[AfrICANN-discuss] The world is moving gradually towards cyber war

[Seun Ojedeji]

Hi Poncelet,

Good to read from you on this list. I very much agree with your views.
Another unrelated issue is the rate of involvement of China in Africa
lately, and fortunately/unfortunately Africa government are playing
along...getting loans, striking deals that are not economically beneficial
to her citizens.

Cheers!
On Oct 22, 2012 11:16 PM, "Poncelet Ileleji" <pileleji at ymca.gm> wrote:

> Hello Colleagues,
>
> I think it will be very naive to think there is nothing to attack in
> Africa with the numerous e governmental portals coming up and also as a lot
> of governmental data centre are been developed, these are systems that can
> be attacked.
>
> The fact remains their is still a scramble  for resources in our
> continent, the recent crisis between South Sudan and Sudan says a lot.  The
> role of China as an emerging force technologically is their for all to see,
> 'How the ICANN community engages China come the 46th ICANN Meeting next
> year will be  interesting as China with Heuwei is playing a key role within
> Africa network communication Infrastructure  today.
>
> Am not been paranoid but but Africa can be prone to attack it can be
> economic sabotage or multi nationals playing at each other etc, the
> billions Angola are going to pump on the electricity sector means
> technically  a lot of this new grid  will managed through computer
> networks, If Dos Santos achieves his aim that grid he plans to set up for
> all Angolans to have electricity will rely a lot on Computer systems
> infrastructure that need to be rigid and secured, but we can be prone, the
> sooner we realise our systems need better protection our cyber laws and
> initiatives need to conform with International standards like the
> initiatives taken by Mauritius the better for us all.
>
> My 0.00001% contribution to this interesting topic.
>
> Peace
>
> Poncelet
> '
>
>
> On 22 October 2012 18:33, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el at lisse.na> wrote:
>
>> What is there to attack in Africa?
>>
>> el
>>
>> On 2012-10-22 17:49 , Claude Essomba wrote:
>> > Thanks Pierre ,
>> >
>> > I really welcome this posted article.  The question that I am
>> > asking regarding Africa is as follow : Are we ready to face such
>> > attacks ?  Maybe we should like the US , Europe and other to
>> > Simulate such attacks at the gov level to understand what could be
>> > the impact.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > *CLAUDE VINCENT DE PAUL ESSOMBA*
>>
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