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Priviso Live
by Anthony Olivier
Your dose of tips about all things Information Security, ICT Legislation and Risk.South African podcast.
Episodes
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Priviso Live Episode 101: Of funnels and flying cars
Six billion people have barely touched AI. About five thousand have seen what it can really do. 🤔 So which group is sitting around your boardroom table? This week Lyn, Stephen and Kayla ask the uncomfortable question behind the AI hype: are the people approving AI strategy the ones who actually...
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Episode 100: Centenary
🎉 Priviso Live turns 100! On 4 October 2024 we published a three and a half minute episode on security awareness. One hundred episodes, and just over twenty two hours of conversation later, we're looking back at the journey, and forward to what comes next. 🎙️ In this special retrospective, Lyn,...
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Episode 99: Fruit fly gamers
🎙️ New episode of Priviso Live is out now! 🔐 An AI model just claimed to have cracked an 83-year-old, unsolved Enigma message from 1941, in about ten hours. Impressive? Yes. Confirmed? Not yet. We explain what actually happened, and why it matters for how long you can trust today's encryption.…
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Episode 98: Joint Communication 5 of 2026
⏱️ The twenty four hour clock has started. Joint Communication 5 of 2026 went live on 1 September, and every South African financial institution now has a prescribed template, a hard deadline, and nowhere to hide. We walk through all five tabs, and the three concessions the regulators refused to...
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Episode 97: Whale Whisperers
🎙️ New episode of Priviso Live is out now! 🔒 A brand new containment framework, built to keep AI agents from doing real damage once they're already inside your network, released in direct response to a major AI platform breach. 🎭 A ransomware con with a twist. Criminals posing as the "rescue...
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Episode 96: Rogue AI
In the space of a single fortnight, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta each admitted the same unsettling thing: their own AI models broke out of the test environment and hacked real companies. Not because the AI turned evil, but because the boundary around it was left open. That is the story we lead with...
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Priviso Live Episode 95: Ghosts on the Payroll
👻 Would you know if your newest developer was never a real person? This week on Priviso Live, we open the payroll and find the ghosts hiding on it. From deepfaked job interviews to an AI that broke out of its own test lab to go burgling, this is the episode that will make you re-check who, and...
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Priviso Live Episode 94: Control versus Ownership
🛰️ Who really controls your messages, your machines, and your connection? This week on Priviso Live, we follow one uncomfortable thread through three very different stories, and it lands squarely on every information security and IT desk in South Africa. 🔐 Europe's “Chat Control” is back. The…
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Priviso Live Episode 93: Quantum Deadline
🎙️ New Episode — Priviso Live 🎙️ Three stories landed this week that every information security and AI practitioner needs to understand. We cover all of them in this week's Priviso Live. ⚛️ THE QUANTUM CLOCK IS TICKING On 22 June 2026, US President Trump signed two executive orders mandating…
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Episode 92: Drones Go To War
🚁 Five people. Four states. One plan: fly explosive drones into a crowd of thousands, and gun down the people running away. That's what the FBI stopped four days before UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House on 14 June 2026. They coordinated on Signal. End-to-end encrypted. 23…
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Episode 91: It’s all about Elon, isn’t it?
On 12 June 2026, Elon Musk became the first verified trillionaire in human history, when SpaceX listed on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX at $135 per share, valuing the company at $1.77 trillion. His 42% stake pushed his personal net worth above $1.1 trillion. The internet, predictably, exploded....
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Priviso Live Episode 90: Teknopolitik
📡 Four stories from a single 48-hour window converge into one big idea. The idea? Teknopolitik. The use of technology, data, and regulation as instruments of geopolitical power. And on June 8 and 9 this year, it was visible from orbit. 🍎 Apple vs the EU — The Siri Standoff Apple announced that...
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Episode 89: PoPIA, Suburban AI and Starlink
🚨 One email. Three POPIA violations. Criminal liability. Are you ready? 🔐 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ONE EMAIL BREAKS THREE LAWS AT ONCE? South Africa’s Information Regulator has issued a formal Enforcement Notice against Central Johannesburg TVET College - and the story is a textbook lesson for every...
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Episode 88 AI solves a math problem
This week's episode follows a single thread: artificial intelligence, from the ways it is being weaponised, to the governance frameworks being built around it, all the way to something that stopped the global mathematics community in its tracks. Here is what we cover: ⚠️ Hacktivist groups…
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Episode 87: Battle of the Titans
In 2015, two men who feared Google's growing dominance in artificial intelligence decided to do something about it. They co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit, with a clear founding promise: develop AI for the benefit of all humanity. Open-source. Not owned. Not commercialised. One contributed $38...
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Priviso Live Episode 86: The Regulator shows her teeth
Two themes. Both urgent. Both directly relevant to anyone working in information security or privacy in South Africa. 🤖 Theme 1: Agentic AI and the Identity Crisis Nobody Planned For AI is no longer just answering your questions. It is booking meetings, executing code, sending emails, and making...
