Gauteng to open criminal case against student who reported a security flaw in its R269-million app

[Newsfeed]

Gauteng to open criminal case against student who reported a security flaw in its R269-million app

Gauteng intends to open a criminal case against the researcher who alerted the Department of e-Government about a vulnerability he found on the e-Panic Button app that was exposing user information.

 

[Nobody Important]

Gauteng to open criminal case against student who reported a security flaw in its R269-million app

Gauteng intends to open a criminal case against the researcher who alerted the Department of e-Government about a vulnerability he found on the e-Panic Button app that was exposing user information.

Yet more evidence of a culture of shooting the messenger.

"No good deed goes unpunished!"

 

[Fuzzbox]

Got to protect the GRAVY.

 

[Flanders]

The Gauteng Department of e-Government said it intended to lodge a criminal complaint against third-year university student and cybersecurity researcher Joel Cedras.

Bonginkosi Dhlamini, MEC for e-Government told MyBroadband that it was standard practice to open a case with the police where a breach is recorded.

mmmreally? We'll just have that hang over your head for a little while, shall we?

 

[xera]

I would love to see a breakdown of why this app cost so much.

 

[Gordon_R]

Yet more evidence of a culture of shooting the messenger.

"No good deed goes unpunished!"

It's also Orwellian. You aren't allowed to suggest any imperfections in the system:

"thoughtcrime"—any personal or political thought that challenges the authority of the Party

 

[Adenoid Hynkel]

I would love to see a breakdown of why this app cost so much.

PAIA form 2 will get you that info.

 

[biena]

“It carries highly sensitive information, including residents’ names, contact details, locations, movement histories and crime reports.”

Explain to me why movement history is kept, how long is this history kept ?

 

[Sinbad]

I would love to see a breakdown of why this app cost so much.

300 bajillion Claude tokens

 

[xera]

300 bajillion Claude tokens

Can't imagine it costing more than a few $ in Claude tokens.

 

[The_MAC]

I wonder how POPIA compliant the entire App and its architecture really is

 

[Adenoid Hynkel]

The annual return history of the company awarded the tender is interesting, to say the least. Their website also claims over 10 years in business, yet CIPC records show the company was only registered in 2018.

 

[wingnut771]

Can he lay his own charges in his court case against the people who spent R269 million?

 

[Hemi300c]

In true anc style.

 

[netstrider]

Anywhere else and you get a reward if not hired. Not with this government.

 

[ThinkCentre]

Could it be that this app was developed using freeware which cost its "designer" R269m? I'm just asking on behalf of a friend!

 

[MrGray]

I’m having deja vu. Didn’t something very similar happen with the CoJ (?) about 10 yrs ago? Someone reported on this forum that you could get personally identifiable data by just changing the URL parameters on one of their sites and instead of fixing the problem their response was to try and prosecute the person for hacking.

 

[Jefferson D'Arcy]

The rank stupidity is just overwhelming at this point.

 

[JerryMungo]

The worst kind of corruption.
If a judge upholds these charges, they are bought and paid for.

Right here is why our data ends up on the dark web.

 

[HumanShield]

to paraphrase the series Chernobyl, you humiliated a regime that is obsessed with not being humiliated.
I guess standard practice for communists.