As promised, Google has acted on the Mocality fiasco, with Nelson Mattos, Google's Vice-President for Product and Engineering, Europe and Emerging Markets issuing the following statement on Friday evening:
"We've concluded our investigation into the serious allegations about our use of data from Mocality's website in Kenya. We're very sorry this happened. We've taken appropriate action with the people involved and made changes in our operations to ensure this doesn't occur again."
Vague as the above statement might be, Nairobitech blog reports that Google has fired Olga-Arara Kimani, its country Director for Kenya.
Meanwhile, CIO East Africa has requested and is still waiting for as statement from Mocality CEO, Stefan Magdalinski on the matter.
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1. Re: E-Voting | Information Security (Edwin Onchari)
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Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:31:44 +0300
From: "Edwin Onchari" <eonchari@lynxbits.com>
To: "'Walubengo J'" <jwalu@yahoo.com>
Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions' <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] E-Voting | Information Security
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Walu,
I concur??.Spread the risk?have a backing up and an air-tight verification
process for the transmitted data/info. A rigorous authentication
protocol?just like a commander in chief in a first world would when
authorizing a ?nuclear warhead? deployment?because the ramifications of
doing it with error are indeed grave to say the least
Edwin
From: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
Behalf Of Walubengo J
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 7:42 PM
To: Edwin
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] E-Voting | Information Security
Waudo,
yes, we dont want hackers topping up candidate votes - whether
electronically or physically. So I hope the Election Commission will be
quite keen on this. It might be comforting that the IT Director at the
commission is an ISACA member with the CISM/CISA credentials and this means
he perhaps knows a thing or two about security.;-)
Muraya.
Yes, there is never anything like 100% security. One simply has to work on
minimising the risk.
walu.
--- On Sat, 1/28/12, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com> wrote:
From: S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>
Subject: [kictanet] E-Voting | Information Security
To: jwalu@yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012, 12:39 PM
Loopholes are never fully sealed... thus continual software patches /
upgrades.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/symantec-source-code-hack/
We need to follow audit trails enabled in network | storage systems,
involving the OS (file & identification systems), application severs,
clients (packages)...
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:31 PM, waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com>
wrote:
Hi Walu - I hope the loopholes that led to the Govt site hackings will have
been resolved else I would not like to imagine the servers of the electoral
commission being hacked as the results are being tallied. No more riots
please!
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012, at 07:15 AM, Walubengo J wrote:
Now that Kenya might go e-Voting this year (http://tinyurl.com/7dbctnl) why
not support the researcher below as she figures out it it will work or not.
walu.
--- On Fri, 1/27/12, Maina Olembo <maina.olembo@cased.de> wrote:
From: Maina Olembo <maina.olembo@cased.de>
Subject: RE: Survey on Internet Voting and Polling Station Voting in Kenya
To: jwalu@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, January 27, 2012, 3:04 PM
Hallo,
I would like to ask for a few minutes of your time.
I am carrying out a study as part of doctoral research on Internet voting
and polling station voting in Kenya. The goal of this study is to gain
insight on perceptions of polling station voting and Internet voting.
If you would like to participate, please click on the link below:
Fill out questionnaire
<https://www.soscisurvey.de/InternetVoting/index.php?q=SurveyIVotingKE&l=eng
>
The password is internet.
Thank you in advance for your time and interest.
Your input is invaluable.
--
Maina M. Olembo
Doctoral Researcher
SecUSo - IT Security, Usability and Society
Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt
TU Darmstadt
Department of Computer Science
Building S2|02
Hochschulstra?e 10
D-64289 Darmstadt
Phone: +49(0) 6151 16 64292
Fax: +49(0) 6151 16 4825
Email: maina.olembo@cased.de
Web: www.secuso.cased.de
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