[kictanet] [Skunkworks] Media Misleading Citizens?-One Man Security?

Wed Mar 21 18:49:23 EAT 2012

--- On Wed, 3/21/12, Moses Muya <mouzmuyer at gmail.com> wrote
>snip
The only question that comes to mind is whether the Government has the right legal backing to do this.

>snip

mmmhhh...I think a better question to ask is whether you want the Government or Regulator to have this type of legal backing. Wearing my security hat, I can tell you for free that national cyber-security initiatives can never be effective using a "one-stakeholder, do it as I say" approach...(unless u are in China and related cousins like North Korea)

Lets for a moment imagine that there is legal backing and ALL Operators are compelled to install this gadget.  Would we then claim to be electronically safer? Research shows that over 75% of electronic fraud/crime originates and is executed internally (like within Banks/Organisations) and hence putting gadgets at the Operators level presupposes the most of the bad guys are comming in from the "outside".  Fine you may catch the minotrity thugs (25%) but have not impact on the majority internal thugs (the 75%...)

A secondary but equally important point, is what would stop the Director General (my good friend Wangusi) to use the very same equipment to block internet traffic into and out of  the Kenyan space? Especially if Kenyans are trying to do the equivalent of the Arab uprising on Twitter/FB/etc...which is likely considering our politics is not really improving (but I digress)

Am not purely against security gadgets being installed.  Am against a framework that puts one man or woman in charge of these gadgets. Even our new constitution puts the Police and Security Intelligence bosses under Parliament (210 MPs?)

If we are not carefull we may be basically putting Kenya back to the days of one-man-show. Remember one broadcasting station - Voice of Kenya? remember KPT&C - the days of JamboNet? Same thing here on the offing - if we are to believe what has been published in the press (and why not, no one from CCK has protested as  being misquoted) .

walu.

--- On Wed, 3/21/12, Moses Muya <mouzmuyer at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Moses Muya <mouzmuyer at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] [Skunkworks] Media Misleading Citizens?
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 5:07 PM

To the best of my understanding,the story makes perfect sense! The government wants to implement N.E.W.S and ITU is helping it. One of ITU's objective is "To improve telecommunication infrastructure in the developing world and to establish worldwide standards". If part of "worldwide standards" is using telecommunications infrastructure to safeguard the security and interests of a country,they are the correct people to help in this. Moreover,seeing as ITU is part of the U.N,I would argue that they have the financial and technical might needed to do this. The only question that comes to mind is whether the Government has the right legal backing to do this.

On 21 March 2012 09:03, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:

Moses,

The reason i called it misinformation is that the acting DG was on the

media when the deal was being signed , unless i was watching Al

Kajiado TV  and i never heard anything like this, furthermore last

year we had a Cyber Security Workshop hosted by CCK where all those

issues were explained but i dont recall seeing brethren from the

fourth estate, that is why i proposed that they should do more

research, imho this kind of reporting can defeat the war on

Cybersecurity since the people are an integral part of the Cyberworld.

On 3/21/12, Moses Muya <mouzmuyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't be quick to call this 'misinformation'. Such systems have been

> deployed the world over,even by the biggest democracies! It all depends on

> the Government's objectives for doing this - they could go the U.S.A way

> and crack down on terrorism or they could go the China way and use it to

> oppress us!

>

> On 21 March 2012 08:27, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> Listers,

>>

>> I just saw this on the wall of a popular media house and i am appalled

>> by the misinformation, why can't our dear journalists do more research

>> before publishing info, i see why Prof Nyong'o was so agitated during

>> the Interview on Citizen TV, this is really dangerous? below is the

>> text..

>>

>> The Communications Commission of Kenya could have access to your

>> personal internet content by July this year, if a plan they have set

>> in motion succeeds. The CCK has signed a 32.6 million shilling deal

>> with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to install a

>> system that will monitor all incoming and outgoing internet content in

>> Kenya, and has already requested local internet service providers and

>> telecommunications institutions to install it.

>>

>> Do you think this is right?

>>

>> Hope the concerned will react on time.

>>

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>

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