DA allegedly “hacks” municipality security system

Are they saying that they didn't have access and had to get a company to hack it?
 
I wouldn't be surprised if they hired someone to hack it because the people in charge previously didn't want to give them the information / means to get in.
 
Why would one pay a company that mostly seems to do civil engineering to "hack" into a server?

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Sl8er said:
I wouldn't be surprised if they hired someone to hack it because the people in charge previously didn't want to give them the information / means to get in.
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That for me is the unanswered question. Seems like afrisec were ordered to hand over stuff but it's not answered as to whether they actually did or not
 
haha did they think by not handing over the login details nobody will get in. not a very good login retrieval attempt if the entire system collapsed, dont know how true this is though... odd
 
Wait, so the previous municipality had a unfinished, unimplemented system that no-one could use and the new government tried to either take it over and have it working under a different contractor, and this is called "hacking"? Lol
 
Kosmik said:
Wait, so the previous municipality had a unfinished, unimplemented system that no-one could use and the new government tried to either take it over and have it working under a different contractor, and this is called "hacking"? Lol
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I wouldn't be surprised if one of the cadres overheard something like "Oh heck this system is useless" and thought "the DA is hacking the system".
 
Kosmik said:
Wait, so the previous municipality had a unfinished, unimplemented system that no-one could use and the new government tried to either take it over and have it working under a different contractor, and this is called "hacking"? Lol
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No
 
supersunbird said:
So the project died cause the then ANC-run metro didn't pay for it and thus it belongs to the provider still?
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According to the article MickeyD posted above:
The company that used to run the CCTV system on behalf of the municipality, Afrisec Strategic Solutions, is embroiled in a legal dispute with the municipality over R92.4-million the city believes the company should not have been paid.
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