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Censorship

Censorship is not a new thing for the Information & Communication Technologies Authority

Censorship seems to be generally accepted by the ICT Authority under the pretense of enforcing Section 18(1)(m) of the ICT Act. Today, the debate is no more whether to censor or not, but rather how to censor.

Ish Sookun

3 min read
Legislation

ICTA says only public posts on Social Media will be archived — Wrong!

The Information and Communication Technologies Authority published a Consultation Paper on 14 April 2021 which contains proposals to amend the ICT Act.

Ish Sookun

2 min read
Legislation

ICT Authority's proposal to monitor the Internet, in a nutshell

The Information and Communication Technologies Authority published a Consultation Paper on 14 April 2021 which contains proposals to amend the ICT Act. The ICT Authority proposes two frameworks and a set of tools to decrypt and archive traffic on social media platforms for inspection purposes.

Ish Sookun

5 min read
COVID-19

Questions people are asking about COVID-19 related deaths

In the past few weeks, the National Communication Committee on COVID-19 informed Mauritians about the death of COVIID-19 patients but the cause of death not attributed to COVID-19 itself.

Ish Sookun

3 min read
Data breach

Data on 848,558 Facebook users from Mauritius leaked online

A massive data breach from Facebook is currently making headlines. What's worst about it is that it involves the accounts of hundreds of thousands of Mauritians.

Ish Sookun

1 min read
MSCC

MSCC Summit 2021 announced

MSCC Summit is a community-centric event organized by user groups in Mauritius. All topics, presentations and activities are picked, planned and exceuted by user group members. There are no Call for Speakers.

Ish Sookun

1 min read
Mauritius

COVID-19 Quarantine Period extended till 31 May

Previously, the quarantine period was set till 31 March 2021. Following Cabinet meeting of Friday 26 Februrary 2021, the quarantine period has been further extended.

Admin

1 min read
openSUSE

openSUSE distributions dedicated page

openSUSE is not just one Linux distribution. It is a project that hosts different distributions adapted for specific needs, e.g desktop, server & container orchestration. The desktop and server editions are available in regular releases and rolling editions.

Admin

1 min read
Ubuntu

How to host a free 1 year server running UBUNTU in AWS?

If you are looking to practice with Ubuntu servers, especially hosting websites, running databases etc, then an Ubuntu virtual private server is the ideal solution. If you can get that for free it's even better. Yes, you can get an Ubuntu virtual server for free on the Amazon Web Services.

Chittesh Sham

2 min read