Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Hackers or incompetency?

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

The South African Competition Commission has laid criminal charges against “unknown” “hackers” who – allegedly – hacked a censored version of their final report into bank charges in South Africa. Parts of the document containing sensitive information was blacked out. According to Wikileaks, technical methods was used to decrypt and remove redactions from almost all [...]

Crossing the digital divide

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Artist: !no!no!mous Photographer: Marius Loots Camera: Nokia 3110

Living next door to Alice

Monday, June 30th, 2008

In the old days, you lived for 24 years next to Alice, banging on the ceiling, walls, floors and pipes. Now there is facebook…

Permanence of digital data

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Ensuring the permanence of digital data consists of four steps, namely backup, refresh, migrate and document. A strict routine of backup, refresh, migrate and document will ensure that important data will remain viable and can be used effectively when and where it is needed. What follows is a very simplistic view of ensuring permanence of [...]

w.bloggar

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

I have just downloaded w.bloggar and will see how it works to expediate the process of posting material on this website. This is the first attempt. I have used ScribeFire before, and that worked ok with one or two small irritations. The biggest advantage of ScribeFire is that, once I was authenticated by our firewall [...]



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