Controversial Information, Communication Technology Minister Supa Mandiwanzira digitally sneaked into China for high level government to government technological placements for the purpose of obtaining specialist hacking technologies, according to a latest report.
In another futile government cash blow up, Mandiwanzira sought to obtain methodologies of both barring and monitoring over the top freedoms.
The mission led to an endless trail in a plot to manipulate Zimbabwe’s network connections.
Targeted for this engagement were powerful social networks,WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter in that respective order of priority.
The evidence for Mandiwanzira’s dodger became evident in this week’s blocking of Whatsapp during the mass stay away on Wednesday. Phone networks were jammed and phone owners blocked from accessing the app.
The government can block the network, but they cannot eavesdrop into it due to the strong encryption set up thereon which makes it difficult for even the Whatsapp company itself to snoop-in. In April, WhatsApp rolled out end-to-end encryption for iOS and Android platforms—a security measure aimed at protecting messages from the prying eyes of cyber-criminals, hackers, “oppressive regimes,” and even the WhatsApp company itself.
When confronted this week, Mandiwanzira claimed he had nothing to do with Wednesday’s jamming of the social media platform WhatsApp.
He said such a move would mean that he had also participated in the purported shutting down of the country.
Mandiwanzira’s comments follow allegations by some sections of the society that Government Wednesday interfered with social platforms such as WhatsApp and Internet services to stop people from mobilising ahead of Wednesday’s “stayaway”.
Mandiwanzira said instead, his ministry had been under pressure since last year from all the network operators to ban social networks such as WhatsApp, Viber and Skype arguing that they were eating into their revenue collections.
“Since December last year, this ministry has been under immense pressure from mobile network operators in this country for us to ban over the top, services like WhatsApp, Skype, Viber and the like because the operators are claiming that these over-the-top services are eating into their revenue, and yet they have not spent any resource in building their networks,” said Mandiwanzira.
Mandiwanzira said Government has no intention to ban the use of social media in Zimbabwe, but said the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) had a responsibility of guarding against its abuse by some elements of the society.
“There are elements, which have been abusing social media by sending information to do with how to make bombs, how to kill, pornography and even child pornography and the regulator has a responsibility of warning people of such abuse of tools like social media,” said Mandiwanzira.
He said the fact that POTRAZ released its statement warning such elements against such acts of abuse on a day some sections of the society had called for a protest through the social media was a mere coincidence.
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Supa Mandiwanzira should be sanctioned from entering the UK. He holds bank accounts with Santander Huntingdon branch where his relatives vana Loveness are residents. Supa don’t think we don’t know whenever you come with you family for holiday and do your shopping while normal Zimbabweans are suffering at your inciting of violence towards mothers and their children while staying in their humble homes.You are a heartless and greedy being.
Just shows there is no democracy just communism like their chinese counterparts banning people from using anything except themselves
Supa Dupa running to China and China Masa running to Europe !
Just shows there is no democracy just communism like their chinese counterparts banning people from using anything except themselves
Supa Dupa running to China and China Masa running to Europe !
supa idya easy coz mangwana uchanyara nyika yasununguka hayo…..
Tichakutambisa Beny ari naughty
Tichakutambisa Beny ari naughty
Supa dai wadzikama zvako.Kwatava kuenda ndiko pedo.
Supa dai wadzikama zvako.Kwatava kuenda ndiko pedo.
Supa iwe, kurumbirire chinobururuka, ndiwe unoremba!