What a weekend it has been, for sure ! The digerati of Malaysia, and the world, were ready for the much delayed launch (over 2 years !) of YES, YTL Communications’ entry into the broadband space after being granted a license to operate a WiMAX network by MCMC. Fueled by months of pre-launch publicity, a series of human story TVCs and a pre-launch event with some selected bloggers. It all came to be that on 6pm of November 19th, 2010,...

The big tech (and privacy !) news of yesterday was the exposure of a second super administrator access to Telekom Malaysia’s Unifi (HSBB) service. First discovered by rizvanrp, and posted to lowyatt.net, it exposes the existence of a second level of access, and how to trivially guess the username and password used to access it. As expected, there was an outcry from Unifi users (all 1,700 of them) about this possible invasion of...