[kictanet] CCK PUSHES LOCAL FIRMS TO HOST WEBSITES LOCALLY

Wed Nov 27 20:12:20 EAT 2013

Walu

How does local hosting does give local enforcement (police, prosecution,
judiciary) some teeth ?

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> @WhiteAfrican,
>
> I do get your message.  But your language might be considered too strong
> by @BlackAfrican standard and folks may take offense. Check Ali's post on
> the same - same message, different words :-)
>
> That said, I think the King @CCK has been caught "naked".    Maybe the
> planned regulation is to make ALL GOVERNMENT data local (which is within
> the government/regulatory scope to make the call). Or maybe he was
> misquoted, or maybe I might be trying to hard to do the PR job for CCK...
>
> @Wambua, you have off late gone completely underground?
>
> walu.
> nb: the benefit of local hosting within the context of cybersecurity was
> argued on a 1-on-1 between me and Sammy B and we came to some consensus :-
> that local hosting does give local enforcement (police, prosecution,
> judiciary) some teeth...and by extension this in itself can act as
> deterrent against would-be cybercriminals.
>
> I however dont think that this should  lead to a decree that everyone MUST
> host locally because then I will have to give up my jwalu at yahoo.com mail
> account to avoid hosting my mails abroad :-)
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Wed, 11/27/13, Erik Hersman <erik at zungu.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [kictanet] CCK PUSHES LOCAL FIRMS TO HOST WEBSITES LOCALLY
>  To: jwalu at yahoo.com
>  Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>  Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 4:41 PM
>
>  This is the kind of
>  stupidity that makes you wonder if the people dealing with
>  the internet regulations and policy at CCK even know what
>  the internet is.
>
>
>  --
>  Erik Hersman
>
>  Ushahidi | iHub | BRCK at WhiteAfrican
>
>  On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Rad!
>  <conradakunga at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>  Absolutely absurd if this is in
>  fact true.
>  How does hosting sites locally mitigated against
>  cybercrime?
>
>  What business does anyone have dictating to me
>  where i can and can't host my websites?
>
>
>  On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at
>  6:35 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke>
>  wrote:
>
>  Listers
>
>  The Communications
>  Commission of Kenya has proposed a licensing condition that
>  may compel Internet service providers (ISPs) to bring
>  websites hosted offshore back to the country in the fight
>  against cyber crime...
>
>
> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/CCK-pushes-firms-to-host-websites-locally-in-new-rules/-/539550/2089412/-/15ly5o1z/-/index.html
>
>  I sincerely hope that the DG was
>  somehow misquoted on this story. Whilst its a good idea to
>  host sites locally this in no way stops cybercrime or
>  mitigates it. Infact with the rudimentary security
>  infrastructure most providers have I will be loath to host
>  any site locally leave alone an Ecommerce one
>  locally.
>
>  Can government please focus on
>  legislation and regulation instead of butting into my
>  business and telling me where I should host my website??
>
>
>  Ali Hussein
>
>  +254 0770 906375 / 0713
>  601113
>  "I fear the day technology will
>  surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation
>  of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein
>
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