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    TENET's mirror service has been decommissioned

    Let's be very clear about this. That people used the service didn't make them a stakeholder in decisions about its future or governance. It made them users of a "free" service that someone else was paying for. Maybe, just maybe, you should check your sense of entitlement? And "they" is only...
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    TENET's mirror service has been decommissioned

    MyBroadband asked TENET for comment about this last week. Since we've not heard back from them, and they don't seem to have done anything with that, here's a verbatim copy of the response I sent: Ultimately, MyBroadband is not a forum TENET uses or wants to use to engage with stakeholders. And...
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    IPv6 capable VPS providers in South Africa

    I just asked six different South African VPS providers if they could give me a server with an IPv6 address. All six said "no", they only do IPv4. Now I'm wondering if I have somehow teleported back to pre-2012... :( I'm sure some of the enterprise, private cloud-type providers can do this. But...
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    Black Friday 2019 Giveaway - Win great prizes

    Hisense 65" 4K ULED - B8000 | 65B8000UW TV
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    New Giveaway – Win an Amazon Tablet and an Echo Dot

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    Test your broadband speed, rate your ISP, win great prizes worth R5,000

    ISP: Atomic Access over Octotel Ping: 4ms Download: 11.54Mbps ** Upload: 5.78Mbps ** pay for 10/5
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    Ask RSAWEB anything about the Cloud - Win great prizes

    A search of RSAWEB's web site for "ipv6" returns five blog posts, the most recent of which dates from 2011. Similarly, a quick check of RIPEstat suggests RSAWEB does not announce any IPv6 address blocks. This leads me to assume that you're not currently making native IPv6 available within your...
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    New giveaway - Enter now and win great prizes

    Battery Capacity: 3100mAh
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    2019 South African IT Salary Survey - Win prizes worth R5,000

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    How Vumacam’s CCTV system works

    The European data protection regulators have found a number of distinctions between the "home user" scenario and commercial ones such as Vumacam. One of the more important ones is that the home user is primarily installing the camera for their personal benefit, and primarily concerned with a...
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    How Vumacam’s CCTV system works

    ... because the attackers were able to predict their movements as a result of the cameras tracking them.
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    How Vumacam’s CCTV system works

    I suspect that is the letter of the law once POPIA comes into force, albeit with SAPS being a placeholder for all law enforcement, including metro police, etc. One compromise might be that they become completely open and transparent about all aspects of what they're doing, including the nature...
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    How Vumacam’s CCTV system works

    There is a massive difference between taking a photograph in public and routine camera surveillance that records personal information. Just as there is a difference between routine safety monitoring in the public interest, and a private company monetising your personal information for profit...
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    How Vumacam’s CCTV system works

    It isn't clear to me how a camera system owned by a private company and run for profit on a public road can ever be "POPI compliant" or what that even means. Let's start by being clear that camera footage is personal information. There's plenty of precedent for this: anything the camera records...
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    Two-day Giveaway - Win great prizes

    The Galaxy S4 took giant leaps in making your life better with tech. You could travel the world easily and without language barriers thanks to S Translate. Gestures, Voice, and Motion Control gave you that futuristic feel that everyone wants from a smartphone. ^ my first Galaxy phone
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