Listers
There is a case for a hybrid approach to Internet Security and Governance. No one wants Balkanisation of the Internet but no one also wants one country controlling most of the levers that run the Internet running roughshod over everyone else!!
Here is a telling interview from the NSA Director on the latest #SnowdenAffair
Judge for yourself...and as you do that think about all the emails that run on google apps and yahoo and Microsoft platforms including most of the senior guys in county government and possibly national government..
I shudder to think that we have institutions like the NIS and ICTA and CCK and this practice is still going on in Government.lets not even start with Private Companies..
Sitting Ducks is what we are..
Ali Hussein
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Sent from my iPad Mr. Walubengo,While not present at the IGF, and without a lot hesitation, I respectfullydisagree with the view you have shared, that was taken at IGF in relationto securing countries.While there is a need for international cooperation, National Security atthe end of the day is a matter for individual countries with variouspriorities in regard to their security.This also has an impact in terms of relationships between countries.Therefore it would be ill-advised to through security concerns to"International" where we know exactly what that term refers to.Whereas the Internet has crossed boundaries, countries still operatewithin their borders and laws govern within those borders. The push forinternationalization or globalization has been going on for a while butthat is a subject for another day.But while each country may not need to build their own email systems ( andthey should) there is a need for countries to develop their own onlineapplications and security systems instead of depending on those from othercountries for obvious reasons highlighted very well in recent news media.One would be foolish to continue relying on popular western onlineservices for example, for a government's Mission Critical communicationsand would only blame themselves for consequences of such strategies.RegardsSammy BurucharaOn 10/31/13 11:10 AM, "Walubengo J" <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:@Phares,
this line of thinking was has been explored recently at the IGF and I had
a different angle to it and I quote:
Whereas having each economy build its own email, social media and other
web-based systems may provide national pride and a debatable sense of
national security, it unfortunately goes towards balkanising the Internet
along existing national geographic boundaries.
The final effect will be a diminished value for online services. Search
engines will end up with only a localised or national view of data, as
opposed to the more international view currently enjoyed by keeping the
Internet open and global.
more
@
http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/Lessons-from-the-Global-Internet-G
overnance-Forum/-/1959700/2051402/-/ouee6l/-/index.html
walu.
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On Thu, 10/31/13, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [kictanet] NSA Tapping into Google & Yahoo Networks? How is
Kenya protected?
To: jwalu@yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 10:09 AM
I¹ll very selfishly
advocate for an increased uptake of local cloud services,
away from the NSA¹s prying eyes, with locally established
standards of encryption etcŠ
We¹ve got capable
universities that can assist in coming up with new
encryption etc standards for the military &
government.
Interesting article by
Charles
ObboŠ.
http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Spy-more-on-your-friends-than-foes/-/
440808/2053660/-/j8oy4g/-/index.html
--
Phares Kariuki
From: Ngigi
Waithaka Ngigi Waithaka
Reply: Ngigi Waithaka
ngigi@at.co.ke
Date: October 31, 2013 at
9:12:10 AM
To: Phares Kariuki pkariuki@gmail.com
Subject: [kictanet] NSA
Tapping into Google & Yahoo Networks? How is Kenya
protected?
Listers,
Just came across this
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-link
s-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/
e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html?hpid=z1
It looks like Google might have been caught by the NSA
with
their pants down since hacking into their Data Transport
layer
simply gives up all the secrets that encryption is supposed
to be
protecting.
Now, moving on swiftly to the local setup, I am also
concerned
that even as we look to start pushing for National Standards
of
Encryption through the PKI project, whether we as a country
have
come together to review and see how to protect our countries
intelligence and data.
We also know for a fact that the US was busy tapping
into
World Leaders phones, and I can bet if there are a few
presidents
to be 'tapped' in Africa, ours should be way up on
that
ladder!
However, more worrying would be, how protected are our
internal networks from such tapping, even from locals? Could
there
be a guy who has tapped into Safaricoms internal network and
is
busy reading every email, chat that is flying through and
perhaps
selling such information to our erstwhile enemies the
Al-Shabbab?
I was once very surprised when a personal friend got a
transcript of all his calls, and chat messages,
word-for-word for
the previous past 6 months, dug up from one of the local
Telcos.
The ease with which such information was availed appalled me
as it
clearly means that the Telcos clearly store all our chats,
and such
records in clear text months after we have used them and a
guy with
basic SQL knowledge just needs to hack into the network
(easy) and
call them up.
So, as we continue with the PKI project, there are
really very
basic things on security of data that we as a nation
haven't even
dealt with.
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