This realization in itself will increase self-regulation at User,Content Provider and Operator levels.
@Liko, @Eng Karuiki,
Recall that this local hosting/ cyber security is not my ideal position. Just a consensus understanding I picked from my long online argument on the same with Sammy B.
But maybe we can use the defamation example. If I defamed someone on a blog hosted locally, it is easier to enforce a pull-down order from a local court as oppsed to if the content sits abroad and physically under a different jurisdiction.
Enforcement is therfore easier because one can walk up to the server room and make arrests if the techies decline to implement an order.
This realization in itself will increase self-regulation at User,Content Provider and Operator levels.
my 2pings.
walu.
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 8:12 PM AST (Arabian) Agosta Liko wrote:WaluHow does local hosting does give local enforcement (police, prosecution,judiciary) some teeth ?On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:@WhiteAfrican,I do get your message. But your language might be considered too strongby @BlackAfrican standard and folks may take offense. Check Ali's post onthe same - same message, different words :-)That said, I think the King @CCK has been caught "naked". Maybe theplanned regulation is to make ALL GOVERNMENT data local (which is withinthe government/regulatory scope to make the call). Or maybe he wasmisquoted, or maybe I might be trying to hard to do the PR job for CCK...@Wambua, you have off late gone completely underground?walu.nb: the benefit of local hosting within the context of cybersecurity wasargued on a 1-on-1 between me and Sammy B and we came to some consensus :-that local hosting does give local enforcement (police, prosecution,judiciary) some teeth...and by extension this in itself can act asdeterrent against would-be cybercriminals.I however dont think that this should lead to a decree that everyone MUSThost locally because then I will have to give up my jwalu@yahoo.com mailaccount to avoid hosting my mails abroad :-)--------------------------------------------On Wed, 11/27/13, Erik Hersman <erik@zungu.com> wrote:Subject: Re: [kictanet] CCK PUSHES LOCAL FIRMS TO HOST WEBSITES LOCALLYTo: jwalu@yahoo.comCc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 4:41 PMThis is the kind ofstupidity that makes you wonder if the people dealing withthe internet regulations and policy at CCK even know whatthe internet is.--Erik HersmanUshahidi | iHub | BRCK@WhiteAfricanOn Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Rad!<conradakunga@gmail.com>wrote:Absolutely absurd if this is infact true.How does hosting sites locally mitigated againstcybercrime?What business does anyone have dictating to mewhere i can and can't host my websites?On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at6:35 AM, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke>wrote:ListersThe CommunicationsCommission of Kenya has proposed a licensing condition thatmay compel Internet service providers (ISPs) to bringwebsites hosted offshore back to the country in the fightagainst cyber crime...http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/CCK-pushes-firms-to-host-websites-locally-in-new-rules/-/539550/2089412/-/15ly5o1z/-/index.htmlI sincerely hope that the DG wassomehow misquoted on this story. Whilst its a good idea tohost sites locally this in no way stops cybercrime ormitigates it. Infact with the rudimentary securityinfrastructure most providers have I will be loath to hostany site locally leave alone an Ecommerce onelocally.Can government please focus onlegislation and regulation instead of butting into mybusiness and telling me where I should host my website??Ali Hussein+254 0770 906375 / 0713601113"I fear the day technology willsurpass human interaction. The world will have a generationof idiots". ~ Albert EinsteinSent from my iPad_______________________________________________kictanet mailing listkictanet@lists.kictanet.or.kehttps://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanetUnsubscribe or change your options athttps://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/conradakunga%40gmail.comThe Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is amulti-stakeholder platform for people and institutionsinterested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. 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