D + 2 DAYS

D + 2 Days. In case there was a war, a few decisive battles would have been fought by now. In cyberspace where things move at the speed of light, maybe we have overestimated the opposition capabilities.

The only explanation is that our Anti-Cyber Babudom is sleeping. I have not had any DDOS attack ( Denial of Services Attack being the easiest one). I, overconfidently and defiantly, also left my Modem (a D-Link ADSL II Router* for the help of hackers) on throughout overnight so that my IP address does not change and I get hit. No Joy.

    I know about rumours that youngsters can bring down my system in no time. Hats off to them. While the Chinese and Pakis have a decent cyber Warfare cell going, we are sleeping. Perhaps it is another "turf war" and as usual we Indians are sitting on our asses.

        Why does no take the bait? Simple. The Cyber Killer Babudom have no reasonable knowledge of capabilities or capabilities. Of course, they can order / get Board Of Inquiries, Court Of Inquiries and Summary of Evidences ordered, but can only hide behind their law -books and the might of a bureaucracy and spread Canards and misinformation.

      They will of course not allow the Army to use its vast infrastructure, knowledge, intelligence and organisation to have a Cyber Warfare Cell. Why? Because the Army will control it and the idiot "Blind Men of Hindustan" want control.


   My contention remains :-

     (a)      Stop trying to run the Army.

    (b)      As long as personnel follow simple rules and cannot be hacked easily, stop telling us what to do. Tell us what not to do and we will tell our personnel to do so (as long as it is logical).

   (c)     If you are telling us what to do, also please tell us on what basis you are telling us not to do something. Duff logic that "it will impact National Security" is like saying Kasab was a super weapon. We don't believe you much any longer.




I have been dropping wide hints on how to hack me and prove the capability. For Example, I have told you

    (a)      I have a Original (non-pirated) Operating System. Which kind and how many bits OS it is*, you should be able to find out. Fact remains that it is automatically patched.

    (b)     Original Office 2007/ 2010 Professional (hopefully cannot be hacked and perhaps that is worth the price. It is of course; a wasted Rs 7400/-, quite redundant now since Armed Forces Personnel are no longer allowed to work at home.

   (c)     Paid Antivirus.

  (d)     One of the better known Firewall.

  (e)      No pirated Games on my system.

   (f)     No Torrent Files / Downloads. If at all I have to download anything I use Ubuntu which is on a separate partition.

   (g)    Browsers used are Google Chrome (preferable), Safari (sometimes), Firefox and rarely IE-9.0.***** . Browsers are generally patched automatically and manually.

  Now pls let me know my vulnerabilities. If my computer is not easily vulnerable, if I take all precautions, if I don't post whatever I am told not to post on Facebook, why should I be denied Facebook.

PS. I am not much of a Fan of Facebook and Orkut and maybe visit the page once a month. Even then, I'll not allow faceless clowns to dictate what I can do or what I cannot.

Remember :-

          When Gutenberg started printing the Bible, people wanted to ban the presses.

         When the Gramophones and later the cassettes came out, record companies wanted to ban the same.

         When  E-Mail came, Govt refused to budge and e-mail is still not an official way of mail.

         Online newspapers are a threat to traditional newsprint. They would have strongly condemned the "Internet" had they not been so horrible enmeshed in competition, oneupmanship, mediocrity  and cannot see beyond tomorrow's edition.

G'Bye For Now.