R&D Techlead and Dev Manager / e-Commerce / Java- & JEE specialist / gadgeteer / consumer-, privacy- & security activist
My appeal against Afrihost spam dating back to 2017 is still ongoing. I was never satisfied with the weak ruling, the bias shown by ISPA and the numerous delays until ISPA fined a company valued at that time close to...
A multi-stakeholder research paper, titled “Indlulamithi South Africa Scenarios 2030” was published which goes into three possible scenarios how South Africa’s future might unfold by 2030. The paper covers three national elections (2019, 2024 and 2029) as well as two...
In a recent discussion about unemployment in South Africa ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has called on companies to employ young graduates despite their lack of work experience with the following comments: Employers need to understand that for our country to succeed,...
The recent announcement of Sagarmatha establishing a MSP (Multi Sided Platform) as a “first” in South Africa has drawn a large amount of criticism from people in the know. Novices (such as the Black Consumer Council) slated MSP as a...
Update 26/12/2017: I have posted a detailed guide on how to transfer ETH/BTC from Coinbase into Binance. Although I live in South Africa, I avoid the local exchanges and trading platforms (such as Luno) as you will not just exposed...
It is great to see that the DPCI (Department of Priority Crimes Investigation) and the South African CCU (Commercial Crimes Unit) have started investigating the leak of over 60m South African identities as reported by Troy Hunt and published by a...
Troy Hunt’s haveibeenpwned.com has published information about a leak of over 60m South African records which seem to originate from the Master Deeds office. The database file was residing on a server hosted with a South African hosting provider and...
You might remember when MyBroadband.co.za censored my Afrihost support query after I received a barrage of spam. My ISPA complaint about Afrihost’s unsolicited email- and SMS communications to thousands of Afrihost users who had opted out from receiving marketing communication...
A few weeks after I reported Afrihost and Mybroadband to ISPA for violating ISPA’s code of conduct, I noticed the following on my Twitter timeline: Initially I thought that the unavailable Tweets are a result of Afrihost deleting them. But it...
During my ongoing ISPA complaint against MyBroadband.co.za, I required additional information from MyBroadband.co.za, which I could not retrieve since my access was blocked without notice or warning. Since I wanted to make my ISPA complaint as detailed as possible, and...
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