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Anatomy of a security hole - Google’s „Android Master Key” debacle explained
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This month’s “computer security elephant in the room” story is the news of a gaping security hole in Android application security. Paul Ducklin gives you a visual explanation of what the problem is all about, and offers some simple advice.

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#android #cryptography #featured #google #malware #mobile #security_threats #android #apk #checksum #manifest #many_a_slip_twixt_cup_and_lip #master_key #verification

Des #Dons pour #Reflets, pour quoi faire ?
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Depuis quelques jours, nous appelons nos lecteurs à faire des dons pour Reflets. Voici pourquoi… Le 23 décembre 2010, Reflets publiait son premier article. Le début d’une longue série puisque nous en sommes aujourd’hui, près de trois ans plus tard à 1374 articles et quatre émissions de radio. Nous n’avons pas ménagé nos efforts. Nous [...]

#A_la_Une #Tribunes #Budget #featured #Journalisme

We like #Linda_Ikeji’s blog, but we wish she’d drop the #homophobia.
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A lot of people like Linda Ikeji’s blog. With The Punch and Nairaland it probably has the most readers of any Nigerian site out there. And most of the time there’s a lot to like, or at least a lot of Nigerian and American pop culture to gawp at. There are posts about £1 million [...]

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The #UK government is now tweeting its contempt for people of colour
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If you want to learn something about the state of political debate in the UK right now, you could do worse than to read through the public reaction to the UK #Home_Office’s decision last week to tweet out pictures of alleged “illegal immigrants” being arrested, along with the promise that with new legislation “there [...]

#FEATURED #Latest #POLITICS #_Illegal_immigrants_ #Azelle_Rogers #Duwayne_Brooks #Jean_Charles_de_Menezes #Mau_Mau #Metrpolitan_Police #Musa_Okwonga #Stephen_Lawrence

3 #BOOKS on #Nelson_Mandela
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Tweet The American public radio network, NPR, asked me to recommend 3 books its listeners could read on Nelson Mandela’s life and legacy. Of course I recommended #Long_Walk_to_Freedom and Conversations with Myself. I also included this small book: There is a tendency to set Mandela apart from the social or political movements that shaped [...]

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The Zebras of #Northern_Nigeria
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Tweet The guy in the picture is #Abubakar_Suleiman, a 15 year-old Boston student whose hobbies apparently include taking condescending local reporters for a ride. When one of the more august organs of the American press, the #Boston_Globe (founded 1872), came calling this week at his school in Boston’s suburbs (“thousands of miles from the beautiful, [...]

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After the #World_Cup is gone
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Tweet Do we need a book on the #2010_World_Cup already? That’s the first question I asked #Peter_Alegi and #Chris_Bolsmann, editors of the brand new volume, Africa’s World Cup (University of Michigan Press, 2013). Their quick riposte: “Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu said that ‘anyone who wasn’t thrilled by the World Cup needs to [...]

#FEATURED #Football_is_a_Country #Latest #Asamoah_Gyan #Luis_Suarez #Simphiwe_Tshabalala #Uruguay

The Popular Resistance in #Egypt
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Tweet It feels like we have been here before. The last time I had to field this many phone calls, texts, and e-mails was in February 2011. Then, as now, Egyptians and their allies all over the world celebrated the end of a dangerous regime. Then, as now, social media and corporate media alike exploded with [...]

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The Popular Resistance in #Egypt
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Tweet It feels like we have been here before. The last time I had to field this many phone calls, texts, and e-mails was in February 2011. Then, as now, Egyptians and their allies all over the world celebrated the end of a dangerous regime. Then, as now, social media and corporate media alike exploded with [...]

#FEATURED #Latest #POLITICS #Adli_Mansour #Jan25 #June30 #Mohamed_Morsi #SCAF #Tamarod

My Favorite Photographs N° 17: #thina_zibi
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Tweet The “My favorite photographs” series is back with South African photographer/art director Thina Zibi. Born in Cape Town and now residing in Johannesburg, South Thina Zibi is at the vanguard of visual artists documenting creative youth culture in urban #South_Africa. She demonstrates with her images the incredible innovation evident in contemporary South African [...]

#FASHION #FEATURED #Latest #PHOTOGRAPHY #Bongeziwe_Mabandla

Summer Reading List
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Tweet Everything I’ve heard and read about François-Xavier Fauvel-Aymar’s Le Rhinocéros d’Or tells me I’m going to love it… The author is a French historian who specializes in medieval Africa and sheds light on ignored parts of African histories trough a number of mini-essays covering very specific moments and places. It has gotten raving reviews pretty [...]

#BOOKS #FEATURED #Latest #Born_Fi'_Dead #Le_Rhinocéros_d'Or #Learning_to_Pray_in_the_Age_of_Technique #Lumières_de_Pointe-Noire #Popular_Politics_in_the_History_of_South_Africa_1400-1948 #Queer_African_Reader #The_Heart_of_Redness #The_Informationist #The_Tuner_of_Silences #We_Need_New_Names #Welcome_To_Our_Hillbrow

A Potted History of #Failed_States
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Tweet What version of the Third World in 2013 does Washington DC want to tell itself, and why? In the same week that investigative reporter #Jeremy_Scahill spoke of the need for the USA to “take a humility pill” in order to become a properly functioning democracy with a government truly accountable to its people, [...]

#FEATURED #JOURNALISM #Latest #MEDIA #POLITICS #Boutros_Boutros-Ghali #Claire_Leigh #Failed_States_Index #Foreign_Policy_Magazine #Fund_for_Peace #Gerald_Helman #JJ_Messner #Steven_Ratner

What can #Barack_Obama’s “Power Africa” program achieve ?
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Tweet Seven billion dollars is a lot of money—except when it goes into #infrastructure. Then, $7bn, the sum that the US has committed to spend over the next five years on the Obama administration’s newly-announced Power Africa initiative, does not sound like so much at all. Even considering that Power Africa will roll out in [...]

