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UIDAI ki gandee baat
Aadhaar continues to be in the news, more and more, louder and louder, all for the wrong reasons. The only people making noise in support of UIDAI is they themselves or those who have left themselves no choice because they have taken the route of blind subservience. (I was happy to see Mr Shatrughan Sinha…
Kudankulam Nuclear Plant – a cyber attack incident
India steps into the big league of nations which have had their critical infrastructure attacked – and the attack is publicly announced by a third party. The nation also lives up to it’s reputation of expertise in opacity, denial, obfuscation, double-speak. Oh yes, and that our bureaucrats and political leaders know best because we citizens…
Time to relook at Critical Information Infrastructure
Domain Name Registrar’s Bankruptcy Threatens 70,000 Domain Name Owners A new threat explodes in the digital India scenario, and it is not information warfare, or election influencing or cyber attacks from our “friendly neighbors”, but a sort of nuclear fallout. The liquidation of domain registrar Messrs net4 may result in the non availability of thousands…
Watching the Aadhaar daily soap
Aadhaar events, on a daily basis is like a horror show, or a TV soap .. start anywhere and you know what’s coming your way. Watch at your own peril.
The Need For Continuity in Policy Initiatives – Achilles Heel of India
When the British made architectures for governing India a land so vast of incredible variety in ethnicity and languages, the need to create a large and structured bureaucracy was a sine qua non. Our entire social milieu mired in caste was tailor made for this hierarachial rule based system and the much discussed Macaulay’s educational system…
Mining The New Oil – Data
Data the new oil, it was only a matter of time… Ever since the Snowden revelations; when the extent of the global surveillance grid run by the NSA was revealed; the world started taking precautions with the European Courts striking down principles of safe harbour. Countries like China, Russia, Brazil etc started tightening their laws and ensuring…