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Friday, 06 November 2020 09:21
Twitter + Deloitte + hacking equals some very red faces
By Sam Varghese
The social media site Twitter has once again shown it has somewhat twisted priorities by taking down the account of Swiss IT consultant and developer…
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Open Sauce
Wednesday, 04 November 2020 11:53
Tim Watts should stop venting on subjects of which he knows little
By Sam Varghese
One has often lamented the fact that the Australian Labor Party decided to jettison the only politician in its midst who actually knew something about…
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Open Sauce
Friday, 30 October 2020 11:10
Fancy some contact tracing? That'll be $4.12 million a pop
By Sam Varghese
It's beginning to look like the Federal Government should avoid anything to do with technology following the revelation on Thursday that $70 million of taxpayers'…
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Open Sauce
Thursday, 29 October 2020 12:20
Fletcher makes an announcement about a two-day-old announcement
By Sam Varghese
Two days ago, the NBN Co, that august organisation which is building the national broadband network, issued a media statement listing the first areas in…
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Wednesday, 28 October 2020 11:13
US appears to have hit peak paranoia ahead of presidential poll
By Sam Varghese
With the US elections a week away and warnings of Russian, Iranian and other foreign involvement pouring out from every conceivable source, the US appears…
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Open Sauce
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Monday, 26 October 2020 11:28
Sydney Morning Herald shows it knows nothing about encryption
By Sam Varghese
One of Australia's main newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald, believes that technology companies can open "very small" encryption backdoors to enable government agencies to snoop…
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Open Sauce
Thursday, 22 October 2020 10:40
Hint to Brad Smith: getting rid of Windows will halt most cyber attacks
By Sam Varghese
Microsoft president Brad Smith has called for the barrage of cyber attacks on democracies — not other countries which also face the same issue —…
Published in
Open Sauce
Microsoft has released a version of its Edge browser, based on Google's Chromium open-source browser, for Linux, an act that nobody would have considered possible…
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Open Sauce
Sunday, 18 October 2020 09:09
Cambridge Analytica yarn turns out to be as much a hoax as Russiagate
By Sam Varghese
Much in the same way the myth that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign in the 2016 US presidential election was shown to be just…
Published in
Open Sauce
Tuesday, 13 October 2020 09:17
Australia must act fast to bed down mandatory media code law
By Sam Varghese
Is one mistaken or is Google now resigned to the introduction of a mandatory code that will force it to negotiate with Australian news publishers…
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Open Sauce
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Comments
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Re: iTWire - ABC refuses request to rethink iview data sharing decision
I guess we can safely assume they're mining and selling our personal data to others.It's your ABC, but not your[…]
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Re: iTWire - Review: OPPO A94 5G is the big brother of budget 5G phones
I agree. Not much new in these devices these days, but there is a big market out there for the[…]
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Re: iTWire - Review: OPPO A94 5G is the big brother of budget 5G phones
Copying Samsung, which also has a A3x, A5x, A7x, A9x line up at similar price points.
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Re: iTWire - Fake news: News Corp claims Huawei pulling out of Australia
Has Jennifer put the Dud in Dudley-Nicholson?
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Re: iTWire - Q+A spreads misinformation – while discussing how to stop it
The problem lies with so-called pundits who are trying to push a particular line and do not bother to verify[…]
