Microsoft President Brad Smith Calls For a Digital Geneva Convention | Fortune.com
Listers A worthy conversation to have. Technology companies must retain the trust of their customers and must not assist governments with their hacking schemes even though world leaders may request them to do so. As an example of how technology companies can work together, he cited how Microsoft was impressed with other big tech companies like Google (GOOG, -0.39%) and Facebook (FB, -0.28%) in how they notified their users when their accounts may have been compromised in state-sponsored attacks. Read on:- http://fortune.com/2017/02/14/microsoft-president-digital-geneva-convention/ Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle Sent from my iPad
I think what is very nice about all this is the big names are stepping up to it. Also importantly, we need to give credit where it is due. This could not have also happened if the issue didn't come up as a result of the consumers of these technologies expressing their frustrations on this issue. On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet < [email protected]> wrote:
Listers
A worthy conversation to have.
Technology companies must retain the trust of their customers and must not assist governments with their hacking schemes even though world leaders may request them to do so.
As an example of how technology companies can work together, he cited how Microsoft was impressed with other big tech companies like Google <http://fortune.com/fortune500/alphabet-36/> (GOOG, -0.39%) <http://fortune.com/company/goog> and Facebook (FB, -0.28%) <http://fortune.com/company/fb> in how they notified their users when their accounts may have been compromised <https://www.wired.com/2015/10/facebook-now-warns-users-of-state-sponsored-attacks/> in state-sponsored attacks.
Read on:-
http://fortune.com/2017/02/14/microsoft-president-digital-ge neva-convention/
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Indeed Ahmed. Consider how destructive hacking can be in an IOT situation if someone decides to hack the Cloud Platform hosting hundreds of Heart Pacemakers.. This conversation is long overdue. Ali Hussein 0713601113 Get Outlook for Android On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:40 AM +0300, "Ahmed Mohamed Maawy" <[email protected]> wrote: I think what is very nice about all this is the big names are stepping up to it. Also importantly, we need to give credit where it is due. This could not have also happened if the issue didn't come up as a result of the consumers of these technologies expressing their frustrations on this issue. On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <[email protected]> wrote: Listers A worthy conversation to have. Technology companies must retain the trust of their customers and must not assist governments with their hacking schemes even though world leaders may request them to do so. As an example of how technology companies can work together, he cited how Microsoft was impressed with other big tech companies like Google (GOOG, -0.39%) and Facebook (FB, -0.28%) in how they notified their users when their accounts may have been compromised in state-sponsored attacks. Read on:- http://fortune.com/2017/02/14/microsoft-president-digital-geneva-convention/ Ali HusseinPrincipalHussein & Associates+254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/ Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ultimateprogramer%40gm... The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. -- Ahmed Maawy Principal Product Management Specialist - Al Jazeera Media Network Skype: ultimateprogramer
A bit more related to this is the concept of open source innovation (and its interesting to see Microsoft is stepping up to it also - the firm you would least expect). The market is slowly moving into service provision over app sales, and that's why also Azure is becoming a bigger deal for Microsoft nowadays. That is where also IoT steps in. When you open source not only do you welcome into your company a greater innovative capacity from the community, but you also enhance on openness / transparency and build products that the markets trust and feel they were involved in. On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Ali Hussein <[email protected]> wrote:
Indeed Ahmed. Consider how destructive hacking can be in an IOT situation if someone decides to hack the Cloud Platform hosting hundreds of Heart Pacemakers..
This conversation is long overdue.
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On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:40 AM +0300, "Ahmed Mohamed Maawy" < [email protected]> wrote:
I think what is very nice about all this is the big names are stepping up
to it. Also importantly, we need to give credit where it is due. This could not have also happened if the issue didn't come up as a result of the consumers of these technologies expressing their frustrations on this issue.
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet < [email protected]> wrote:
Listers
A worthy conversation to have.
Technology companies must retain the trust of their customers and must not assist governments with their hacking schemes even though world leaders may request them to do so.
As an example of how technology companies can work together, he cited how Microsoft was impressed with other big tech companies like Google <http://fortune.com/fortune500/alphabet-36/> (GOOG, -0.39%) <http://fortune.com/company/goog> and Facebook (FB, -0.28%) <http://fortune.com/company/fb> in how they notified their users when their accounts may have been compromised <https://www.wired.com/2015/10/facebook-now-warns-users-of-state-sponsored-attacks/> in state-sponsored attacks.
Read on:-
http://fortune.com/2017/02/14/microsoft-president-digital-ge neva-convention/
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A Geneva Digital Convention indeed is an idea whose time has come. The individual is now part of the virtual world and it is necessary to have rules/regulations at the international level binding states on the digital rights of the individual in as much as the Geneva Convention does in the physical world. I cannot agree more with the conversation prompted by the Microsoft president. On 9 Apr 2017 09:18, "Ali Hussein via kictanet" < [email protected]> wrote:
Listers
A worthy conversation to have.
Technology companies must retain the trust of their customers and must not assist governments with their hacking schemes even though world leaders may request them to do so.
As an example of how technology companies can work together, he cited how Microsoft was impressed with other big tech companies like Google <http://fortune.com/fortune500/alphabet-36/> (GOOG, -0.39%) <http://fortune.com/company/goog> and Facebook (FB, -0.28%) <http://fortune.com/company/fb> in how they notified their users when their accounts may have been compromised <https://www.wired.com/2015/10/facebook-now-warns-users-of-state-sponsored-attacks/> in state-sponsored attacks.
Read on:-
http://fortune.com/2017/02/14/microsoft-president-digital- geneva-convention/
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If you haven't already, you should also watch the documentary film Zero Days [1], to see how bad cyber warfare can get, without such rules of war; and how the prevailing secrecy around cyber warfare isn't helping the debate. [1] <http://www.zerodaysfilm.com/> Joseph. On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <[email protected]> wrote:
Listers
A worthy conversation to have.
Technology companies must retain the trust of their customers and must not assist governments with their hacking schemes even though world leaders may request them to do so.
As an example of how technology companies can work together, he cited how Microsoft was impressed with other big tech companies like Google (GOOG, -0.39%) and Facebook (FB, -0.28%) in how they notified their users when their accounts may have been compromised in state-sponsored attacks.
Read on:-
http://fortune.com/2017/02/14/microsoft-president-digital-geneva-convention/
Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113
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For those in Computer Science especially in ICT4D, the link below may be of interest: http://www.varsitypodcasts.co. za/shows/research-report-s1- e4-deaf-adults-training-in- computer-literacy/ John Kariuki
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