which can be used to track them down should they use their gadgets to commit cybercrimes such as fraud or hacking websites. Read on: http://www.nation.co.ke/news/CA-WiFi-Internet-Rules-Cybercrime/-/1056/27711…

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Re: [kictanet] [Skunkworks] The missing art and detail of the tech exit
by John K. 30 Jun '15

30 Jun '15

Check out the last paragraph of each story. May 13th, 2015 - http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Why-start-up-owners-should-be-ready-to-s… Today - http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/the-missing-art-and-detail-of-the-tech… Are you guys perhaps using an automated story generator? The grammar and wording in certain paragraphs sounded to me a bit artificially generated, very difficult to read. Regards, John K. On 30 June 2015 at 12:17, Kennedy Kairu Kariuki via skunkworks < skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> wrote: > Correct URL - > http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/the-missing-art-and-detail-of-the-tech… > > > Kind Regards, > > Kennedy KK > > Mobile: +254-721-699119 / +254-20-5283207 > Skype: k.kairu > Gtalk: kkairu > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Mbugua Njihia via skunkworks < > skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> wrote: > >> The purpose of every business should be to create value sustainably and >> deliver a return on risk taken on capital and human resource. As the Event >> Director of Africa’s largest technology showcase where startups and >> upstarts from across Africa have in the past editions successfully launched >> to the world, the biggest gap that still exists is that of articulating the >> art and detail of the deal, inclined toward technology businesses that are >> often service based. >> ~ >> http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/the-missing-art-and-detail-of-the-tech… >> >> _______________________________________________ >> skunkworks mailing list >> skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke >> ------------ >> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe >> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks >> ------------ >> >> Skunkworks Rules >> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 >> ------------ >> Other services @ http://my.co.ke >> > > > _______________________________________________ > skunkworks mailing list > skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > ------------ > List info, subscribe/unsubscribe > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > ------------ > > Skunkworks Rules > http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 > ------------ > Other services @ http://my.co.ke >

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