Uganda

Uganda is a landlocked country across the equator in Eastern Africa bordering Lake Victoria in south east. It is bodered by South Sudan in north, Democratic Republic of the Congo in west, Kenya in east, and by Rwanda and Tanzania in south.

The country occupies an area of 241,551 km², compared Uganda is slightly smaller than the UK or slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Oregon.
Uganda has a population of 34.8 million people, making it the world's second most populous landlocked country after Ethiopia. Largest city and capital is Kampala. Spoken languages are English (official), Luganda (a major language of Uganda), Swahili, and other native languages.

History of the Internet

Anonymous Attacks

Way to Attack

Anonymous Statement

Legal actions against Anonymous

Cybersecurity law and Regulations

The first high speed commercial internet service in Uganda (and Africa) was constructed by international satellite internet backbone provider NSN Network Services and it’s Ugandan ISP client, Infomail Uganda Ltd. This service was switched online on the morning of August 5, 1995.

Infomail was linked by satellite from Kampala to NSN’s United States east-coast satellite gateway in New Jersey and from there, linked by a leased terrestrial connection to NSN’s peering routers, which were co-located and directly fiber connected to the gigaring at MAE-WEST, which was at the time located at NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory in California. In 2018 Uganda had 18.149 million Internet users.

in 2012, Anonymous attcaked Uganda’s Government websites. The hacksters asserted that their actions were to protest the Ugandan Government persecution of the LGBTI community of Uganda where being gay is considered criminal and where legislation is pending Uganda’s parliament that would impose harsh prison penalties on gay people, including the death sentence for so called “aggravated homosexuality.”

Anonymous utilized Distributied-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) to conduct their attacks.

after their attacks Anonymous said "No member in our office, network, or in the Ugandan LGBTI community was consulted or involved in this action by “Anonymous” in any way. The hacking of government websites and the corresponding statements by Anonymous do not reflect the views of SMUG and its partners, allies and/or friends. As Ugandans ourselves, we stand with our community and equally share in the burden of this illegal and counterproductive action"

No Legal action has been taken

Government of Uganda passed three critical laws, namely (i) Computer Misuse Act, 2011; (2) Electronic Transactions Act, 2011; and (3) Electronic Signatures Act, 2011.
-According to computer misuse act‟s long tittle (preamble), "it provides for the safety of electronic transactions and information systems; to prevent unlawful access, abuse or misuse of information systems including computers and to make provision for securing the conduct of electronic transactions in a trustworthy electronic environment and to provide for other related matters.”