<html><head></head><body><p dir="auto" style=" text-align: left; margin-top: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white ">Indeed Ahmed. Consider how destructive hacking can be in an IOT situation if someone decides to hack the Cloud Platform hosting hundreds of Heart Pacemakers..</p>
<p dir="auto" style=" text-align: left; margin-top: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white ">This conversation is long overdue. </p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:40 AM +0300, "Ahmed Mohamed Maawy" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ultimateprogramer@gmail.com" target="_blank">ultimateprogramer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I think what is very nice about all this is the big names are stepping up to it. Also importantly, we need to give credit where it is due. This could not have also happened if the issue didn't come up as a result of the consumers of these technologies expressing their frustrations on this issue.<br></div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Listers</div><div><br></div><div>A worthy conversation to have.</div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Technology companies must retain the trust of their customers and must not assist governments with their hacking schemes even though world leaders may request them to do so.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">As an example of how technology companies can work together, he cited how Microsoft was impressed with other big tech companies like</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span><a rel="" href="http://fortune.com/fortune500/alphabet-36/" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);box-sizing:inherit;outline:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Google</a><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span><a href="http://fortune.com/company/goog" class="m_1390865656615331796m_-2567430704346119997m_-8395340683851060291_11XURygs m_1390865656615331796m_-2567430704346119997m_-8395340683851060291_1mXB4jjD" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);box-sizing:inherit;outline:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">(GOOG, -0.39%)</a><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">and Facebook</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span><a href="http://fortune.com/company/fb" class="m_1390865656615331796m_-2567430704346119997m_-8395340683851060291_11XURygs m_1390865656615331796m_-2567430704346119997m_-8395340683851060291_1mXB4jjD" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);box-sizing:inherit;outline:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">(FB, -0.28%)</a><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">in how they notified their users when their accounts may have been</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span><a rel=" noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.wired.com/2015/10/facebook-now-warns-users-of-state-sponsored-attacks/" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);box-sizing:inherit;outline:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">compromised</a><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> in state-sponsored attacks.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Read on:-</span></div><div><br><a href="http://fortune.com/2017/02/14/microsoft-president-digital-geneva-convention/" target="_blank">http://fortune.com/2017/02/14/<wbr>microsoft-president-digital-ge<wbr>neva-convention/</a></div><div><br><br><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><a href="tel:+254%20713%20601113" value="+254713601113" target="_blank">+254 0713 601113</a> </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.c<wbr>om/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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