Following my security audit of the COVID Alert SA app with the White Noise Podcast, I was invited by Joe Emilio to talk to him about the need for a…
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The sins of the bather
You can say a lot of different things about our neighbours. They are loud, inconsiderate, arrogant and underhanded but dirty is not one of them. The fact that they run…
Sonde met die Bure
Van ons bure kan jy baie dinge sê – hulle is luidrigtig, onkonsidererend, voor op die wa en onderduims maar vuil is hulle verseker nie. Die feit dat die bad…
COVID-19 Alert App – Security Audit and Review
President Cyril Ramaphosa asked South Africans to download the government’s COVID-19 alert app during his latest address on 17 September 2020. His appeal has been met with a lot of…
Digital burnout – staying sane and keeping connected at the same time
Digital burnout is a mental and emotional state that can overwhelm and cripple even the most well-adjusted humans. Working in the technology space, I’ve often felt the effects of spending…
The World Is Your Oyster – China’s Insatiable Seafood Appetite
Seafood is a global industry that provides food to at least 3 billion and employs nearly 60 million people worldwide. Unfortunately, this all hangs in the balance as around 90…
PASA responds to ongoing rogue debit order scams
In the wake of our most recent article on rogue debit orders, How To Steal A Hundred Billion Rand, PASA (Payments Association of South Africa) has responded with a press…
The Transformation of SA’s Covid-19 Curve
The Transformation of SA’s Covid-19 Curve Does this curve look flattened to you? Let’s break this down, shall we? Initially there had been a slow, gradual increase in cases. On…
How To Steal A Hundred Billion Rand
Warning. This headline is incendiary and overstated by 4% for a nice round number. It is, hopefully, at the upper limit of likelihood. The R99 debit order scams haven’t been…
In conversation with Gideon Joubert of Paratus about Bitcoin
Gideon Joubert is a commercial airline pilot, he’s dabbled in politics and is the founder of a civil firearms rights group Paratus. He’s recently gone from being a nocoiner…