<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I’ll very selfishly advocate for an increased uptake of local cloud services, away from the NSA’s prying eyes, with locally established standards of encryption etc… </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">We’ve got capable universities that can assist in coming up with new encryption etc standards for the military & government. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Interesting article by Charles Obbo…. http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Spy-more-on-your-friends-than-foes/-/440808/2053660/-/j8oy4g/-/index.html</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div> <div id="bloop_sign_1383201503694569216"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"></span>-- <br>Phares Kariuki<br></div> <div style="color:gray"><hr style="style:linear">From: <span style="color:black">Ngigi Waithaka</span> <a href="mailto:ngigi@at.co.ke">Ngigi Waithaka</a><br>Reply: <span style="color:black">Ngigi Waithaka</span> <a href="mailto:ngigi@at.co.ke">ngigi@at.co.ke</a><br>Date: <span style="color:black">October 31, 2013 at 9:12:10 AM</span><br>To: <span style="color:black">Phares Kariuki</span> <a href="mailto:pkariuki@gmail.com">pkariuki@gmail.com</a><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> [kictanet] NSA Tapping into Google & Yahoo Networks? How is Kenya protected? <br></span></div> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div>
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<div>Just came across this <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html?hpid=z1">http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html?hpid=z1</a></div>
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<div>It looks like Google might have been caught by the NSA with
their pants down since hacking into their Data Transport layer
simply gives up all the secrets that encryption is supposed to be
protecting.</div>
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<div>Now, moving on swiftly to the local setup, I am also concerned
that even as we look to start pushing for National Standards of
Encryption through the PKI project, whether we as a country have
come together to review and see how to protect our countries
intelligence and data.</div>
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<div>We also know for a fact that the US was busy tapping into
World Leaders phones, and I can bet if there are a few presidents
to be 'tapped' in Africa, ours should be way up on that
ladder!</div>
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<div>However, more worrying would be, how protected are our
internal networks from such tapping, even from locals? Could there
be a guy who has tapped into Safaricoms internal network and is
busy reading every email, chat that is flying through and perhaps
selling such information to our erstwhile enemies the
Al-Shabbab?</div>
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<div>I was once very surprised when a personal friend got a
transcript of all his calls, and chat messages, word-for-word for
the previous past 6 months, dug up from one of the local Telcos.
The ease with which such information was availed appalled me as it
clearly means that the Telcos clearly store all our chats, and such
records in clear text months after we have used them and a guy with
basic SQL knowledge just needs to hack into the network (easy) and
call them up.<br clear="all">
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<div>So, as we continue with the PKI project, there are really very
basic things on security of data that we as a nation haven't even
dealt with.</div>
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