Ali,

Tell them...

Listers,

Decided to do a bit of back-of-napkin math on cost proposal for counter -terrorism as a little lunch exercise.

If you were to hire the best 100 guys coming out of our Universities in Computer Science, Maths & Electronics at say Ksh 250k / month each (Ksh 4M / year) to join an elite hacking unit, comparable to NSA, you would do so at a budget of Ksh 400M / Year. Put in another Ksh 400M for Operations and Ksh 1B / Year would be enough to ran this Unit / Year.

Go ahead and hire top consultants to teach our guys top-notch Network building, configurations and maintenance and hire the top Huwaei guys here on retainer. Lets say we give them Ksh 15M / Year each, being 10 guys, that works out to Ksh 150M / year to hire consultants who can build and maintain as we learn from them.

Our guys would in short order build for you any network you could think of using COTS Equipment and there would *not* be any electronic communication targeting Kenyans that would be out of our reach and more importantly we would be able to roll out and maintain our own security network and perhaps sell our capabilities to Uganda, Ethiopia.

So, Ksh 1.5B / Year you have a crack hacking and maintenance unit.

How much for the communication equipment?
Lets just say you are using the high -end Motorola MC75A, comes at about $2,000 a pop including encryption cards, meaning you can use the already existing mobile networks while giving GoK Personnel their own VPN Channels. If you were to buy one unit for every 2 cops (35,000) in the whole country, you are looking at about Ksh 4B.

It still beats me why we would want to build a 4G LTE Security Network that will at most be used by 100,000 Personnel.

CCTV, these ones should even be done by Youth Companies, but at Ksh 2,000 a pop, you could buy and install 100,000 of these at about Ksh 400M, put another 600M to bring it to Ksh 1B of 100,000 CCTV Cameras installed

So at an initial investment of:
Ksh 1.5B ->Crack Hacking Unit & Maintenance team
Ksh 4B -> Communication Equipment ( 1 in every two cops)
Ksh 1B -> 100,000 CCTV Equipment
Ksh 2B -> Other Equipment (Servers, Computer Equipment, Software)

There is not a pin that would drop around here that we wouldn't know about.

From here, we would need a high - response crack team to tackle security incidences across the country. Say 500 guys of our best commandos.
Again each getting Ksh 4M / year to keep them highly motivated, that's Ksh 2.0B / Year.
Fighting Gear, each guy with Ksh 1M of fighting gear, that's Ksh 500M CAPEX

Now, the expensive part is how to get them there. Say you need to drop 100 guys quickly, what do you need, Transport Helicopters, say you go for the Boeing CH-47 Chinook, that's 25M USD a pop, carrying 50 guys each, we get four of those, so thats 100M USD or Ksh 9B.

Get a few attack Helicopters, at say USD 20M a pop, say we get 10, that's USD 200M thats approx Ksh 15B.

Now we got a team that can hit anywhere in this country at most an 30mins - 1 hours notice.

How much for crack anti-terrorism unit.
CAPEX: Ksh 30B
Per Year Operational Costs (Salaries + Equipment Maintenance): Ksh 5B / year

If you spread the CAPEX over 5 years, say as a loan, you are doing about Ksh 6B / year for 5 years, which to this country is almost a rounding off error seeing that Ministries are taking back hundreds of billions in unused funds every year.

With this, a Turkana herder (now former ngoroko) will be passing a lone cow in Baragoi / Suguta Valley without so much as a second look at it, knowing fire raining from above is just 30 mins away.

So, how does my proposal compare to say the Safaricom Ksh 15B proposal to put a security network in Nairobi & Mombasa?

Jury is out there...


On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Sitting ducks is what we are.

The only solution to this is a homegrown industry able to ensure that National Interests are safeguarded. This starts from killing the culture in security tenders (and other sectors) where the catchphrase is:-

'You must have revenues of $100 million and above to qualify for this tender.' And other such clauses which are geared towards the size of the payoff to corrupt networks as opposed to the best solution.'

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On Jun 19, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Gichuki John Chuksjonia via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

US and UK C4ISR programs were the reason they were able to know of the
attacks before hand and pull their people off Coast region. We know of
the company Booz and Allen where Snowden used to work, and the hacks
they did on Huawei equipments.

On 6/19/14, Ngigi Waithaka via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
In Intelligence business, you trust no one!

Every country does what is best for it's *own* interests. If putting
backdoors in tech equipment is to the US / Chinese interests, they will do
it and they have done it.

The only you can avoid this, is either you manufacture your own equipment
or on the very least assemble equipment from COTS for sensitive areas or
you also get very adept at identifying & removing the backdoors.

Rgds


On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Mark Mwangi via kictanet <
kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

So we now distrust the Chinese based on the information offered by the
Americans who are running a worldwide spying program tapping just about
everyone? Lets not even get started on the back-doors installed in
equipment built by the Americans.


On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Matunda Nyanchama via kictanet <
kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

On this subject, it is curious that Safaricom's partner in the project
is Chinese Telcom giant Huawei.

Americans have reservations, apprehensive/suspicious Huwawei technology
wrt spying. Here is an excerpt

"U.S. House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers somewhat
famously said <http://j.mp/ICrmay> last year that Huawei's products
"cannot be trusted to be free of foreign state influence and thus pose a
security threat to the United States and to our systems." The committee
also released a report that accused Huawei of all kinds of bad behavior
including bribery, corruption, and immigration violations. Huawei, of
course, denied the claims
<http://www.huawei.com/en/about-huawei/newsroom/press-release/hw-194454-hpsci.htm>
."

Full article Here.
<http://gizmodo.com/accused-of-spying-huawei-ceo-says-company-is-exiting-1475628703>


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