@Phares,
this line of thinking was has been explored recently at
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.
-------------------------------------------- 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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@Sammy, You've lost me. I agree with what you say below, that I am confused and still searching for the point of disagreement... walu. -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 10/31/13, Sammy Buruchara <buruchara@me.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [kictanet] NSA Tapping into Google & Yahoo Networks? How is Kenya protected? To: "Walubengo J" <jwalu@yahoo.com> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 11:24 AM Mr. Walubengo, While not present at the IGF, and without a lot hesitation, I respectfully disagree with the view you have shared, that was taken at IGF in relation to securing countries. While there is a need for international cooperation, National Security at the end of the day is a matter for individual countries with various priorities 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 operate within their borders and laws govern within those borders. The push for internationalization or globalization has been going on for a while but that is a subject for another day. But while each country may not need to build their own email systems ( and they should) there is a need for countries to develop their own online applications and security systems instead of depending on those from other countries for obvious reasons highlighted very well in recent news media. One would be foolish to continue relying on popular western online services for example, for a government's Mission Critical communications and would only blame themselves for consequences of such strategies. Regards Sammy Buruchara On 10/31/13 11:10 AM, "Walubengo J" <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote: the IGF and I had personalize, respect
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