On 8 March 2017 at 20:07, K Machuhi via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
What is the worst that can happen when CIA or DCI for that matter gains such intimate access to our private lives from texts and CDRs?
Prepare for it or else enrol in a Smoke Signal Communications class.
Possibly, humankind's rights to privacy was buried in rumble one bright September morning 15 years ago.
I had a longer response to this, but I will make its short with an illustration, and allows us to digest. Kenya GDP vs US GDP year 2015: Kenya : $63.4 billion per year United States : $18.04 trillion per year Relative value ratio: Unites States : 284.5 Kenya : 1 Relative value Comparison: United States : 2850% larger Kenya : 99.65% smaller So lets compare notes on those GDP percentages after 10 years with that reasoning where we have one state have access to all our insights, while we have zero of theirs. When you look at surveillance in terms of how it affects parochial people who have no friction with the state is loosing the bigger picture. It means your patents, research, trade secrets, business deals are all with the big brother. When Kenya goes to negotiate a business deal with US, they already know what we discussed in private, and have already a counter proposal to which we don't have any counter offer. This is just one example. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=kenya+gdp+vs+US+gdp Regards ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh