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    Student finds flaw in an Internet-facing system of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme

    Apart from what happened to the funds, who developed this system. The reason is whatever other systems they also developed, may have the same vulnerabilities.
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    End of an era for EskomSePush

    I use ESP daily for any local outages and announcements, seeing I got shadow-banned off the community Telegram channel, and I refuse to use WhatsApp. So ESP is actually very useful for super localised notices and chats. Seeing no community member manages it (like our Telegram channel) there is...
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    Illegal walkie-talkies proliferate in SA

    The challenge is all the courses, exams, the HF practical, and the invigilating, etc are done by unpaid volunteers. ICASA has "outsourced" that side of things to SARL. So there is really no funding for an online centralised system to handle it, and no funding from government. Only SARL's admin...
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    Illegal walkie-talkies proliferate in SA

    The Baofeng UV-5R is very clearly NOT a walkie-talkie. It is a ham radio in its own right, with much higher output than a license-free walkie-talkie.
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    Proposal for per-kilometre tax to replace fuel levies in South Africa

    We already pay tax by weight - annual vehicle licenses are determined by weight.
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    Suspended Inspector-General of Intelligence argues for WhatsApp legal intercept in South Africa

    Luckily I cancelled my WhatsApp account years ago, but how is he then going to tackle Threema, Signal, Briar, SimpleX, Quiet, Jami, and many others which are completely Peer-to-Peer communications. The tree does not only contain a single apple.
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    Mashtastic in SA discussion

    Cape Town now has a node up on the Du Toit's Kloof mountain. It is reaching sites back in Cape Town and the hope is it may also link up nodes in Worcester. There is already one also on Table Mountain reaching up towards Saldanha, and it looks like the next high site may be by Picketberg.
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    Mashtastic in SA discussion

    I listed some places on my webpage at https://gadgeteer.co.za/hamradio/meshtastic-in-south-africa/?swcfpc=1#htoc-where-can-you-buy-meshtastic-hardware-in-south-africa
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    Vodacom testing my patience! [resolved]

    Interesting, I just found this complaint. I having the same issue with Legal Collections not calling me back. They promised to get back to me within 3 to 7 days. Eight days have now passed. It is also an issue with an outstanding amount after the data SIM account was converted to pre-paid. I got...
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    South Africans dissatisfied with Uber

    So the problem is the lack of proper strict vetting then?
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    POPIA can't save South Africans from phone spammers

    Odd I've seen the same thing - I answer and it just seems to cut off.
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    POPIA can't save South Africans from phone spammers

    It's usually recycled numbers. After we cancelled my mom's cellphone, it was about a year or more later, and suddenly I got a notification in Telegram that she had joined. Obviously, someone else had received her cancelled number. So your number was likely being used by someone else previously too.
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    Clock ticking for the SABC

    This is quite telling: "Not a lot of countries have a public broadcaster". So why exactly to do we need one? It is decades since I last watched anything by SABC. I get my news by online newspapers, social media, Carte Blanche, etc. The SABC itself was born out of a need for propaganda. It may...
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    Bad news for South Africans who pay for electricity

    Ageing power stations? This is nothing new, as Eskom did not start up afresh from 1990 suddenly. This has always being part of the maintenance and replacement cycles for many decades. Everything needs maintenance and scheduled replacement over time. It just highlights how Eskom lost the plot and...
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    TikTok users in the US lose access to app

    I never said it was only one side? I said "political" (versus objective legal, or evidence of security vulnerabilities). This was all done on a mere suspicion, like with Huawei. If it was security/privacy based then Facebook would be banned too (quite a few reports over the last few years about...
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