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<http://nairobitech.blogspot.com/2012/01/olga-arara-out-in-google-mocality-saga.html> . Meanwhile, *CIO East Africa* has requested and is still waiting for as statement from Mocality CEO, Stefan Magdalinski on the matter. * * * ------------------------ Jim Comptech Systems. Tel: 254 20 2503637, 254 716 852202, 254 735 195969 Occidental Plaza, 4th Flr., Muthithi Rd. Westlands. P.O.Box 73639 - 00200, Nairobi, Kenya.** http://www.jimcomptech.com* * * * * On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke>wrote:

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1. Re: E-Voting | Information Security (Edwin Onchari)

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Message: 1 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 Message-ID: <000901ccddfb$dcc639d0$9652ad70$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

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.

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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

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