R&D Techlead and Dev Manager / e-Commerce / Java- & JEE specialist / gadgeteer / consumer-, privacy- & security activist
So this weekend (10th December) CBOE is launching their futures trade of BTX. CME will launch it on 18th December. Both are large derivatives exchanges in the world and CME for example is the oldest in the world. My prediction...
The recent surge in trades on crypto-currency such as IOTA has started to attract many main-stream “crypto-investors” using platforms such as Luno Money, Coinbase, Binance (my favorite) or LiteBit.eu. My recent bad experience with Luno Money showed what can happen...
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT WARNING: With IOTA becoming popular, people want to store their coins in a local wallet. Since IOTA requires a seed, people just randomly click on any web-site link to create a seed. Don’t be mislead by...
One of the best tools to get for your MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is BetterTouchTool. I use it for many different use cases and one of them is my financial bar: Once you install the BetterTouchTool it is quite...
Let’s start off with the most obvious: Local IT websites such as MyBroadband do not cover one of South Africa’s largest ISP breaches with objectivity and without bias. What will you do if your core business is to report on...
If you missed the previous updates, it’s good to read “What should have happened in the Master Deeds leak” and “South African Master Deeds data leaked via MySQL data dump“. I have asked Troy Hunt last night to run some...
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...
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