<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Friends</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent;"><span>This issue reminds me of a term popularized by President George Bush (Snr) - <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">boondoggle</span> - when attacking opponents fighting for "pork" for their constituents, ... thinking about the next election. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color:
transparent;"><span>The Jubilee administration started with a lot of goodwill from <span style="font-style: italic;">wananchi </span>but it seems that almost every deal follows the same script: announce it! affirm its value! get on with it! damn the processes! damn the "noise"! And even when things come a cropper, move on with business as usual and let no one take the fall/be accountable. No wonder that the moribund opposition has found fertile ground for agitation.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>The need for intelligence gathering, analysis, etc in support of security is well understood! The issues are in the execution: what are the strategic objectives of this exercise and
how does it serve the national interest? What are the options? What about the risks (yes, including handing your security to a foreign-controlled element, ...)? How much due diligence has been done in assessing the options? For instance: in a country with such vast/rough terrain, with open/porous borders manned by corrupt security officers, .... are security cameras the best investment we can make in dealing with security? </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">Another question: are we optimizing intelligence collection, analysis and actions thereof? (From the outside look of things, the answer is NO!)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';
font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">And everyone is now ventilating in open media, showing discord even in government (oh! AG was not in the picture ...) ===>> music to terrorists and enemies of this nation! </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Just hope that this is not another Anglo Leasing in the making.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></div><div
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1.25in;}div.Section1 {}--></style><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke" <kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> mnyanchama@aganoconsulting.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, June 7, 2014 6:44 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> kictanet Digest, Vol 85, Issue 13<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Send kictanet mailing list submissions to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via
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Waithaka)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 18:34:15 +0300<br>From: Ngigi Waithaka <<a ymailto="mailto:ngigi@at.co.ke" href="mailto:ngigi@at.co.ke">ngigi@at.co.ke</a>><br>To: "S.M. Muraya" <<a ymailto="mailto:murigi.muraya@gmail.com" href="mailto:murigi.muraya@gmail.com">murigi.muraya@gmail.com</a>>, KICTAnet ICT Policy<br> Discussions <<a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vodafone admits that some governments have a<br> direct link to their network for snooping<br>Message-ID:<br> <CAMzLdAME6avL6txGwo1oR_=c6P9AS8j_g0K4iXVHxcMWu9W+<a ymailto="mailto:xQ@mail.gmail.com" href="mailto:xQ@mail.gmail.com">xQ@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="utf-8"<br><br>Muraya,<br><br>Ksh 15B is actually enough to start an industry. Say Ksh 1B out of it was<br>allocated to build the best Apps for collecting & analyzing intelligence,<br>that would be the start in making .KE another Israel...<br><br>The problem with all these deals is I guess when we put the same people to<br>lead expecting different results...<br><br><br>On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 6:25 PM, S.M. Muraya via kictanet <<br><a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br>> The CIA is primarily into "offshore" snooping/espionage and unlikely to<br>> make public announcements .<br>><br>> It is the FBI who are more likely to openly query civilians or announce<br>> their activities (onshore) in the USA<br>><br>> <a href="http://mashable.com/2013/09/11/fbi-microsoft-bitlocker-backdoor/"
target="_blank">http://mashable.com/2013/09/11/fbi-microsoft-bitlocker-backdoor/</a><br>><br>> Safaricom is better than Anglo Leasing traitors building up "hospitality"<br>> abroad without building up Kenyan initiative + intelligence.<br>><br>> Safaricom will not deliver the local initiative we need (as bureaucrats<br>> look down on SMEs) but is better than nothing to begin with..<br>><br>> It was not a Phd but a smart college dropout on a CIA project which caused<br>> Oracle (the Database Company) to come into being.<br>><br>><br>> <a href="http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/649/The-Billionaire-Dropout-The-Early-Years-of-Larry-Ellison.html" target="_blank">http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/649/The-Billionaire-Dropout-The-Early-Years-of-Larry-Ellison.html</a><br>><br>> The rest, as they say is history :)<br>><br>> Regards<br>><br>> Murigi / Stanley
Muraya<br>><br>> *"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one<br>> who takes a city." Prov 16:32*<br>><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>