<div dir="ltr"><div>Walu<br><br></div>How does local hosting does give local enforcement (police, prosecution, judiciary) some teeth ? <br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">@WhiteAfrican,<br>
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I do get your message. But your language might be considered too strong by @BlackAfrican standard and folks may take offense. Check Ali's post on the same - same message, different words :-)<br>
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That said, I think the King @CCK has been caught "naked". Maybe the planned regulation is to make ALL GOVERNMENT data local (which is within the government/regulatory scope to make the call). Or maybe he was misquoted, or maybe I might be trying to hard to do the PR job for CCK...<br>
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@Wambua, you have off late gone completely underground?<br>
<br>
walu.<br>
nb: the benefit of local hosting within the context of cybersecurity was argued on a 1-on-1 between me and Sammy B and we came to some consensus :- that local hosting does give local enforcement (police, prosecution, judiciary) some teeth...and by extension this in itself can act as deterrent against would-be cybercriminals.<br>
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I however dont think that this should lead to a decree that everyone MUST host locally because then I will have to give up my <a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a> mail account to avoid hosting my mails abroad :-)<br>
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<div class="im">On Wed, 11/27/13, Erik Hersman <<a href="mailto:erik@zungu.com">erik@zungu.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] CCK PUSHES LOCAL FIRMS TO HOST WEBSITES LOCALLY<br>
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Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 4:41 PM<br>
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This is the kind of<br>
stupidity that makes you wonder if the people dealing with<br>
the internet regulations and policy at CCK even know what<br>
the internet is. <br>
<br>
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-- <br>
Erik Hersman<br>
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Ushahidi | iHub | BRCK@WhiteAfrican<br>
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On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Rad!<br>
<<a href="mailto:conradakunga@gmail.com">conradakunga@gmail.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
Absolutely absurd if this is in<br>
fact true.<br>
How does hosting sites locally mitigated against<br>
cybercrime?<br>
<br>
What business does anyone have dictating to me<br>
where i can and can't host my websites?<br>
<br>
<br>
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at<br>
6:35 AM, Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
<br>
Listers<br>
<br>
The Communications<br>
Commission of Kenya has proposed a licensing condition that<br>
may compel Internet service providers (ISPs) to bring<br>
websites hosted offshore back to the country in the fight<br>
against cyber crime...<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/CCK-pushes-firms-to-host-websites-locally-in-new-rules/-/539550/2089412/-/15ly5o1z/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/CCK-pushes-firms-to-host-websites-locally-in-new-rules/-/539550/2089412/-/15ly5o1z/-/index.html</a><br>
<br>
I sincerely hope that the DG was<br>
somehow misquoted on this story. Whilst its a good idea to<br>
host sites locally this in no way stops cybercrime or<br>
mitigates it. Infact with the rudimentary security<br>
infrastructure most providers have I will be loath to host<br>
any site locally leave alone an Ecommerce one<br>
locally.<br>
<br>
Can government please focus on<br>
legislation and regulation instead of butting into my<br>
business and telling me where I should host my website??<br>
<br>
<br>
Ali Hussein<br>
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