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Friday, 15 March 2019 09:54
One tweet about outage – Facebook shows its contempt for users
By Sam Varghese
It is a measure of the contempt with which social media behemoth Facebook regards its users, that after an outage which spread well beyond a…
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Open Sauce
It has often been said that on the Internet content is king. The current batch of parasitic social media monopolists discovered this long ago and,…
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Beerfiles
Thursday, 14 March 2019 11:07
Tech industry must make encryption law repeal an election issue
By Sam Varghese
If the technology industry in Australia is serious about the concerns it has expressed over the encryption law that was passed in December last year,…
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Open Sauce
Does anyone remember the days when the Web was a place for the free and open exchange of ideas before the days of demonetisation, deplatforming…
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Beerfiles
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The US, which touts itself as the land of the free, should hang its head in shame over the refusal to renew a tourist visa…
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Open Sauce
Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies is unlikely to win the case it has filed against the US Government, given that the latter generally wraps…
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Friday, 08 March 2019 08:44
Stamos pokes fun at Facebook chief's privacy vision. Or did he?
By Sam Varghese
Wittingly or unwittingly, Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer of Facebook, appears to have poked fun at his former employer, Mark Zuckerberg, after the…
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Open Sauce
Malcolm Turnbull is talking about technology again. Yes, that same Turnbull who gave us the multi-technology mix — or Malcolm-technology mix, take your pick —…
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One year since the Australian Government put in place a data breach notification law, the only visible change is that the workload of the Office…
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Friday, 22 February 2019 08:51
YouTube nasties one more reason for ACCC to crack down on Google
By Sam Varghese
Google has provided the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission another good reason to investigate the algorithms it uses for its ad network after its YouTube…
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Recent Comments
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Re: iTWire - ASD may get domestic role in child sexual abuse cases
I worked for ASD. They should NEVER be allowed to be let loose on Australians.
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Re: iTWire - Private 5G predicted to ‘take off’ in Australia in 2020
Because hardwired connections to drones, trucks, cars, phones, smart watches, etc don't make sense, that's why.
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Re: iTWire - Private 5G predicted to ‘take off’ in Australia in 2020
economic espionage. This spyware crap is exploitable by design. Fools. Why not just connect to the fibre backhaul ? Nobody[…]
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Re: iTWire - Australia reverts to playing deputy sheriff role for US
Beyond political reasons, I'd go so far as to assert the anti-Huawei 'espionage' rhetoric and the accompanying red-baiting being cheerled[…]
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Re: iTWire - Australia reverts to playing deputy sheriff role for US
The USA only banned Huawei for political reasons and for protecting the telco industry in the USA because they're far[…]