Alex Kidman
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ACMA’s New Standards To Fight Mobile Fraud: What You Need To Know
It’s surprisingly complicated to register a new mobile phone service in Australia, but sadly all too frighteningly easy to get one fraudulently ported away from its rightful owner. New standards being brought in by the ACMA want to make that kind of criminal effort much harder. Not that long ago, I had to pick up…
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Putting Huge Spikes On Your Ford F-350 Instead Of Wheels Won’t Help It Plough A Field
This looks cool as hell, but it’s also stupidly impractical, which you could guess just by looking at it. Still, bless you, internet people for making a Ford F-350 into this ridiculous, glorious mess.
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Australia’s Broken Computer Visa System Is Reportedly Leaving Healthy Chinese Students Stranded
An error in Australia’s airline visa system is leaving Chinese students who have already waited out a 14 day exclusion period around COVID-19 coronavirus fears stranded overseas while they wait to return to Australia. Updated: Home Affairs refutes the claims, however.
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Apple’s iPhones Security Could Have Been Exploited On Patchy Wi-Fi
A flaw in the encryption used by Broadcom and Cypress Semiconductor left Apple devices vulnerable to having their private data sent over the air decrypted, but Apple says it’s already patched the flaw for affected devices.