[kictanet] NSA Tapping into Google & Yahoo Networks? How is Kenya protected?

[Kivuva]

On 31 October 2013 16:49, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >>On Thu, 10/31/13, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki at gmail.com> wrote:
> We need to bring the latter back home simply because the US has proven it
> cannot be trusted… It’s not that the galvanised internet is the best
> option, it’s simply a compromise because some people have broken trust…
>
> >>
> I totally agree. I am for local content, local hosting, local, local this
> and the other.  What I find difficult to understand is the myth that once
> something is local, then it is safer.
>
>
Walu, not necessarily a myth, maybe a fallacy.
If your classified data is out there with third party hosts, you have
already given it away. You have no control on how it will be used, even
with slogans like "don't be evil". :)

On the other hand, if you have hosted your content, you are the master of
your fate. Your competence will determine the security level you give your
sensitive data.


We need to be careful not to mix security with being local. Let us have two
> independent tracks on the issues.  Lets build local content to increase
> uptake, reduce latency, perhaps pricing, etc.  But I would hate to imagine
> our NSIS director briefing our President that we are very secure because we
> have made all our ICT infrastructure local.
>
> ICT Security is often discussed under CIA - Confidentiality, Integrity,
> and Availability (not central intelligence agency :-). I want to believe
> the geographic location of your data cannot save you, if your CIA
> procedures are poor. So if we want to be secure, lets put the emphasis
> where it should be.
>
> walu.
> nb: Osama bin laden was as local and as manual as you can get. US folks
> still smoked him out.
>
> ______________________
Mwendwa Kivuva
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