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		<title>Mark Cuban purchases Democracy.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to the New York Times, Mark Cuban purchased Democracy.com &#8211; The NYT reported that Mark Cuban purchased the domain name: “to make sure someone didn’t do something crazy with it.” In South Africa (and Africa in general) small business does not pay proper attention to BRANDING. Yet, a brand name is probably one of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is your domain name protected against email spoofing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2019 06:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over 90% of South African Companies do not have adequate anti cybercrime protection for their co.za domain names. a Quick dig @1000 co.za random company domain names result in over 90% (912) providing limited or no anti fraud, anti spoofing and anti cybercrime protection! So few South African companies are protecting their domains against email [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ZA Domain Space Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do you even know who owns your co.za domain name? Can you verify it independently? (Answer: No) Can you check your own domain name at the central registry yourself? (Answer: No) Can you pay anyone to independently verify your domain registration? (Answer: No) But, there are laws about that though? (Answer: No) Okay, but at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>noreply@</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2019 13:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how some companies think that they are simply too big to care? Some companies call &#8220;communication&#8221; the one way rubbish they &#8220;Blast&#8221; out from noreply@ and text messages from long non existent numbers. So, not communicating but attacking some randomly submitted email address and/or phone number. But, that is not where the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sweat Shops</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 05:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[History teaches us that during the Industrial revolution workers were treated very poorly.  As the 4th Industrial Revolution becomes mainstream (and crawls further into it&#8217;s decline), history is repeating itself. In a recent news article, the 4th Industrial revolution sweat shops are featured. Where workers work for pennies per hour, just to be happy to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>4th Industrial Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 04:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 4th Industrial revolution is the Internet. If you understand that, then you know that the fourth industrial revolution started in the late 1960s. And, if you understand that, then you know that the fourth industrial revolution reached it&#8217;s heights around 2008. From 2009 onwards, the disruption started on a downwards spiral as disruption itself, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Should I buy an SSD or HDD</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 07:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently heard a very cool IT joke. It goes like this: Question: What is the difference between a used car salesperson and a computer/IT sales person? Answer: The used car salesperson knows that they are lying. You need to make a decision between HDD and SDD, but you are not sure about all the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Understanding Major Digital Disruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 05:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Understanding major digital disruption and managing the changes caused by digital transformation starts by &#8220;following the money&#8221;. This guide is a series of posts to assist businesses to understand and make sense of technological changes. There are hundreds of experts using terminology like &#8220;AI&#8221; and &#8220;IoT&#8221; and &#8220;Cloud&#8221; and how the world will be shaped [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cybertools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 07:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Does your cybertools control you or do you control your cybertools? It is an interesting question and you will probably be surprised at the answer. The answer is that the average person is being controlled by their cybertools. The impact of social influence is completely underestimated, both by the average person as well as in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Facebook’s WhatsApp is taking an increasingly central role in elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2018 03:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The popular Facebook WhatsApp system is now more frequently used to control the outcome of elections worldwide. WhatsApp is being used to drive fake news, inflame opinions and spread rumours in India while the world is watching. The use of social media to control, influence and motivate people into either voting for someone or to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Your Data is gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, it turns out that Facebook has a lot more data than you thought it did. But that is not the worst. As an example of how bad this is, when you connect to Facebook Messenger all your phone contacts are uploaded to Facebook. Facebook NEVER deletes any data and also tracks whom you &#8216;unfriend&#8217;, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How IT can improve your quality of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2018 02:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You can improve your quality of life, health and longer term prospects of sanity by simply turning off all your notifications. Less stress, less panic, less outrage, less despair and other negative emotions. Increased productivity, Better health and Improved general quality of life. Just turn it off. (Somehow though, even if you turn it off, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>African Data and the new American Cloud Act</title>
		<link>https://it-web.co.za/african-data-and-the-new-american-cloud-act/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 05:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The CLOUD Act is expected to become law in the US shortly. Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) is a bill introduced by Republican Sen Hatch.  This bill would allow the Trump administration to force US companies to hand over African (and any other data) with due process in America, even if that data [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Social Media Harmful to Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“A growing body of research demonstrates that excessive use of digital devices and social media is harmful to children and teens, making it very likely this new app will undermine children’s healthy development.” says an open letter to the Social media giant, Facebook. Headlines in the Washington Post shouted: &#8220;Teenage depression and suicide are way [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What is Bitcoin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 06:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bitcoin is an electronic asset. It is not money or electronic cash. Yes, you can use Bitcoin to pay for something in the same way as you can trade your car for a cat. Recently some payment systems, for example Stripe, dropped Bitcoin as a method of payment. Stripe correctly states that Bitcoin is an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Billions of South African Rands exported every year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2018 05:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[More security issues from Intel (Over and above Spectre and Meltdown). Regarding ME (Management Engines) the Intel CPU manufacturer said a few days ago: Intel has identified security vulnerabilities that could potentially impact certain PCs, servers, and IoT platforms The above may be lost in all the noise, hype and media attention of Spectre and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Living with Spectre</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2018 06:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Meltdown CPU hardware issue can be mitigated by software, although at a processing cost. (My own system is already patched against meltdown) Spectre however, is a design flaw and although software can be effective in mitigating some of the issue, Spectre is something that planet earth will have to live with for the next [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Global News Embargo on major CPU security issues</title>
		<link>https://it-web.co.za/global-news-embargo-on-major-cpu-security-issues/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2018 05:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is currently a global security embargo on the latest huge global security threat which some are calling by some variation of the term &#8220;CPU&#8221; (central processing unit) All CPU&#8217;s (Intel/AMD) are affected by the security issues as the attack vector is virtual memory. Most at risk are cloud systems where physical memory is mapped [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Apple admits to slowing down older devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 04:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Various techies claimed that Apple slows down performance of older devices, on purpose. The claims were always defended as old devices building up lots of garbage, slow internet connections and many other nonsensical reasons. It turns out that the claims were correct. There is more&#8230; Apple apologised, there is a &#8220;spin&#8221; on the reason why [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Future of IT and Tech</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2017 07:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whatever the eventual future of IT and tech is, one central theme is emerging. Information Technology is following the same principles found in extreme capitalism. On a planetary basis, the economic gap between the have and the have nots has never been as wide as in 2017. Same thing can be said of Tech companies. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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