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Keeping your passwords safe

Time for a controversial statement: following the password guidelines on most websites does not make your passwords safer.

Wordpress and Plone security

We recently had two of the Wordpress sites that we host, overrun by spammers. While Wordpress is very popular, it's also not very secure, so it's a favourite target of hackers. That, and the way it allows plugins to change the code gives us the heebie-jeebies.

Red Bull King Of The Air scoring system

Every year in February, Red Bull holds a kitesurfing competition on Blouberg beach. They get 18 of the world's best kitesurfers together for 2 weeks and wait for near-gale-force winds. The riders regularly do 20m-plus jumps and they are scored on the height, technical skill and wow factor of the jumps. This makes for a spectacular, fast-moving event. Late last year we were approached to create a new scoring system for this year's competition.

Soul City Institute

The Soul City Institute for Social Justice (SCI) works to create a just society in which young women and girls are safe, and have the opportunities to enable them to reach their full potential.

Institute of Race Relations

The Insitute of Race Relations is a classically liberal think-tank promoting the ideas and policy solutions necessary to drive the investment and economic growth that will free South Africa’s people from unemployment, dependency, and poverty.

Helen Suzman Foundation

The Helen Suzman Foundation promotes liberal constitutional democracy and the rule of law. Their liberalism is grounded in Helen’s legacy, and draws from the history of liberal thought in South Africa.