@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-Governance-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
I’ll very selfishly
advocate for an increased uptake of local cloud services,
away from the NSA’s prying eyes, with locally established
standards of encryption etc…
We’ve got capable
universities that can assist in coming up with new
encryption etc standards for the military &
government.
Interesting article by
Charles
Obbo…. http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Spy-more-on-your-friends-than-foes/-/440808/2053660/-/j8oy4g/-/index.html
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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-links-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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