instead of catching criminals and keeping law and order situation under control why
pakistani cops are doing this
: Indian authorities and computer specialists have traced many cases of hacking of Indian Internet sites to Pakistan, the head of the country’s federal police said on Wednesday.
“Quite a few of hackers can be traced to ISPs (Internet service providers) in Pakistan,” CBI director R K Raghavan told a seminar on Internet security in the Capital. Raghavan said it would be difficult to nail hackers who broke into computer systems without help from Pakistani law enforcers.
“One wonders what kind of cooperation we will get...” he said, but did not elaborate. Indian industry officials say hackers broke into at least 635 Indian Internet sites last year.
“GForce,” a group of anonymous hackers whose members write slogans critical of India and its claim over Kashmir, have owned up to several instances of hacking of Indian sites run by the Indian government, private companies or scientific organisations.
Dewang Mehta, president of India’ National Association of Software and Service Companies, said the lack of uniform laws against cybercrimes involving abuse of computer systems made prosecution of cross-border hackers difficult.
Last year, India passed a landmark digital law that makes hacking, spreading of viruses and illegal financial transactions over the Internet punishable. It became the 12th member in a small club of nations with digital laws.
Meanwhile, government employees are astonished over a message that flashes across their monitors when ever they try to log on to a pornographic site on the Internet. “www.erotica.com. This page is not worth viewing. Let us do something better. Jai hind.” The message started appearing a couple of days ago at some of the ministries of the government.
The babus are more surprised than shocked. In a particular ministry, the officials called up colleagues as they discovered that their Internet had been “censored.” Calls are being made between ministries to find out more about it. Nobody seems to know who did it, or why.
Fingers have been pointed at the National Informatics Centre, the Internet service provider to most government ministries. An NIC official handling the computer system of a particular ministry was aghast. He said there have been no written orders to block certain sites.
“It seems that certain sites have been blocked or certain words have been filtered to block the sites,” he said.
pakistani cops are doing this
: Indian authorities and computer specialists have traced many cases of hacking of Indian Internet sites to Pakistan, the head of the country’s federal police said on Wednesday.
“Quite a few of hackers can be traced to ISPs (Internet service providers) in Pakistan,” CBI director R K Raghavan told a seminar on Internet security in the Capital. Raghavan said it would be difficult to nail hackers who broke into computer systems without help from Pakistani law enforcers.
“One wonders what kind of cooperation we will get...” he said, but did not elaborate. Indian industry officials say hackers broke into at least 635 Indian Internet sites last year.
“GForce,” a group of anonymous hackers whose members write slogans critical of India and its claim over Kashmir, have owned up to several instances of hacking of Indian sites run by the Indian government, private companies or scientific organisations.
Dewang Mehta, president of India’ National Association of Software and Service Companies, said the lack of uniform laws against cybercrimes involving abuse of computer systems made prosecution of cross-border hackers difficult.
Last year, India passed a landmark digital law that makes hacking, spreading of viruses and illegal financial transactions over the Internet punishable. It became the 12th member in a small club of nations with digital laws.
Meanwhile, government employees are astonished over a message that flashes across their monitors when ever they try to log on to a pornographic site on the Internet. “www.erotica.com. This page is not worth viewing. Let us do something better. Jai hind.” The message started appearing a couple of days ago at some of the ministries of the government.
The babus are more surprised than shocked. In a particular ministry, the officials called up colleagues as they discovered that their Internet had been “censored.” Calls are being made between ministries to find out more about it. Nobody seems to know who did it, or why.
Fingers have been pointed at the National Informatics Centre, the Internet service provider to most government ministries. An NIC official handling the computer system of a particular ministry was aghast. He said there have been no written orders to block certain sites.
“It seems that certain sites have been blocked or certain words have been filtered to block the sites,” he said.
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