[kictanet] New Software to deepen spying on internet users

[John Gitau]

Hey tomslin,

yes the situation demands that we be ipv6 ready. And quite a number of us
are involved in this as I know you are either as a consultant or trainer.
But looking at most networks, and applications including the developers to
develop them, we are nowhere near large scale migrations.

The central IPv4 pool got depleted a while back so thats gone. However
Africa is one of the few places where an ISP can start from zero and get a
/20 or even a /19 from afrinic's v4 pool.

The issue I have with the article is its understandability especially by
the people that read newspapers. If the journalist doesn't understand it,
how in the world is he to communicate clearly. to say IPv6 will be used for
'spying' might work against its adoption by the common guy is one thing
that comes to mind. Also today If Safariocm with the biggest customer base
is able to give V4 space to each customer/business, I dont see how other
ISP's cant. my point being with v4 as with v6, the spying (whatever that
means) can occur. IP should be de-coupled from the 'spying' statements.

gitau


On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Tomslin Samme-Nlar <s.tomsleen at gmail.com>wrote:

> @John - I think we are. If you look at the image below that summarizes the
> availability in the central IPv4 pool as of 31/01/2011, you'll agree we
> are, and projections show only Africa will still have available v4 address
> by mid 2014. So I think it is also an issue.
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
>
> Sleen
>
> www.onelifeconsult.com
> www.vmbgmusik.com
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> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:46 AM, John Gitau <jgitau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well you were not that anonymous anyway. I'm sure something will give at
>> some point.
>>
>> On the other hand we might need to do a workshop called 'technology for
>> journalists' if they are to keep writing articles like these.
>>
>> And if this is about ipv6 we are nowhere near large scale migration yet.
>> But so much is going on in that area right now.
>>
>> The bigger issue is people using resources outside our borders. Like
>> foreign smtp servers, or foreign originated sms's. ISPs would need very
>> clear terms. For instance only allowing email through their smtp servers
>> for onward relay, or heuristicaly blocking messages based on some
>> algorithm.
>>
>> Gitau
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On 3 Sep 2012, at 07:59, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>>
>> Listers
>>
>> Could this be a case of sensationalism? Or does the Government really
>> want to have a sneak on whatever you do online?
>>
>> From experience we know that anyone can be traced using IP addresses
>> unique to a computer or mobile phone. Read on and judge for yourself?
>>
>>
>> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/New+software+to+deepen+spying+on+Internet+users+/-/539546/1493584/-/ig0bka/-/index.html
>>
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