Māori Cultural Ethics in Infosec

If you are in government, this presentation will satisfy Treaty of Waitangi considerations; if you want to be respectful of Māori culture this presentation is for you; If you are just curious, this is a good presentation to listen to; if you are a commercial company looking to secure Iwi and Māori clientele, this presentation will give you lots of great ideas. The hardest part about speaking about Māori cultural ethics and digital security is not to offer to much information on vulnerabilities that can be used against Māori by unethical security practitioners and in reverse by unethical Māori security people back in the law abiding security community. It is my intention to briefly touch on multiple topics to give you an idea of some of the ethical issues. More so, a number of ethical issues I have witnessed and anticipate will be common in the near future. It is important to state here that just because someone is Māori, it does not mean they were brought up Māori and understand Māori culture and language etc. Some Māori who were brought up Māori chose to simply ignore it and assimilate into modern society. Simple things such as imagery of tattoos, face, the dead and specific landmarks are very sensitive topic as is their storage location and where and how it is accessed. Biometric security, DNA storage, Databases with names, data storage in the cloud are all new areas that have an impact on Māori culture. Specifically targeted cyber attacks on Māori using automated translations or deliberately targeting self identifying Māori is a risk that should be considered and monitored. Laying cables and consideration of where they are could be offensive due to the fact that information goes through them and some places are sacred. Māori names as passphrases and halving Māori names is offensive as could using Māori names for networks and servers or be really ideal names that give your network and servers some cool personified meanings in the Māori language. IOT and the risks and benefits to Māori culture is a wide area of new consideration that has yet to be explored.