Bharat Rakshak

tarun

This whole e-filing/e-TDS business reminds me of Muhammed Bin Tughlak. Very modern, I mean. Back in the days when they put out an RFP about which format to use, some of us wrote gravely worded comments about the perils of proprietary formats. Little did we know that the eyetee dept's XML files woul...

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geeth wrote:
PAN already serves that purpose for all things financial.
It doesn't..There are duplicates and its genuineness cannot be verified from the database

Why not ?
-Tarun

tarun

Guys, This card is gonna be the Mother of all cards...in future you will asked to quote this number in anything and everything you want to do...and all will be well networked - in the sense that to find out what the person holding card No. 12345678910 did, they have to just type the number and it w...

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vera_k wrote:^^^
All the hardware and software in the central systems should not cost more than $10M over 3 years..

+1 Duh! similar ballpark estimate. Why exactly do you think rollout would cost additional money though.
-Tarun

tarun

Tanaji & Tarun -- I personally feel that the proposed budget is less compared to the goal set. But thats my personal opinion. There are many firsts in this project. To provide a query response SLA of 5 secs for almost a million transactions at peak from a backend database of 1 billion, you wud ...

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Tanaji wrote:The real question is whether the UID is worth the budget it has been given

+1 Tanaji. I got the same feeling reading the description of very limited goals of NUID project and the massive budget it has.

tarun

If we aren't ready for cyberwar, we will lose the next war http://www.dnaindia.com/opinion/column_if-we-aren-t-ready-for-cyberwar-we-will-lose-the-next-war_1447690 The article doesn't add any value to the discussion here I am afraid. The DDM catches on a bit slow to the news until some vendor feeds...

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I bugged my friends a lot with many questions. Let me know if you have any that you are trying to find answers from. For starters:- 1. Where is the guarantee that the UID card cannot be duplicated and mass produced. Whatever today's technology can produce can be cracked with tomorrow's technology f...

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All other CTs are plain nonsense and go against the spirit of security. If you cannot trust that judicial process, buy yourself a tinfoil hat and please stop repeating the same litany over and over again -- it serves no real purpose. Ofcourse there has never ever been miscarriage of justice ( as on...

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Tarun, this is the second time I'll tell you this: The terrorists from Pakistan (that attacked us on 26/11) used BBs to communicate. It is essential for the Govt. to be able to snoop upon any BB user. The key is to establish norms for who is allowed access to such private communication. All other C...

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chose to make everything public, which actually backfired because security of comms is one of BB's selling points. I think there is nothing to backfire.. How can possibly backfire to GOI or HM? Nothing backfires on the babus they get their regular quota of chai-biscoot anyway. It backfires on our c...

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^^^ You never know whether its a buzz or there are some realistic plans to use the latest technologies. Only time will tell. Time doesn't tell anything, the dude moves about preaching to the choir and avoiding tough questions from technologists by refusing to engage wherever tough questions are bei...

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Neshant wrote:Wow the guy's vision is far reaching

I hope it was sarcasm, see the casual use of the latest buzz words like cloud computing thrown in.
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tarun

Got this from http://www.freehacking.net Holy Shit!!! Take off this link at once. Look at what the url says...and look where it leads. And it asks for your entire email id and password. Not sure if its wise divulging such sensitive things to a website which openly promotes hacking! Dmurphy, have yo...

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What sort of idiots built a process involving Windows machines for programming the PLCs used with SCADA systems. The MNC vendors who come up with this sort of in-secure processes must be suitably blacklisted and heads need to roll in the bureaucracy who have hired a massive army of incompetents at t...

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ramana wrote:A Gupta, How much to create website to host TSPA atrocities? We can find out hosting costs in India and US. Might even get it media status. Say a group of five-ten members volunteering their efforts.

Ask Shiv to connect you to me.
-Tarun

tarun

Pardon my ignorance but whats an RoP ?

tarun

What Indian Govt/Army organizations must learn from other's mistakes, its not about HP but any large IT consulting organization even the homegrown ones, once outsourced to, they all exercise a lock-in on your infrastructure which can be very difficult to shake http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/08...

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Indian IT services companies cannot afford to keep the app hosting and app maintenance piece separate anymore as CC is going to blur that boundary in terms of service. It will all be in a single package with Infra cost built into the app usuage and maintenance cost. Unfortunately most of them are a...

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For Indian IT, cloud computing can be the next step in the evolution of delivering services entirely out of India. But the challenge is that it takes a massive amount of investment to build out the infrastructure necessary for cloud computing. I don't think the GOTUS will allow this, due to securit...

