[kictanet] Press Statement By CA on DMS - rev 1.doc

[Anderson Levi]

You can't fool all of the people all of the time.


On 18 Feb 2017 11:10, "Odhiambo Washington via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

>
>
> On 17 February 2017 at 14:31, Alwala, Rachel via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Hello Listers.
>>
>> Please see the statement from CA regarding the Device Management System
>> that is under deployment. We hope listers shall objectively engage and seek
>> to understand what the regulator is doing in the interest of the public.
>> Media reports on this were misleading, but be rest assured we shall
>> continue to engage all stakeholders so that they can be in full picture.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rachel
>>
>
> Okiya Omtata will save us from this CA mischief.
>
> It's mischief whichever way you look at it.
>
> See, between blacklisting unregistered numbers used on the networks and
> 'counterfeit' devices, which one is more urgent? Counterfeit devices use
> SIM cards, but it's the SIM cards that can be registered to citizens and be
> traced. Why not just ask the MNOs to effect the regulation barring
> unregistered SIM cards and let Kenyans be? Counterfeits come in through the
> borders (Port, Airports) where KRA and Police are complicit in 'eating' an
> letting them pass!
>
> Another thing, CA should have notified Kenyans that this was in the works,
> and should have been transparent enough to publish its capabilities. It did
> not. So, the force with which the DG is going about this only reeks of an
> (quiet) executive order that he and his board can't brush off, especially
> when it's tagged with 'national security' label.
>
> This device will be used to spy on people, block their devices, block
> mobile communications the way M7 and others did. Let's sit and watch, but I
> still hope Omtatah and the Judiciary will save Kenyans.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
> "Oh, the cruft."
>
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