<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000" face="Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(253,254,255)">Kenya's <u><b>future</b></u> Data Protection act should require <b><u>Kenyan</u></b> IT authorities to vet/investigate foreign software/services..</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(253,254,255)">Our laws including the constitution mention "the national interest".  </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="line-height:13px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><font face="Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/kaspersky-lab-russian-hacking-us-government-national-security-faq">https://www.cnet.com/news/kaspersky-lab-russian-hacking-us-government-national-security-faq</a></font></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Proxima-Nova,proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Proxima-Nova,proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Yep, there's more. The Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 5 that </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-stole-nsa-data-on-u-s-cyber-defense-1507222108" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Proxima-Nova,proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none">Russians had used Kaspersky's software to steal NSA secrets</a><span style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Proxima-Nova,proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> from a staffer's home laptop. In 2015, the antivirus scanner picked up the NSA's hacking tools, which landed in the Kremlin's hands, according to the report.</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Proxima-Nova,proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Proxima-Nova,proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">And then on Oct. 10, The New York Times reported that </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Proxima-Nova,proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none">Israeli intelligence caught Russian hackers looking for secret files</a><span style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Proxima-Nova,proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> in real time using Kaspersky Lab's antivirus software. The software had become an advanced search engine for Russian hackers to steal data, the Times reported.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.cyberscoop.com/kaspersky-fbi-cia-fsb-demarche-2015/" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Proxima-Nova,proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none">CyberScoop also reported on the same day</a><span style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Proxima-Nova,proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> that Kaspersky Lab and the US government had a tense confrontation in 2015 after the security company boasted to FBI agents during a sales pitch that the software could be used as a tool for spying on terrorists.</span></font></div><div><font size="2" color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Proxima-Nova,proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2" color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Proxima-Nova,proxima-nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Read more... </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,254,255);text-align:justify"><a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/kaspersky-lab-russian-hacking-us-government-national-security-faq">https://www.cnet.com/news/kaspersky-lab-russian-hacking-us-government-national-security-faq</a></span></div><div><span style="line-height:13px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><font face="Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div>
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