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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>While at it, let’s laud ourselves as a country of many “firsts” – this is another feather in the cap, coming up with the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>first ever Great Firewall of Africa - going by the reasons advanced for procuring the Technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Roping in the Internet Service providers to ensure that the ‘Internet Traffic Cop” spies on all traffic in and out of their <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>networks is certainly another “first”,never heard it anywhere else other than outside the continent. Corrections welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Again from a limited perspective, I suppose technical implementation would require a single point of Filter for some <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>several terabyte of traffic flowing in and out of the country, - quite a daunting task if not herculean if you’d ask me, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>leave alone gleaning the same data packets scouting for some obscure hackivist trying to launch an attack, so I <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>definitely look forward to seeing how this works out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Similarly, will this not create another single point of failure for our internet, just days now emerging from one of the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>biggest outages this country has ever witnessed..? Perhaps the firewall may have the High Availability feature in <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>case it’s hardware crashes hopefully..? Just speculating. Probably a more manageable aspect of this that could be <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>technically and economically feasible is to install a packet sniffer to monitor and police Government data gateways <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>as a start. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Who will man this.?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harry<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Grace Githaiga<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 21, 2012 4:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> harry@comtelsys.co.ke<br><b>Cc:</b> ke-internetusers@bdix.net; kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Media Misleading Citizens?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Barrack<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Here is the full story as carried by business daily. It may not be misinformation after all.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"'Times New Roman'","serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>CCK sparks row with fresh bid to spy on Internet users </span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/CCK+sparks+row+with+fresh+bid+to+spy+on+Internet+users+/-/539550/1370218/-/item/1/-/4gnwl5/-/index.html"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/CCK+sparks+row+with+fresh+bid+to+spy+on+Internet+users+/-/539550/1370218/-/item/1/-/4gnwl5/-/index.html</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'> </span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Rgds<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>GG<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>If you have the strength to survive, you have the power to succeed. Life is all about choices we make depending upon the situation we are in. Go forth and rule the World!<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:27:19 +0300<br>> From: otieno.barrack@gmail.com<br>> Subject: [kictanet] Media Misleading Citizens?<br>> CC: ke-internetusers@bdix.net; kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>> To: ggithaiga@hotmail.com<br>> <br>> Listers,<br>> <br>> I just saw this on the wall of a popular media house and i am appalled<br>> by the misinformation, why can't our dear journalists do more research<br>> before publishing info, i see why Prof Nyong'o was so agitated during<br>> the Interview on Citizen TV, this is really dangerous? below is the<br>> text..<br>> <br>> The Communications Commission of Kenya could have access to your<br>> personal internet content by July this year, if a plan they have set<br>> in motion succeeds. The CCK has signed a 32.6 million shilling deal<br>> with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to install a<br>> system that will monitor all incoming and outgoing internet content in<br>> Kenya, and has already requested local internet service providers and<br>> telecommunications institutions to install it.<br>> <br>> Do you think this is right?<br>> <br>> Hope the concerned will react on time.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Barrack O. 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