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Pratyush wrote: What was lacking, which prevented the development of Musket manufacturing in the Sikh empire.

Hard pressed for time and always under siege perhaps.
-Tarun

tarun

IT type questions should be pursued in the Tech forum. Thanks, ramana With all due respect the technology questions have a bearing on the discussion on how exactly can the intelligence agencies practice lawful interception. The problem with bureaucracy of India has been vendor driven tech knowledge...

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Thomas Kolarek wrote: Blackberry Security Paper -
Blackberry Security Paper

Thanks for the link. So any idea how Blackberry can backdoor PGP as described on page 20
-Tarun

tarun

We need a basic understanding of security requirements for banking per Basel 2 norms. Pardon my ignorance but it appears to me that Basel 2 norms don't have anything to do with security but rather to do with capital adequacy and quantifying risk and its management. http://www.stockmarketsreview.com...

tarun

PS: Here's an RBI circular (Sep 2009) on the Fraud Risk Management System in place. Hope it enhances your understanding of why procedures are evolving all the time. Its a document on dealing with fraud post-facto and mostly fraud due to lack of electronic clearing in near realtime using forge-able ...

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Surya wrote:If not then I will sit back and watch

+1

tarun

With your kind permission, I will let you persist with these thoughts and decline further conversation. There cannot be a discussion in the absence of knowledge. Sure lets end it here but I need to have the last word here for the benefit of other forum visitors and for the sake of completeness. 1. ...

tarun

Not sure what you're intending here but I think you are suggesting a website as a front-end to a National Registry. It's a good idea -- am sure we'll get there in time. btw, what percentage of this mobile working population re-register their vehicles as per law? How can information being entered on...

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PS: Do you know how much is lost to banking fraud in this country? Please take a guess. I'll let you have three days. Do these security measures really prevent fraud is the more important question. I am not against security improvements where it helps the market for e.g. online CNP transactions req...

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Surya wrote:Seriously there is a lot more GDP lost due to cricket, religious cermonies, bandhs, protests , surfing BR etc.

That is an evasive argument very similar to more people die in car accidents than due to terror attacks in India so we should stop worrying about terror attacks.

-Tarun

tarun

GOI does not want the certificates nor does it want to launch a MITM attack. All it wants is an ability is an ability to decrypt BB Messenger. Implementing the first to do the second is massive overkill and BB will never agree and will cause huge issues for normal functioning. There are other simpl...

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Tarun, I am afraid you're either not familiar with the online banking system or have been a victim of a bad banking experience. Switch to another provider, use your passport for ID proof, and get a driving license. Next, even if you stay with a friend, get a franked agreement (worth Rs. 50) that pr...

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Tarun, could you explain for my sake, in brief points, how we will forgo any % points of GDP growth by accessing BB codes? Folks using BBs should not be complaining as much as companies providing them are, right? Having a pervasive security security circus mindset is what is making us lose a few %a...

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Internet in TFTA European countries and even Australia is majorly dial up. So much for India being bad in advanced Internet penetration. What is the source of your data it doesn't appear to be correct. http://www.internetworldstats.com/dsl.htm It is not in anyway relevant what their state of Intern...

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Care to elaborate on the access to Banking or Internet in India. Most banks in India provide internet banking and the fact is that they are very well connected to Mobile network. Every transaction I do on internet is confirmed immediately by SBI using SMS and in fact I need to enter a password prov...

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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/27/this_week_at_war_their_own_private_internet In addition to standard computer "hygiene" (anti-virus software and firewalls) If they need to run anti-virus on military computers and firewalls then they are already on the losing side. Ugh! appa...

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National security overrides most of these concerns. Not in the region No wonder access to Banking or Internet in India is in the state it is today, thanks to expensive monitoring equipment at ISPs and overwhelming financial regulation apart from the usual rent seeking and massive barriers to entry....

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Why is RIM stalling India when they give away to KSA? Is it the perceptionof India being a pushoever? Teh Mumbai terrorists were using Blackberries per the reports. Indians have an expectation of privacy which may not be true of authoritarian states like China/KSA etc, if the Indian corporates trus...

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biswas wrote:Why do we have to re-educate them? Is it not for the best if they remain in their delusions?

Worldview of peoples hostile or friendly should be shaped by us as we show them the un-varnished truth.

tarun

Sridhar, If there was no legit way to obtain an EVM so it had to be obtained whichever way it was obtained. Nothing would prevent politicians determined to alter election results from atleast being able to obtain an EVM in a similar way. There is a need to differentiate between the intent to disrupt...

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