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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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