#Business #FEATURED #Latest #POLITICS #Africapitalism #aid #Aldwych_International #electricity #Ethiopia #Ghana #Heirs_Holdings #investment #Joseph_Wilson #Kenya #Liberia #Nigeria #OPIC #Symbion_Power #Tanzania #Tony_Elumelu

Whose “New African Writing” ?
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Tweet The #Latest issue of the Journal of Postcolonial and Commonwealth Studies takes on “African writing in the twenty-first century” and presents views on topics as varied as South African theater, queer Kenyan bloggers, digital publishing, and the #Caine_Prize for African Writing. An edited version of Lindsey Green-Simms’s introduction to the issue appeared here on AIAC mid-June. But as varied (...)

#BOOKS #FEATURED #African_Literature #Ahmad_Yamani #Arabic_Writing #Egypt #Facebook #Granta #Kamel_Riahi #Kwani #Libya #Literature #Miral_al-Tahawy #Mohammed_Rabie #Morocco #Nael_el-Toukhy #North_Africa #Tamazight #Tareq_Emam #Tunisia #Yasser_Abdellatif #Youssef_Rakha

#Gideon_Mendel’s photographs of people affected by #flooding
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Tweet South African photographer Gideon Mendel is best known for his work on HIV/AIDS in the monograph “A Broken Landscape” (2001) and in projects with big-name NGOs. He is a six-time winner of the World Press Photo Award and a self-proclaimed ‘advocacy’ photographer. His #Latest project Drowning World is a series of portraits of people [...]

#ART #FEATURED #PHOTOGRAPHY #Nigeria #South_Africa #Tiwani_Contemporary

Madiba, Maliba (and me)
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Tweet We don’t live in a world of heroes, but at rare moments we celebrate those who emerge from the shadows to push them further back. I don’t know if #Nelson_Mandela has heroes. He must have. We all know he had comrades, both within the ANC and without. When he visited #Mali in 1996, he [...]

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Weekend #MUSIC Break
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Tweet Here’s your weekly round-up of new videos and tunes to get the weekend started. First up, Gaël Faye giving us another #VIDEO off his “Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre” record, and reminding us of everything that’s good in Bujumbura. Pick your dish: ‘Burning’ is the lead single off Silver Bullet’s “Afrikans in Denmark” EP, featuring Afrikan Boy: [...]

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Autonomy in #Barcelona: the #Mount_Zion community
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Tweet Between the 19th and early 20th century, Barcelona’s #Poblenou neighborhood became the site of a fascinating transformation. Factories, processing plants and small stores blossomed as industrialization turned the swampy marshes on the banks of the Besòs River into a densely populated hub, centered on the textile industry. They also poisoned that river, and the living conditions (...)

#FEATURED #Latest #POLITICS #22@_project #Confederación_Nacional_del_Trabajo #immigration #Spain

A History of Violence
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Tweet While South African men seem to increasingly realize that it is their responsibility to do something about the endemic levels of violence against girls and women, the resulting initiatives have often taken the form of symbolic gestures, such as marches and protests. A telling example is the #Real_Men_March, organized by the conservative [...]

#FEATURED #Latest #POLITICS #Apartheid #coloured #Family_Policy_Institute #gender_violence #masculinity #Robert_Morrell #Sonke_Gender_Justice #Xhosa

ZAM Chronicle: an online investigative magazine on and from Africa
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This month sees the launch of #The_ZAM_Chronicle, a new monthly online investigative magazine with a highly ambitious mission: “to be a platform for grassroots, crowd-sourced observations on and from the African continent.” The ZAM Chronicle is born out of the Netherlands-based #Zam_Magazine, which Africa is a Country readers will remember for its [...]

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Jogo Bonito
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“Tear gas is a magic potion,” writes Chris Gaffney from the streets of Rio. “Those who launch it are weakened while those forced to inhale it are strengthened.” For those of you interested in the politics of football in #Brazil, his blog – as well as his excellent book on Stadia in Argentina and Brazil - is a key place [...]

#FEATURED #Football_is_a_Country #Latest #World_Cup

After Mandela
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I returned home to South Africa a few days before #Nelson_Mandela was readmitted to hospital. This is the fourth and longest period he has been under observation by doctors since last December, and many here are convinced this may be his final visit. Mandela has not been active in South African politics for at [...]

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#Angola’s Biennale
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On June 1st, a Sub-Saharan African country won a top prize Leone d’Or/#Golden_lion at the #Venice_Biennale the first time in 118 years. In all the excitement surrounding “Africa’s triumph” and the way Venice is “Going Global” it has been harder to find critics asking what #Edson_Chagas’s winning work does, the context through [...]

#ART #FEATURED #Latest #OPINION #Leone_d'Or

Will Barack #Obama get a frosty reception when he visits South Africa this weekend?
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In a way, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille’s decision to award US president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama the Freedom of the City (Cape Town’s highest honor), sort of makes sense, if you stretch your imagination. The thinking behind it is captured in that iconic photo from 2009 of President Obama bending [...]

#FEATURED #Latest #POLITICS #drones #Freedom_of_Cape_Town #NOBama #ObamainAfrica #University_of_Johannesburg

Is violence against women too common, too ordinary to qualify as interesting?
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Back in February gender-based violence dominated media and public talk when South Africans declared themselves woken up, disgusted, outraged and horrified after the rape and murder of working class, black #Anene_Booysen and the murder of middle class, white Reeva Steenkamp (both by their boyfriends; though Reeva more than Anene). Yet, by the time International [...]

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