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

[Ahmed Mohamed Maawy]

A bit more related to this is the concept of open source innovation (and
its interesting to see Microsoft is stepping up to it also - the firm you
would least expect). The market is slowly moving into service provision
over app sales, and that's why also Azure is becoming a bigger deal for
Microsoft nowadays. That is where also IoT steps in.

When you open source not only do you welcome into your company a greater
innovative capacity from the community, but you also enhance on openness /
transparency and build products that the markets trust and feel they were
involved in.

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Ali Hussein
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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
>>> <http://fortune.com/fortune500/alphabet-36/> (GOOG, -0.39%)
>>> <http://fortune.com/company/goog> and Facebook (FB, -0.28%)
>>> <http://fortune.com/company/fb> in how they notified their users when
>>> their accounts may have been compromised
>>> <https://www.wired.com/2015/10/facebook-now-warns-users-of-state-sponsored-attacks/> in
>>> state-sponsored attacks.
>>>
>>> Read on:-
>>>
>>> http://fortune.com/2017/02/14/microsoft-president-digital-ge
>>> neva-convention/
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*Ahmed Maawy*
Principal Product Management Specialist - Al Jazeera Media Network
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