[kictanet] Media Misleading Citizens?

Wed Mar 21 19:09:44 EAT 2012

While at it, let's laud ourselves  as a country of many "firsts" - this is
another feather in the cap, coming up with the 

first ever Great Firewall of Africa - going by the reasons advanced for
procuring the Technology.

Roping in the Internet Service providers to ensure that the 'Internet
Traffic Cop" spies on all traffic in and out of their 

networks is certainly another "first",never heard it anywhere else other
than outside the continent. Corrections welcome.

Again from a limited perspective, I suppose technical implementation would
require a single point of Filter for some 

several terabyte of traffic flowing in and out of the country, - quite a
daunting task if not herculean if you'd ask me, 

leave alone gleaning the same data packets scouting for some obscure
hackivist trying to launch an attack, so I 

definitely look forward to seeing how this works out.

Similarly, will this not create another single point of failure for our
internet, just days now emerging from one of the

biggest outages this country has ever witnessed..? Perhaps the firewall may
have the High Availability feature in 

case it's hardware crashes hopefully..? Just speculating. Probably a more
manageable aspect of this that could be 

technically and  economically feasible is to install a packet sniffer to
monitor and police Government data gateways 

as a start. 

Who will man this.?

Harry

From: kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
Behalf Of Grace Githaiga
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 4:43 PM
To: harry at comtelsys.co.ke
Cc: ke-internetusers at bdix.net; kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Media Misleading Citizens?

Barrack

Here is the full story as carried by business daily. It may not be
misinformation after all.

CCK sparks row with fresh bid to spy on Internet users
<http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/CCK+sparks+row+with+fresh
+bid+to+spy+on+Internet+users+/-/539550/1370218/-/item/1/-/4gnwl5/-/index.ht
ml>
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/CCK+sparks+row+with+fresh+
bid+to+spy+on+Internet+users+/-/539550/1370218/-/item/1/-/4gnwl5/-/index.htm
l 

Rgds

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> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:27:19 +0300
> From: otieno.barrack at gmail.com
> Subject: [kictanet] Media Misleading Citizens?
> CC: ke-internetusers at bdix.net; kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Barrack O. Otieno
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> +254-20-2498789
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