ZA Tech Show – Episode 96: ‘Auroras’

Posted on Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 08:13 by Simon and filed under Podcast episodes, ZA Tech Show.

This week security expert Dominic White makes his debut on the show,  joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle. We discuss:

  • The ongoing Google-China debacle.
  • The Aurora exploit.
  • Nokia providing Ovi Maps gratis.
  • Telkom’s SAT3 problems last week.
  • App store mania.
  • In-flight internet access coming to SA.

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2 Comments so far

Comment by Devan, posted on January 25th, 2010 at 08:35

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxblood_Ruffin

Oxblood Ruffin is almost certainly not his real name, but is has been pretty famous since the the late 80s.

Comment by Trekelny, posted on January 26th, 2010 at 01:27

Another great show guys. It’s always tough to figure the order of speakers, when you can’t see each other.

As for satellite comms, it’s horribly expensive and the thing to remember is that most communications, unlike legacy TV broadcasting, is TWO-way. The need for the upstream input channel is what really taxes satellite. And even for backbone transport, satellite is reliably more expensive than landline alternatives. Landline is more expensive in Africa than elsewhere, but Africa satellite is even more expensive than other satellite!

New satellite networks are presumably on the way which do promise to cut the costs: check out o3B as one example.

A rather cynical view of Google, gentlemen! The news is out that lots of other companies have also been routinely subject to this kind of espionage. I think China (and sure, other governments too) are going to need to learn to play nice, not just enterprises.

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