Dear Mr Pemandu Director, sir, are you on crack or somethin'? On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Boh Yap <bhy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/ > -- 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/
