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It’s important to tackle technology from a Malaysian perspective, this a collection of post I’ve made that focus on Malaysia and how we use (or don’t use) technology from a legal, social and economic perspective.

• Security Offences Bill vs. Universal declaration of Human Rights This is what Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: This is what security offences bill in Malaysia says: To me, the phrase 'if he considers it is likely' is another way of saying arbitary. It used to be an excuse t...
• Can you out-tech the government? Over the past years we've seen a recurrent theme where Government agencies were attempting to curtail internet freedom in the name of 'keeping the peace'. From Saudi telcos threatening security experts to help them hijack tweets to governments procuring t...
• Should we learn from China? I'm truly anxious at the recent rhetoric about 'regulating' of the internet, and fear the worst. I grew up with the internet and like to think we made a journey together, from my high school days where dial-up internet was the norm, to the blazing fast br...
• Will Malaysia follow Singapore to reduce internet freedom Yes, we trail Singapore when it comes to Maths and Science scores, and sure we don't earn as much as our noisy neighbours, but it sure feels good to beat Singapore when it comes to press freedom. Reporters without borders ranks Singapore a lowly 149 (out ...
• Maxis blocks Torrent traffic There's a really cool tool called glasnost, that can easily detect if your ISP is throttling certain traffic through its servers. It works amazingly well at detecting if your ISP is blocking that most sacred of all internet traffic--BitTorrent. So runn...
• The Malaysian cybertrooper phenomenon or is it Botnet? The Edge recently held a political poll on whether Anwar Ibrahim should quit as the Opposition leader--But when the editor begun to see that the one-week survey attracted 12,736 responses and the responses were overwhelmingly one-sided, she smelt somethin...
• DAP lodges report with MCMC over blocked sites Two days ago, the Democratic Action Party (DAP) lodge a report to the MCMC on an 'internet blockade' targeting DAP related political websites that was allegedly being carried out by Telekom Malaysia (TM). As you may know TM is the largest ISP in Malaysi...
• Meet your new Ministers of Communication and Multimedia Couple of weeks before the election, we saw how the Deputy Minister of Information Communications and Culture was so into Information communications. Now, with the new cabinet being sworn in, I'm sad to say we'll probably see more of the same ol' same ol'...
• Freedom vs. Security : Papagomo arrested Bruce Schneier, whom I respect tremendously, points out that freedom and security are opposing ends of the same spectrum, people balance out freedom and security based on what they perceive. In other words, people would sacrifice their freedoms if they th...
• Top 4 ways to access blocked sites Here's some quick tips on how to access blocked sites in Malaysia that is blocked by the ISP (Telekom, Maxis, Time..etc etc). Currently the ISPs in Malaysia are throttling and filtering specific traffic to websites like Malaysiakini, Facebook and even...
• Censoring and spying--Malaysian Style In 2 days time, the South-East Asian nation of Malaysia will go through its 13th General Election since 1955. Some might look negatively on the number 13, but for the vast majority of Malaysians the coming few days will either raise our hopes or shatter t...
• Kerajaan Malaysian Mengintip Rakyat Malaysia sendiri Beberapa minggu lalu, saya telah menulis tentang sekeping artikel yang 'tidak bertanggungjawab' oleh Malaysian Insider apabila 'mendakwa' kerajaan Malaysia mengintip rakyat Malaysia - tanpa sebarang bukti. Saya amat kecewa bahawa wartawan tersebut mem...
• I'm Sorry, the Malaysian Government IS spying on you A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an 'irresponsible' piece of journalism by the Malaysian Insider when the 'claimed' the Malaysian government was spying on Malaysian citizens--but they didn't have any proof. I was very upset that a reporter would make ...
• Telekom Malaysia is censoring the internet prior to GE13 I'm not a usual fearmonger, or a person who panics easily--yet you friendly local tech evangelist has a warning for Malaysian users out there. Unifi is censoring the internet in the run up to the hotly contested GE1--and that's what the data suggest. Y...
• Political parties don't know how to engage "There are many ways to reach out to the public, both political parties have a lot of space in Malaysia... It is unlikely we will have a debate, we need to engage with the people, the opposition will engage with people," - Caretaker Prime Minister Dato' S...
• Malaysia Data Center aspirations A bernama report a couple of days ago mentioned that Malaysia was 'well-positioned' to be a world class preferred hub for data centers: KUALA LUMPUR, April 18 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is well-positioned to be a world-class preferred hub as a data center tha...
