On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:07 AM, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000@yahoo.com>wrote:
I believe that the ICT bill makes it illegal for someone to reveal security holes in IT systems. However doesn't investigative journalism stories like the recent " The Rogue Tracker" reveal 'security holes'? So what makes that legal? If one was to discover a security hole in a system, then one can do their own investigative journalism then reveal everything about the security hole. I believe the tracking system is an IT system. And it seems a security hole was revealed. It's like saying half of the companies that claim to have installed a particular firewall might not really have the firewall installed.
Wesley, You are trying to impose this analogy where it doesn't quite belong:-) In the case of the tracking system, there was no security hole per se, but a case of fraud. The tracking device was NOT installed. The case ends there. Trying to see that as a "firewall that wasn't installed" is quite off tangent, imho. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain