<div dir="ltr">But surely we are past the mentality of "that's how it has always been done".<div><br></div><div>Given that the bid bond is 500,000, and a bid bond is usually a fraction of the budget, how much money are we spending airlifting speeches where a simple PDF attachment to email will suffice? Especially given we are complaining about runaway government spending?</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:52 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">
Worse still if the US can listen to our Presidents conversation (good to know we are the league of German Prime Minister :-), what is it we are trying to hide in a presidential speech that would be public knowledge before the end of the day :-)<br>
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This question came up in a previous ConnectedKenya summit in Mombasa but was never convincingly answered. But I think the answer is simple. There has been a budget to airlift the presidents speech since independence. What has been changing is not the technology, but who gets (eats?) that budget :-)<br>
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walu.<br>
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There are plenty of<br>
techniques and tools to cryptographically sign and send<br>
documents.<br>
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Is there a secure way to email<br>
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