@Eng Kariuki, I think i have partly answered this in an earlier post. Basically, if the digital content is within your physical or geographic domain, it is easier to quickly deal with the security breach...e.g by locally implementing shutdown procedures. Ofcourse this may not put the remote criminal in custody, but it may limit his actions if the local servers are the ones he using to perpetrate the crime. walu. ------------------------------ On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 8:28 PM AST (Arabian) ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Walu please advise.What would the local police do when the cyber criminal is in some distant island? Sent from my BlackBerry®

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@WhiteAfrican,

I do get your message. But your language might be considered too strong by @BlackAfrican standard and folks may take offense. Check Ali's post on the same - same message, different words :-)

That said, I think the King @CCK has been caught "naked". Maybe the planned regulation is to make ALL GOVERNMENT data local (which is within the government/regulatory scope to make the call). Or maybe he was misquoted, 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 was argued 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 as deterrent against would-be cybercriminals.

I however dont think that this should lead to a decree that everyone MUST host locally because then I will have to give up my jwalu@yahoo.com mail account 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 LOCALLY To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 4:41 PM

This is the kind of stupidity that makes you wonder if the people dealing with the internet regulations and policy at CCK even know what the internet is. 

--  Erik Hersman

Ushahidi | iHub | BRCK@WhiteAfrican

On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote: Absolutely absurd if this is in fact true. How does hosting sites locally mitigated against cybercrime?

What business does anyone have dictating to me where i can and can't host my websites?

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:

Listers

The Communications Commission of Kenya has proposed a licensing condition that may compel Internet service providers (ISPs) to bring websites hosted offshore back to the country in the fight against cyber crime...

http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/CCK-pushes-firms-to-host-w...

I sincerely hope that the DG was somehow misquoted on this story. Whilst its a good idea to host sites locally this in no way stops cybercrime or mitigates it. Infact with the rudimentary security infrastructure most providers have I will be loath to host any site locally leave alone an Ecommerce one locally.

Can government please focus on legislation and regulation instead of butting into my business and telling me where I should host my website??  

Ali Hussein

+254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113 "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein

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