[kictanet] Google-Mocality: All's well that ends well?

[James Richu]

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>
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Meanwhile, *CIO East Africa* has requested and is still waiting for as
statement from Mocality CEO, Stefan Magdalinski on the matter.
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On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <kictanet-request at lists.kictanet.or.ke>wrote:

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>   1. Re: E-Voting | Information Security (Edwin Onchari)
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> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:31:44 +0300
> From: "Edwin Onchari" <eonchari at lynxbits.com>
> To: "'Walubengo J'" <jwalu at yahoo.com>
> Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions' <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] E-Voting | Information Security
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> 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 at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com at 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
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>
>
>
> 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.
>
> --- On Sat, 1/28/12, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>
> Subject: [kictanet] E-Voting | Information Security
> To: jwalu at yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at 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 at mailcan.com>
> wrote:
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> 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:
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>
> 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 at cased.de> wrote:
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>
> From: Maina Olembo <maina.olembo at cased.de>
> Subject: RE: Survey on Internet Voting and Polling Station Voting in Kenya
> To: jwalu at 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
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> SecUSo - IT Security, Usability and Society
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