[kictanet] Microsoft President Brad Smith Calls For a Digital Geneva Convention | Fortune.com

[Ali Hussein]

Indeed Ahmed. Consider how destructive hacking can be in an IOT situation if someone decides to hack the Cloud Platform hosting hundreds of Heart Pacemakers..


This conversation is long overdue. 




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On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:40 AM +0300, "Ahmed Mohamed Maawy" <ultimateprogramer at gmail.com> wrote:










I think what is very nice about all this is the big names are stepping up to it. Also importantly, we need to give credit where it is due. This could not have also happened if the issue didn't come up as a result of the consumers of these technologies expressing their frustrations on this issue.


On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers
A worthy conversation to have.
Technology companies must retain the trust of their customers and must not assist governments with their hacking schemes even though world leaders may request them to do so.
As an example of how technology companies can work together, he cited how Microsoft was impressed with other big tech companies like Google (GOOG, -0.39%) and Facebook (FB, -0.28%) in how they notified their users when their accounts may have been compromised in state-sponsored attacks.
Read on:-
http://fortune.com/2017/02/14/microsoft-president-digital-geneva-convention/

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