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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by LegitShady on Monday September 02, 2019 @06:58PM (#20862332)
if they don't have the expertise, someone else with the expertise interested in access to the data will help them.
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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by nevi-me on Monday September 02, 2019 @08:05PM (#20862665)
Often at exorbitant cost in our case. The SSA is an unaccountable financial black hole. Our former president send to have also used them for his political gain, this Fraser chap is responsible for many misdeeds.

Now parts of our country are literally burning, yet there's no crime intelligence about the very threats to the state that SSA should be monitoring for. There was an act of terror that was nearly committed 2 days ago, but we're seeing poor leadership from those involved.

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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by executesorder66 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:55AM (#20863788)
> There was an act of terror that was nearly committed 2 days ago

Please can you provide a link to more info on this?

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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by nroets on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:38AM (#20864971)
There are protests by truck drivers and some of these actions can be seen as terrorism.

https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/kwazulu-natal/two-truck...

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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by executesorder66 on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:08AM (#20874693)
I don't think that is what they were alluding to. They said: "an act of terror that was _nearly_ committed"
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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by godelski on Monday September 02, 2019 @08:39PM (#20862804)
Hasn't China been doing this all over Africa and South America?
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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by madlodlombe on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:28AM (#20864913)
Yup, in Africa China built and bugged (allegedly - China and the AU denied) the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/30/china-african-...
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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by dragonelite on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @01:05AM (#20863821)
Not only China, there are more then enough western countries that export these technologies.
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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by jldugger on Monday September 02, 2019 @10:20PM (#20863238)
It's surprising to me at least because South Africa has a GDP per capita of $~6.1k, and perhaps can't afford access to that expertise.

Which I suppose suggests that they didn't pay for it, and another nation state 'helped out' via intermediaries.

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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by toomanybeersies on Monday September 02, 2019 @10:49PM (#20863365)
GDP per capita isn't a great measurement for the capabilities of a state.
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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by jldugger on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @04:19PM (#20870739)
You're right, it's probably better to look at GDP overall, since that's basically the tax base theoretically.
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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by pinkfoot on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:29AM (#20867475)
1. Its not uniformlly distributed. 2. China has GDP/person of ~$9,600 3. South Africa merrilly mines 4km below ground 4. Previous efforts included a nuclear weapons programme 5. Whole parts of Amazon's infa a built in CT

Get out more.

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Re:South African authorities admit to mass surveillance by jldugger on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @04:23PM (#20870793)
Apologies, you seem to have taken this a bit more personally intended. All I was intending to suggest was that the SA gov budget would be somewhat constraining its ambitions, not that its people are technologically behind, or whatever else you seem to be implying here.
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