Over the past few years, the Information Security (IS) scene in the country increasingly sees young guys and girls actively participating and attending the many big and small conferences (or Con as the community would like to call them) across the country. For most youngsters IS begins as a hobby or passion and once bitten by the hacking…
Prediction of events using machine learning has been here for sometime with us. Super computers are now routinely imported and used in weather predictions and climate modelling. There are a few IT companies in India who earn their money by developing algorithms for foreign venture capitalists to identify better investment prospects. Is Data sovereign…
First – A Little Walk Down History Lane I started an Internet based gift delivery service in 1994/95 and ran it until about 2000 (Pacific Gift Service) it was making a profit from day one because e-commerce, GMV, and the unicorn business had not yet been invented. I had great ideas much before any of…
Pic courtesy: pixabay.com The information age and globalisation two intertwined phenomena that symbolises the 21 st century. To students of Infowar that has till date been used to the black and white delineations present in conventional battlefields, the battle zones are ill defined. The present scenario opens up a bewildering array of information that makes it…
The European Union, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; their democratic values, free market economies, free press etc widely symbolised the West and globalisation for the world at large. Even in this grouping the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant world (WASP) was seen as a class apart and the UK although a part of Europe, was always distinct…
Is this a story of vengeance – All the circumstances point to the suspicion that the Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC) has taken revenge by (apparently) leaking the ‘Censor Print’ of the Hindi movie “Udta Punjab” (IMDB). The CBFC says no but I don’t think even a two year old will believe their…
Why I would not back up a cyber command seems a presumptuous title, as after all I am a mere citizen and retired soldier. Another retired officer from my alma mater NDA recently told me over beer, that we were child labour and our DNA cannot change having been in uniform from the teens. But…
Pic courtesy moonwolves.wordpress.com ‘Off with his head’ The Queen of Hearts shrieks the phrase several times in the story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. While serving in the Army, I have been witness to this phenomenon several times. They initially banned mobile phones, then mobile phones with cameras, now smartphones; interestingly they never reverted any of the previous bans….
‘When sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander’, the average man takes umbrage at this injustice. The ethic of reciprocity is a universal law in all cultures. We have seen that the Americans do not permit any hardware or software not from firms of American origin to be part of their classified networks. The Russians and…
Pic courtesy: Wikimedia.org As a taxpayer shouldn’t we pay the entire defence budget to the USA or Russia to defend our borders? Now that should save the national exchequer all the financial woes of OROP and in one fell swoop do away with corruption in arms sales. Can national security be outsourced ? Now this is a…
