Before your email account gets hacked, here’s what you should do
Posted inSecurity

Before your email account gets hacked, here’s what you should do

You can avoid becoming a victim of most of these breaches by making use of multi-factor authentication. Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a security system that requires more than one method of authentication from independent categories of credentials to verify the user’s identity for a login or other transaction.
Posted inBroadband

A week in rural Zimbabwe

The elders proudly explained how their young sons and daughters had not abandoned them. During each holiday the "children" come to visit and they come bearing gifts of smartphones and solar panels. They spend days tutoring their parents and grandparents on how to use technologies like WhatsApp and Facebook so that when they go back to town they can keep in touch.
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Posted inSecurity

An introduction to encryption

This is an introduction into the world of encryption which touches on the basics of the subject. The topic is becoming increasingly relevant in a world where a lot of our data is shared on cloud networks.
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Posted inEnergy

Waiting for the rains

In the meantime, just take my advice, go buy yourself a generator or a solar system because even if the rain comes this problem is only going to get worse.
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Posted inStartups

Winter is coming

My dear geeky friends, it is with this in mind, and with a heavy heart that I tell you: Winter is coming and it is almost upon us. None of us will be spared and you would do well to heed the Stark words and make your preparations. Go in hibernation mode like Polar bears and save whatever little money your startup has and spend it wisely for I fear this winter will be long m'lords.
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Posted inConnectivity

I fear infrastructure sharing …

Here's an opinion on why the Infrastructure Sharing arrangement that is being rolled out for Zimbabwean Telecoms should be feared, or at the very least, accepted with caution.
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Posted inHardware & Software

I will keep my key, thank you

With the rise in the number of cloud storage services, the subsequent fall in prices of the same cloud storage services and the increasing adoption of broadband internet, more and more Zimbabweans are making use of cloud storage services as a backup option. Most people do not take care to encrypt their files on their end before they entrust these to some third party.
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Posted inBroadband

What is local content?

So after the noise with the tengai.co.zw store and the ensuing usual talk about local content one question has been tickling the nether regions of my brain. Just what the heck is local content?
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Posted inHardware & Software

The trouble with Android…

Here is a sad fact: If you are a Zimbabwean reading this from your Android device there is a 99% probability ( ok I just made that number up but you get the idea) that you are doing so from a vulnerable device that has not been updated in a long time if ever.
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Posted inGlobal News

America does not like the taste of its own medicine

The United States has been spying on every nation under the sun under the guise of protecting its own national security. This is odd, considering how its citizens have been outraged by the disclosure that their government has been spying on them.
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Posted inHardware & Software

What is a DMARC policy, and why should I set it up anyway?

Still on the topic of setting up your own email servers for your startup, here's a look at a DMARC policy. What is it? Well, it will allow you, for example, to tell servers receiving your emails what to do when they receive emails purporting to be from you that fail either SPF or DKIM checks.
Posted inSocial Media

How the internet eviscerated Walter Palmer

A lot of people seem to all of a sudden know who Walter Palmer is thanks to the internet. People the world over from Zimbabwe to Hollywood celebrities and now even real life knights have been hurling the choicest abuse that people can muster at Palmer for the past day and a half ever since the Telegraph outed him as the man who killed Cecil the Lion.
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