• Why is Malaysia trailing Singapore, Taiwan, Korea A lot of people ask why Malaysian has fallen behind countries like Korea, Taiwan or Singapore in terms of our economic development. The answer most politicians give is corruption--but there's hardly any data to suggest that's a big issue--at most corr...
• Malaysiakini twitter account hacked Sorry for inconvenience! let us manage your twitter account from now on,Untuk semua , For All, Wei Ren Ren, Ellowrukkum - SarkasSiber — malaysiakini.com (@malaysiakini) April 27, 2013   In what appears to be an escalating amount of cyber-att...
• F-Secure hackathon result F-Secure recently had a Hackathon in Malaysia, with the grand prize being a dinner with Miko Hyppönen. Miko is sort of like the Mick Jagger of Computer Security, Miko also  made international news in 2011, when he tracked down and visited the authors of t...
• Government Network used to download porn : Privacy is dead Just how private are your searches...turns out they aren't private at all. The wonderful people at Torrentfreak did an amazing piece of investigative journalism today. Upset over the passing of CISPA, they decided to do an internet check on how active ...
• Pitchin.my Crowdfunding success in Teach a Child to Read A couple of months back, I wrote a short post about a Malaysian project that was successfully funded on kickstarter. Today, I can proudly say that Malaysians continue to surprise me in untold ways. Pitchin.my is the Malaysian kickstarter, and recently ...
• Datuk Maglin Dennis D'cruz in Klang : The non-updating Minister So it's official. Datuk Maglin D'Cruz will compete in N.48 Kota Alam Shah in Klang. Sadly this is true. I never liked Datuk Maglin, he's the Deputy Information Communications and Culture Minister that was looking at ways to 'control' social media. I wo...
• Maxis announces LTE support for iPhone 5 Maxis announced that their network now supports LTE on the iPhone 5, which is a bit strange to me. Initially the MCMC announced that the telcos awarded the LTE frequencies were given band 7 of the spectrum--which wasn't compatible with the iPhone 5. ...
• Anwar may have changed Malaysia, but Mark, Larry and Sergey changed the world If Pakatan win the next election, I would recommend that they award the title of Tan Sri or at least Dato' to the following: Larry Page and Sergey Brin: Co-founders of Google, who own both the video sharing site Youtube, and the blogging service Blogg...
• Malaysiakini goes free from 17th April for GE13 Got a note from Malaysiakini today, for all you stingy-porkers out there who read all the malaysiakini news reposted by various parties, but never really paid for the subscription--here's some good news. Malaysiakini will go free from 17th April onward...
• My BN Spam SMS collection       In the past 6 months, I've received more than 20 political SPAM sms' from the Barisan Nasional Yakini BN campaign, various political surveys and two from my local MP from PAS (Dr. Siti Mariah Mahmud). Now obviously, I'm expecting the spam rate to...
• How many FAKE followers does Najib have on twitter? A Social Media Analytics firm recently reported that nearly 50% of Justin Bieber followers on Twitter--were fake. This meant that nearly 18 million followers on Justins twitter account either belonged to no 'real' person or belonged to a spam account--and...
• Malaysian Scientist don't believe in Evolution? Previously I wrote about a great report from MASTIC that surveyed the perception of the Malaysian public regarding Science and Technology. What I failed to mention or rather what I 'chose' not to mention at the time was a specific portion of the report th...
• Malaysian Public Opinion of Science and Technology I recently discovered a really good study conducted by the MASTIC in Malaysia to determine Public Awareness of Science in Malaysia. The study was conducted every 2 years from 1998 till 2008, which gives us 5 really great data sets to determine not just ...
• Malaysian Education System : Seriously flawed GTP report In conjuction with the release of the Government Transformation Project Annual report, the Star today reported: The only question left to ask is what the hell are the guys over at the GTP smoking? A very quick reading of the GTP report reveals the ...
• MCMC screw up press release So after the furore over the Malaysian Insider article that wrongly accused the Government of using spyware on its citizens, the MCMC rightly issued a press statement denouncing the article. Unfortunately, even the MCMC has to do some reading up a bit ...
• Malaysian Cyberwar: Is it an external war or is it civil A really piece written by Asohan Aryaduray on DigitalNewsAsia some time back talked about how the CyberWar between Malaysia and the Philippines was going on, and how he wanted government agencies to step up the security of our digital assets (or at least ...
