On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Hanxue Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > "Najib disclosed today the email account will allow direct and secure > communication between the public and the government, and is part of a new > one-stop web portal for government services."
> To give the benefit of doubt, perhaps its an initiative to have a one-stop > solution for Malaysian citizens to interact with its government, similar to > Singapore's e-Citizen http://www.ecitizen.gov.sg/ ? If we look here - http://myemail.my/what-is-myemail.aspx, it targeted more like an email service, just like what gmail or hotmail provided. This is where the problem lies I think. Assuming it being used as real email, if someone in gov agency want to email some official document to [email protected] which they assume a secure channel, that email surely would travel over public internet and without any encryption being applied to that email, how can it be deemed as secure ? Unless there's guarantee that any email sent from any gov agency only travel over a secure government network but I doubt such a thing exists. So this email service just giving people false sense of security - it's from government so it must be secure. The singapore ecitizen I guess more like a web application such as eFiling where everything stay within that secure server (hopefully) and transmission only between us the users and the application through ssl. -- 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/