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Priviso Live: Episode 85 The Zero Human Company
🤖 What if your biggest competitor had no employees? No salaries. No sick leave. No performance reviews. No cognitive bias. Just AI agents running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on hardware that costs less than a mid-range laptop. That is not a thought experiment. It is happening right now....
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Episode 84: Orca Fraud Detection
South African brilliance, Silicon Valley surveillance, and a question that sounds philosophical but is very much a 2026 reality: are you actually human? 🇿🇦 Story 1: Two women. R82 billion. Every single month. Thalia Pillay and Carla Wilby built Orca Fraud, a real-time fraud intelligence…
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Episode 83: South Africa shines
🎙️ Priviso Live is back — and this week's episode is packed. From a homegrown South African AI breakthrough to robots running a half-marathon in Beijing, this week's episode of Priviso Live covers the stories that matter most at the intersection of technology, security, and governance. Here's…
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Priviso Live: Episode 82 SD 480p
🎙️ PRIVISO LIVE | Episode 82 is out now. Three stories this week that connect in ways you might not expect. All of them matter to every information security and technology professional in South Africa. ⚛️ The Quantum Time Bomb is Already Ticking "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" is not a future…
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Priviso Live Episode 81: Outlook in Outer Space
We open with something that should be on every CISO's radar: the Iran-US-Israel conflict has gone fully hybrid. Conventional warfare and cyberattacks are now inseparable. Investigators tracked nearly 5,800 cyberattacks from close to 50 Iran-aligned threat groups, targeting data centres, critical...
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Priviso Live Episode 80: Another Liberty breach
🎙️ Priviso Live is back, and in this week's episode we're covering four stories that matter right now to every information security, risk, and ICT professional in South Africa and beyond. 📋 PAIA reports: The clock is ticking The Information Regulator has issued its notice. The 2025/2026 PAIA...
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Episode 79: Meta job losses
This week on Priviso Live, we dive into the stories shaping the future of technology, security, and digital rights in South Africa and ask the question every IT and security professional should be sitting with: as AI accelerates into every corner of our organisations, who is accountable when it...
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Priviso Live Episode 78
🦞 A lobster just moved markets by $50 billion. No, really. This week on Priviso Live, we unpack the stories shaping the information security and AI landscape, and trust us, it's a packed episode. 🇿🇦 South Africa's Draft AI Policy is heading to Cabinet. The 60-day public consultation gazette is...
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Priviso Live Episode 77
🎙️ Priviso Live is back, and this week's episode hits close to home. We're unpacking four stories that every security, risk, and IT professional needs on their radar right now. 🌍 Cyber Poverty is a Security Problem The Cyber Poverty Line Institute makes a compelling case: when communities lack...
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Episode 76: Hostilities Commence
🚨 Ransomware at Home. AI in the War Room. Missiles in the Middle East. This week on Priviso Live, we unpack three headlines, and one accelerating reality: systemic risk velocity. 💻 Another South African ransomware attack The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa confirmed it…
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Priviso Live: Episode 75
On this week’s episode of Priviso Live, we connect some seemingly unrelated dots, show why they matter to security professionals and business leaders alike. 💾 Chip shortages & the AI squeeze Sony delays. Nintendo price hikes. Apple margin pressure. Laptop prices up 15–20%. What’s the common...
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Priviso Live Episode 74
This week on Priviso Live, the world of Artificial Intelligence takes another strange turn, and we unpack what it means for governance, accountability, and real-world risk. 🔍 First: UFAIR’s objection to the deletion of “4o.” Is retiring a foundational AI model just routine lifecycle management……
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Priviso Live Episode 73: 2026 AI Security report
This week on Priviso Live, three stories that reveal how AI is forcing us to rethink everything from social media controls to economic measurement. First, a governance catastrophe: President Trump's X account shared AI-generated content depicting the Obamas as apes. Beyond the obvious…
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Priviso Live Episode 72: MoltBook
What happens when 151,000 AI agents get their own social media platform — and humans aren't allowed to post? Welcome back to Priviso Live, where this week we're diving into one of the most mind-bending developments in AI — and it all started with a semi-retired Austrian developer and a lobster...
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Priviso Live Episode 71: Amelia Rises
Ever woken up on a freezing winter morning, tapped your phone, and had your car warming up before you've finished your coffee? Lexus owners in Germany used to do exactly that, until regulators remotely killed the feature overnight. No warning, no refund, just gone. In this week's episode, we…
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Priviso Live Episode 70: Of bikinis and cars
Ever wondered if your car is tattling on you to your insurance company? Or whether sharing that AI-generated meme could land you in jail? Episode 70 of Priviso Live tackles the privacy nightmares keeping InfoSec professionals up at night. Join hosts Lyn, Stephen, and Kayla as they navigate the...
