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

[Joseph Wayodi]

If you haven't already, you should also watch the documentary film
Zero Days [1], to see how bad cyber warfare can get, without such
rules of war; and how the prevailing secrecy around cyber warfare
isn't helping the debate.

[1] <http://www.zerodaysfilm.com/>

Joseph.

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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