http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2 Rants and Raves about Technology by the Grumpy Old Techie Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:09:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/07/22/africa-from-the-rooftops/ http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/07/22/africa-from-the-rooftops/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:04:15 +0000 Grumpy Old Techie http://www.menusis.com/wordpress2/?p=865 If you have a look at the page “Where I’ve been” you will see that I have traveled in most of Sub Saharan Africa.  I travel in Africa for work, which is installing advertisement monitoring systems for one of my customers. more....

Tags: advertisement, africa, antenna, countries, experiences, internet, ivory coast, Mac, malawi, monitor, radio, rooftops, sub saharan africa, systems, Tech, television broadcasts, visa, war, Watch, work]]> If you have a look at the page “Where I’ve been” you will see that I have traveled in most of Sub Saharan Africa.  I travel in Africa for work, which is installing advertisement monitoring systems for one of my customers. more....

Tags: advertisement, africa, antenna, countries, experiences, internet, ivory coast, Mac, malawi, monitor, radio, rooftops, sub saharan africa, systems, Tech, television broadcasts, visa, war, Watch, work
]]> http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/07/22/africa-from-the-rooftops/feed/ 0 http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/04/01/be-careful-where-you-put-your-grubby-little-paws/ http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/04/01/be-careful-where-you-put-your-grubby-little-paws/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:05:39 +0000 Grumpy Old Techie http://grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/?p=409 While we are talking about Jacob Zuma and company down here in SA, the Germans are debating the use of biometric data for identification. One of my favourite groups the Chaos Computer Club of Berlin has pretty much proven that using biometric data like fingerprints, retina scans or facial features are not such a good idea by lifting their minister of interior Wolfgang Schäuble’s fingerprints and then showing how easy it is to fool these sytems. more....

Tags: biometric data, body parts, ccc, chaos computer club, computer, demolition man, fingerprint system, fingerprints, identification, Jacob Zuma, shopping, war, Watch,]]> While we are talking about Jacob Zuma and company down here in SA, the Germans are debating the use of biometric data for identification. One of my favourite groups the Chaos Computer Club of Berlin has pretty much proven that using biometric data like fingerprints, retina scans or facial features are not such a good idea by lifting their minister of interior Wolfgang Schäuble’s fingerprints and then showing how easy it is to fool these sytems. more....

Tags: biometric data, body parts, ccc, chaos computer club, computer, demolition man, fingerprint system, fingerprints, identification, Jacob Zuma, shopping, war, Watch,
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