With many devices rushing to connect to the IoT (Internet of Things), security does not seem to get a high priority before roll-out. Later on, the third-party security experts poke around and expose the vulnerabilities and the suppliers rush to slap Band-Aids over their poor programming. A case in point
During my brief tenure at the festering online sinkhole that is Twitter, I quickly learned the one, unbreakable rule: the left are untouchable. I was permanently banned from the platform after just a few months, for suggesting that a troll do something that he would surely have found quite pleasurable.
As observant readers will know, we have copped another ban on Facebook. This time it was for daring to post about how Joe Rogan successfully treated his Covid infection with Ivermectin. It has prompted us to look at alternate methods of distribution to eventually replace Facebook. The first such method
Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities New Zealand’s largest city is in lockdown with no end in sight. Over a million people are restricted in their movements and the future of their livelihoods due to the latest COVID-19 outbreak that saw
rt.com US video game firm Tripwire Interactive has announced the immediate departure of its chief executive and apologized profusely that its former leader spoke out in favor of the new Texas abortion law. Chief executive John Gibson has “stepped down,” effective immediately, Tripwire said on Monday. The reason? “His
James Jin Kang Jumana Abu-Khalaf Edith Cowan University Dr James Kang is currently teaching computing and security in Edith Cowan University after having worked in telecommuncaitions industry for more than 20 years. He recently visited Africa to work for NGOs as a volunteer IT advisor sponsored by the Australian government
Ausma Bernot Alexander Trauth-Goik Sue Trevaskes mercatornet.com Ausma Bernot is a PhD Candidate at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University. Alex Trauth-Goik is a PhD candidate at the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong. Sue Trevaskes is Head of School (Interim)
Joe Burton University of Waikato Senior Lecturer, New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato As Friday’s attack by an ISIS sympathiser in a New Zealand supermarket has shown, ISIS’s extreme ideology still holds strong appeal for some disaffected Muslims living in the west. ISIS
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
The Bedfordshire Fire Service has posted the following on their website to inform people about electric vehicle fires in England’s green and pleasant land. (Apologies to to William Blake.) Causes of an EV Fire Electric vehicles are powered most commonly by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The first lithium-ion battery
Yesterday’s cyber-attack on New Zealand’s telecommunications network is a clear sign the Government has failed again to protect New Zealand’s cyber borders, National’s Digital Economy and Communications spokesperson Melissa Lee says. “Alongside the recent drop of New Zealand in the United Nations ITU Global Cybersecurity Index
Last week, with little fanfare, and near-zero media commentary, Australia slid deeper into a surveillance state. The occasion was the passing of the The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021. The final bill was passed after just 24 hours. Major media outlets like the ABC ignored it. The
Brigid Magner Linda Daley RMIT University Brigid is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies and founding member of the non/fictionLab research group at RMIT University. Her monograph Locating Australian Literary Memory was published by Anthem Press in 2019. Linda teaches literary studies in the School of Media & Communication.
Who would have thought that Facebook would become a target of censorship, and from none other than the Biden administration? ReclaimTheNet explains. The Biden administration continues to pressure Facebook to collaborate and help it achieve its goals, one of them being to counter COVID vaccine skepticism and get more people
Jathan Sadowski Monash University Research Fellow, Emerging Technologies Research Lab and CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Monash University I’m a Luddite. This is not a hesitant confession, but a proud proclamation. I’m also a social scientist who studies how new technologies affect politics, economics and society. For
Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com Jesus is King I woke up to another hit piece about both Gab and myself this morning. You know you are over target when you’re taking flak on a weekly basis. The funny thing is the “hit piece” actually made Gab look pretty great.
