sorry, I wrote this some time back, but it got stuck in my outbox, or rather drafts... but the arguments are still valid.
BTW, in yesterdays TheStar, Idris Jala head of PEMANDU came out with a full 2-page 'expalnation' for the 1Malaysia email... more updates on triCubes.... http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/4/22/business/8530788&sec=business There are comments made by Pemandu Director: Dr Fadhlullah Suhaimi Abdul Malek which is 'interesting' and deserve some comments... <quote> For example, the Road Transport Department sends out (via snail mail) about two million summonses and notifications yearly that cost them about RM1 just to send out and another RM1 if the receiver replied. Tricubes offers 50 sen for the transaction. Just imagine how much of taxpayers' money we can save. But the agencies have the right to decline the services offered,” </quote> ...50c that's a healthy profit considering the cost of pushing bits down the wire is next to nothing... comparing to transporting pieces of paper. Obviously the party that loses out will be Pos Malaysia (PM). But then again, if the costs/revenue goes to PM, since its tax-payers money, it stays within the gov. and goes to pay salaries for civil servants etc... With Tricubes, it goes into private sector pockets... why should my tax dollars do that? Is Tricubes gonna grow the industry? Well this deal certainly saved their butt with the Stock Exchange! <quote> Tricubes is the only company that is publicly listed and our evaluation team has a set of criteria based on techonology, know- how and past performance,” he said. </quote> Hmm, technology? Tricubes from what I can gather has little knowhow on managing large servers and services. Their core business is on mobile terminals (with smart card readers etc...), and they have a USB device that reads fingerprints, ... So maybe that's why they 'outsource' to MS Hotmail.... As Marcus, from InternetNow mentioned, they have a made in Malaysia Mail Server, that can compete against the likes of MS Xchange, but they were not called to tender?! So to say Technology was a criteria for the decision by PEMANDU is definitely a bit of a stretch... from my perspective, or for the average person on this list. <quote> The main difference is that your identity data is authenticated by the (NRD)National Registration Department that will give accurate information on the email. This is actually good for advertisers that usually rely on gender and age group to promote specific products,” he said, adding that personal data of the users, as usual, would be protected by Personal Data Protection Act. </quote> If this is the case, does it mean that other service providers can also use NRD to provide authentification service? As NRD is a gov. agency, it should provide equal services to all parties, no? Off course subject to the regulations etc... And if NRD is not providing this as a service, perhaps they should! The second para is a bit worrying... does it mean that Tricubes will use or resell our NRD data! Are we gonna get spam from TriCubes? There was also a few issues raised in earlier posts which are very relevant: Colin Charles mentioned..., yes there is a need for a national Digital ID service (but Tricubes in all their announcements never positioned themselves this way), ie: a Malaysian OpenID service and the like. This will prevent fraud, provide authentification ad authorisation for eGov and other online services, a boon to eCommerce etc... BUT there is no mention that Tricubes is doing this. If there is to be a National Digital ID service, then the obvious party to do this would be the National Registration Department, after all they are the ones that issue our NRIC cards! And if anyone were to do this, there is no need to spend 10's millions to develop new technology, the OpenID foundation provides the protocol standards and libraries to do this... just build on them. And they are keen to work with governments. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 1:02 AM, E A Faisal <eafai...@gmail.com> wrote: > My concern is the phrase "secure communication with the government". The MX > record clearly shows it points to the data center in the US. From national > security standpoint, this is very so insecure. > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah > <rajaiskand...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> yes, i believe the article has highlighted a very important opportunity >> moving forward - the implementation of cyber id authentication for malaysia. >> >> imagine the potential - register once and use the id to access all the >> participating govt agencies (no need to register). >> >> example : dbkl / tnb / ptptn send me my bill / statement through the >> email. in the statement there is a button Bayar, and when i click on it, my >> browser displays the login page for the agency, i login with myemail.my id >> and password, then can pay for the bill. >> >> that will save me and the agencies a whole lot of hassle just to maintain >> usernames / accounts / passwords for the hundreds of agencies. now we will >> have a platform to implement 'single sign-on' >> >> we had myeg, rileks which acted as single portal to govt agencies - but >> this worked on a centralised portal concept. with a single sign-on, we can >> have a distributed concept. >> >> so now the opportunity are for >> >> web developers among us, to figure out how to make our portals / web apps >> to work with this myemail id. >> os developers among us, to figure out how to make windows live id to work >> on non-windows client machines >> >> see example for drupal : http://drupal.org/project/winliveid >> >> this single sign-on would be great for one of my past clients, where we >> had to request guests to register, then someone in the agency to check that >> the information is valid before approving the registration, then we also had >> to have features like recalling lost password / etc. >> >> with myemail.my, we could just ask them to logon using their current id, >> and we could have that automatically authenticated. no need to re-register >> and try to remember the password for so many websites. >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from and detail about this group >> http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information >> >> MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/ > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/ > -- #------- regds, Boh Heong, Yap -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/
