Thanks for the Youtube link, Larry. Screenshots make a difference to the story. Personally, I think a simple tweet has been blown out of proportion. Erick On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Larry Madowo <larrymads@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey guys,
Am back on the list because I've gathered that a number of my tweets from yesterday were taken out of context even getting my friend PS Ndemo to comment on the original misinformation.
I believe this is the tweet that started it: http://twitter.com/#!/LarryMadowo/status/22902836576657408<http://twitter.com/#%21/LarryMadowo/status/22902836576657408>. A short while later, I followed it up with this: http://twitter.com/#!/LarryMadowo/status/22924904814870528<http://twitter.com/#%21/LarryMadowo/status/22924904814870528> .
If you read the 2 tweets together (or even individually) you can obviously see that I was trying to speak to a hacker or some other online security pro and I couldn't find any on Twitter. I didn't post it on Skunkworks because I am no longer on the list for different reasons. I put it on my Twitter page because a good number of the 3,600+ people who follow me are techies and have always come through for me in the past.
After the second tweet, I did speak to Kahenya Kamunyu, himself a hacker and techie who saw the second tweet and got in touch. The story aired from 1pm on NTV News and is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ayxaRMAsn4
Any casual reading of my tweet clearly indicates that I believed that Kenya indeed has internet security experts. Only that none was available in town and willing to talk to me at that point. I have a lot of respect for Kenyan techies, and there are few Kenyan journalists who cover technology with as much passion and dedication as I do.
I hope that this clears things up nicely. In future, I would appreciate that anybody on this list who has something to say about my tweets (or on-air content for that matter) directly emails me for a response.
Good evening everybody
LARRY lmadowo@ke.nationmedia.com
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:04 PM, David Mugo <raidarmax@gmail.com> wrote:
Guys,
I think Larry is back on the list... we should let him explain, although I think it was barely a mistranslation of his statement.
David.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Erick NNN <erickarn@gmail.com> wrote:
I gather from this tweet that the interview has already aired?
http://twitter.com/LarryMadowo/status/23096360597192704
@iFortknox <http://twitter.com/iFortknox> thanks 4 watching. He's a hacker w/ experience in such things. His role was 2 explain it to the rest of Kenyans w/o tech knowhow
Any chance of an online video? Erick
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Victor Ngeny <victormaritim@gmail.com>wrote:
Okech,
True, the main fault is taking twitter to be the 'end all' in online communication, usually you find people ignoring other forums, lists and networks and focusing only on twitter. Sometimes it works sometimes it does not.
V
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:41 PM, ty <tyruskam@gmail.com> wrote:
Okech,
I consign.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
The reason I put this up here is that when you wake up and say on twitter (or any social media for that matter) that I cannot get a security expert to talk to in town, you simply telling the world that there exists no security expert in town and more so in the country - Am no security expert but I can personally tell him a thing or two about security, so insinuating that there is none, yet a forum like this hosts thousands is right there next to an abuse of the profession.
./Ok3ch
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