Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Cyber-Security and E-commerce

2004-10-01 Thread L Sharkovski
Dear GKD Colleagues, I think perhaps some on the GKD list have missed the problem that my compatriot in Macedonia is describing. The point, for us at least, is not that there is rampant cyber-criminality in Macedonia that the government has failed to prevent. The point is that it is just as safe t

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Cyber-Security and E-commerce

2004-10-01 Thread Leo D. Waters
Dear GKD Members, Based on its sheer size and endowed resources, Nigeria is a power house of economic gain for determined investors (locally and internationally). However, economic frauds are rife in the country's system as it seems to have become a culture to conduct business dubiously. Also, the

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Cyber-Security and Human Rights

2004-10-01 Thread Fola Odufuwa
Dear Colleagues, Richard Downing's contributions on the subject of anonymity made very interesting reading. In Nigeria, as in much of Africa, secure, nationally acceptable, authenticated identification for individuals (both for private, business and regulatory purposes) in the real world is highly

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Cyber-Security and E-commerce

2004-10-01 Thread Cornelio Hopmann
Dear Colleagues, (1) Commerce at a distance with shortened transaction-times, was well started about 150 years ago by an invention called the "Telegraph" and the respective world-wide network. (2) May I recall that the very Credit Card (as handsome substitute for the much older Credit Letter) was

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Cyber-Security and E-commerce

2004-10-01 Thread Marta A.Tomovska
Dear GKD Members, This discussion on cyber-security and e-commerce is a very crucial and immediate one for us in Macedonia. I work with Unet, the first ISP in Macedonia, which currently serves more than 15,000 customers with Internet connectivity services, more than 1,000 customers with web desig