• Malaysian government using spyware against citizens? No, not really. I've been pretty busy the past few months, and my post count has been pretty low, and although I just returned from a 2 week trip abroad and am now flushed full of work, I decided to burn a bit of the midnight oil today because the Malaysian Insider compl...
• Is the MCMC going to 'monitor and control' or is it going to 'censor' A week ago, I wrote about the MCMC was planning to 'monitor and control' the internet, but just today I looked at my RSS subscription and notice that the Malay version of the press release used completely different words. While the English version of t...
• MCMC looking to 'control' social media at GE13: A worrying trend Bernama (an official government news channel) yesterday reported that the MCMC is "looking at suitable methods to monitor and control the use of social media in the 13th General Election (GE13)". Deputy Information Communications and Culture Minister Datu...
• code.org : All kids should learn to code Should we teach our kids to code? At the moment coding and programming are not part of the Malaysian school curriculum. Probably about time we change that....
• Malaysian parents don't want Kids to do science This is so true. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is probably the most famous astrophysicist  on the planet, and of late he's been the face of science education in America. He's got the coolness of Jay-Z mixed with the lovability of Bill Cosby and the intelligence ...
• PSY Penang: Are you ready for BN audio analysis Are you ready for PSY? or are you ready for some PYSICS? Well, that's too nerdy even for me. The reality is that if you want to know whether penang-ites said a big 'NO' or 'YES' when Najib asked them if they were ready for BN? The answer doesn't lie wi...
• Are Free Public WiFi initiatives safe? Or do they pose a Health Risk? Techdirt recently reported on how Canadian Schools are Banning WiFi based on bad science, and I was appalled by the complete lack of science we have operating in the minds of these clueless parents. No doubt they're well-intentioned but their complete and...
• LGBT Movies Ban in Malaysia This is a bit of old and stale news, but in April of 2012, the Information Ministry released a 'directive' to ban all movies or films that featured gay characters. In their defence, the Ministry did later clarify that their facebook post wasn't a direct...
• Undersea Cables in Malaysia : The Need for infrastructure A good friend and regular reader (or so I hope) of this blog sent me this link last week. It's a really nifty chart of all the undersea cables in the world. Now, for those who don't know what undersea cables are, they're basically the huge data cables tha...
• Samsung ATIV Smart PC Alright, so my first sponsored post. Although it's not much, somebody gotta pay the bills, and as long as that somebody isn't me -- that's awesome.Technically this isn't my first sponsored post, I wrote a post some time back about Unotelly, but this is ...
• Is America Building the Death Star -- Not really The White House has a "We the People" website where any member of the US public can submit a petition.If the number of people supporting the petition exceeds 25,000 then the White House will at the very least respond. While for the most part, the petition...
• Customer Complaints on Malaysian Telcos -- Disconnected Foreigner A couple of days ago, a reader of the blog wrote a rather long comment on a post I wrote about writing to TM's CEO to restore my Unifi service. The comment detailed out a long horrific story of a foreigner in Malaysia trying to get decent broadband. I fel...
• MACC says Facebook at work is Corruption According to last weeks Star, MACC deputy chief commissioner Datuk Sutinah Sutan was reported to have said that Civil servants and staff of government-linked companies (GLCs) surfing social media or engaging in personal matters during working hours may be...
• Are TNBs new electric meters rigged to charge higher There's been a huge controversy over the newly installed digital Electric meters by TNB, with consumers from all walks of life raising hell over their the perceived rise of their utility bills ever since they've installed thenew meters. USJ State assembly...
• And your Default Unifi Password is... Many folks seem to be stuck with their Unifi Passwords. It's actually quite simple. For the most part, most Shops and Restaurants that provide Free Wi-Fi via Unifi don't change their Router Password allowing easy access for a nefarious intruder to logo...
• Celcom launches LTE in Malaysia Coming just days after an announcement from Maxis, Celcom is looking to launch their own LTE network. I really don't understand what all the fuss is about, only a handful of phones in the market will actually be able to 'enjoy' the faster speeds of LTE, b...
• Selangor Cyber Cafes made to retrieve personal data Goldfries today reports that Selangor Cyber Cafes were given new regulations to make them 'healthier'. Among the new regulations put in place were: Of course the most shocking bit of regulation that mandated the use of monitoring software to be ins...
• Why the SKMM Rm200 smartphone rebate is a bad idea The Malaysian Communications And Multimedia Commission (MCMC) or better known by its bahasa acronym SKMM, has recently announced that the government will be offering a 'rebate' of RM200 of a list of 'selected' smartphones for youthsaged 21 to 30 years o...