ethiopia? why on earth would you go there..? Re-Blogged

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ethiopia? why on earth would you go there..?

This was the common response I received from people in Australia after telling them I was moving to Ethiopia. And it seems I’m not the only one who gets this kind of response. I’ve had some good friends from home recently visit and they too were faced with the same question. The thing is not many people know much about Ethiopia. Which led me to make the below list of things you definitely wouldn’t want to come to Ethiopia and see:

It’s not like Ethiopia knows how to make damn good coffee:
(it is the birthplace of coffee after all)

The tea is just as bad (so full of spices):

And the music scene is just so boring:

Actually the nightlife in Addis is pretty lack luster:

Foodwise – there’s way too much choice for a vegetarian:

And the restaurants – so common:

Then there’s the scenery – don’t get me started on the scenery – it’s clearly terrible:The churches are pretty standard:

And so inaccessible – they’re either carved out of rock underground or hidden in a cave at the very highest point on top of some very steep mountains:

Decorated with a few paintings here and there:Oh and the people don’t smile much:

The endemic animals aren’t that interesting either:

The basket weaving needs a bit more colour:

There is nothing cool about an active volcano and bubbling lava pit:

Or floating about on the most buoyant salt lake around:
Sulphur lakes are just so dull:

Speaking of lakes, this land locked countrys’ lakes are so uninspiring:

Particularly the hippos that lurk about:

The accommodation around the country is pretty much same same as everywhere:

And notorious for bad views:

The hiking is just as bad (so many wild flowers on the path):
You see such horrible things along the way:And my friends had a terrible time visiting:

So why on earth would you go to Ethiopia!
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Lily started in September 2013 in the basement of a UC Berkeley robotics lab, where Henry and Antoine built the first prototype using a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino.
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Ethiopian's Prime Minster Elected

His party elected Hailemarial Desalegn to continue as prime minster of Ethiopia for the next 5 years

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  – The fifth Ethiopian Parliament began its five-year term on Monday with a joint session of the two chambers of Parliament – the House of Federation and the House of Peoples’ Representatives. Just before the joint session, the House of Peoples’ Representatives voted to keep Hailemariam Desalegn as prime minister for a five-year term, a position he held for three years since the death of former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
Hailemariam was nominated by the ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Democratic Front (EPRDF), which swept 401 of the 447-seat parliament in the elections held last May while its partners filled the remaining 46 seats in the House of Peoples’ Representatives.
Hailemariam will soon present his cabinet to the House for endorsement.

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For hackers looking for fraud victims, few targets are as tempting as the data brokers that make a business out of assembling millions of people’s private information. That’s a lesson T-Mobile is learning now that its partnership with one such data collector, Experian, has resulted in the theft of 15 million T-Mobile customers’ private details.
The Hack




On Thursday T-Mobile revealed that hackers had breached Experian’s network and stolen a trove of T-Mobile’s data, which the carrier had sent to Experian to perform credit checks on potential customers seeking financing for phones or cellular plans. The data stolen from those 15 million victims includes their names, addresses, and birthdates, as well as encrypted social security numbers, drivers’ license ID numbers, and passport ID numbers. Both companies note that encryption may have been cracked by the intruders—Experian didn’t respond to a question from WIRED as to what sort of encryption was used. Finally, the two firms note that “additional information used in T-Mobile’s own credit assessment” may have also been breached, but neither responded to a request for comment on what that “additional information” entailed.

“I take our customer and prospective customer privacy VERY seriously. This is no small issue for us,” T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere wrote in a statement. “Obviously I am incredibly angry about this data breach and we will institute a thorough review of our relationship with Experian, but right now my top concern and first focus is assisting any and all consumers affected.”
Who’s Affected

Experian’s breach, according to the two companies, includes customers who had applied for financing as recently as September 16. But it stretches back just over two years. Experian has said it’s notifying all victims by mail, and offering them two years of credit monitoring. Anyone who believes their data was included in the breach can sign up for that monitoring here.

The danger in any breach of a data broker like Experian, of course, is that the company aggregates information on many millions of consumers for credit checks and marketing. The resulting hacker bullseye includes private data that goes well beyond any single corporate client’s consumers. Experian didn’t respond to WIRED’s request for further comment on whether other individuals’ data beyond the T-Mobile customers had also been accessed in its intrusion.
How Serious Is This?

As massive data breaches go, it could be worse: Experian and T-Mobile have both said that the hacked files didn’t include any credit card or banking data. Even so, the hoard of T-Mobile customer data can still be used for assembling profiles for identity theft.

Though the breach will no doubt ding the reputations of both companies, T-Mobile is taking pains to pin the blame squarely on Experian. “Experian has taken full responsibility for the theft of data from its server,” reads an FAQ on T-Mobile’s website. “Our vendors are contractually obligated to abide by stringent privacy and security practices, and we are extremely disappointed that hackers could access the Experian network.”

The theft of T-Mobile’s customer details is hardly the first time hackers have hit a data broker, as fraudsters hone their attacks on ever-more centralized repositories of personal information. Experian itself allowed a Vietnamese identity theft service to access more than 200 million customers’ data just last year. And the year before, hackers hit credit agency Equifax and tried to sell the credit history data of celebrities, politicians, and even first lady Michelle Obama.




This latest breach is unusual only in that Experian’s insecurity has dragged T-Mobile into its privacy scandal. Perhaps that corporate collateral damage can send a message to other potential partners of data brokers: If consumers can’t pressure data aggregators like Experian into securing their secrets, perhaps the consumer-facing companies who collect that information can.

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