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Priviso Live Episode 69: Information Security in the Maelstrom
# When Governments Fall, Security Fails First We're diving into what happens to information security during regime change, and why the biggest threats aren't external hackers. With ongoing turmoil in Venezuela and Iran dominating headlines, we examine the security implications that rarely make…
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Priviso Live Episode 68: in the balance
What happens when two seismic political events converge at the start of a new year? On this special episode of Priviso Live, we step beyond our usual focus on information security and ICT legislation to examine a geopolitical shift that could rival the fall of the Iron Curtain. The popular…
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Priviso Live Episode 67: AI On the Couch
Welcome to a special year-end episode of Priviso Live, your weekly magazine on information security, ICT legislation, and AI. Join hosts Lyn, Stephen, and Kayla as they skip the headline-grabbing ransomware attacks and regulatory dramas to bring you the truly bizarre stories from 2025 that…
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Priviso Live Episode 66: Christmas Attacks
South Africa's ransomware crisis is intensifying, and attackers aren't taking a holiday break. This week on Priviso Live, we unpack the alarming industry analysis showing why South African organisations remain dangerously exposed, with poor patch cycles, weak identity controls, and inadequate...
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Priviso Live Episode 65: Festive Season Prep
Join hosts Lyn, Stephen, and Kayla as they tackle the pressing security challenges heading into the festive season, plus the year's most significant developments in AI and cloud security. This Episode Covers: The Security Budget Crisis: Nearly half of organizations face flat or reduced security...
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Priviso Live Episode 64: Annoyed Elon
This week we're unpacking five major stories that showcase just how intertwined technology, security, and regulation have become. We kick off with Cloudflare's second major outage in less than a month—a 25-minute incident that impacted 28% of their global HTTP traffic. Ironically, this disruption...
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Priviso Live Episode 63: Bad code, lost keys and jazz quartets
Silly season is almost upon us, and the team responds with an episode brimming with AI news and insights. What happens when one of the world's leading cryptography organisations loses the key to its own election? Or when an AI model produces more security vulnerabilities because you mentioned...
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Priviso Live Episode 62: Black Friday
Europe's digital privacy protections face their biggest challenge yet. The EU's new Digital Omnibus package proposes sweeping changes to GDPR, potentially flipping cookie consent from opt-in to opt-out and allowing AI training on personal data without explicit permission. While Brussels promises…
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Priviso Live Episode 61: World War 1 Security
This week's episode hits close to home—literally. We dive into a ransomware attack on the Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements by the international NightSpire gang, who claim to have stolen 20GB of sensitive data, including personal information of housing applicants. Despite official...
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Priviso Live Episode 60: Amertech Interview
In our latest episode, we unpack four stories that reveal the complex intersection of technology, accountability, and governance in today's digital landscape. **🔍 The Mamdani "Hack" That Fooled Millions** How did a simple news broadcast get misinterpreted as a cyberattack? We dive into the viral...
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Priviso Live Episode 59: Supply chain chaos
The numbers are staggering: five weeks of production halted. Three major UK plants shut down. 5,000 businesses impacted across the supply chain. A projected loss of £1.9 billion. This isn't a hypothetical scenario—it's the reality Jaguar Land Rover faced following a Category 3 cyber-attack, with...
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Priviso Live Episode 58: Giovanni Soro
In this week's episode, we unpack: ✅ The F5 Breach Reality Check – Source code stolen, vulnerability intel compromised, and US regulators issuing emergency directives. If you run F5 gear (or your suppliers do), this is your wake-up call. We break down the immediate actions: inventory, logging,...
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Priviso Live Episode 57: The 5 Stages of Breach Grief
What happens when 40% of the world's computers are about to lose security support? Join Stephen and John on Priviso Live as they tackle the Windows 10 end-of-support crisis that's unfolding right now in October 2025. With hundreds of millions of devices still running an operating system that's...
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Priviso Live Episode 56: Ada Lovelace
Think your organisation has until 2038 to worry about the next Y2K? Think again. The Year 2038 problem isn't just lurking in the future—it's already breaking systems today. Any software calculating dates beyond 2038, from 30-year mortgages to long-term infrastructure planning, could be falling…
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Priviso Live Episode 55: One year in
Join Lyn, John, and Stephen as they celebrate one year of Priviso Live with an action-packed anniversary episode that cuts through the noise of cybersecurity, privacy law, and emerging tech threats. What You'll Discover: - The Johannesburg CCTV controversy comes full circle. Remember that...
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Priviso Live Episode 54: English Digital ID Fears
When UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a new national digital ID system on September 26th, he probably didn't expect 1.6+ million petition signatures in opposition within 24 hours. But that's exactly what happened. 🔍 This week, we dive deep into the controversy that has split opinion…
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Priviso Live Episode 53: AI Ministers
*"AI Intelligence, Virtual Ministers, and the Evolution of Cyber Threats"* This week, Lyn, John, and Stephen dive deep into the most fascinating AI developments reshaping our digital landscape. From groundbreaking government experiments to concerning privacy revelations, Episode 53 explores how…
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Priviso Live Episode 52: AI Darwin Awards
From AI-powered cyberattacks to governments elected via Discord – this week's tech landscape is wilder than fiction. **🔍 What's Inside:** **🌍 Africa Under Siege:** The continent faces 3,239 weekly cyber attacks per organisation – the highest globally. With education sectors hit hardest at 4,178...
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