Don’t block blogs
Posted on Jul 19th, 2006
Banning blogs, a big blunder by Roopinder Singh THE only thing worse than doing something wrong is to execute the deed ineptly. Some bureaucrats in the Government of India have managed to do both by stopping access to blogs on the Internet recently in the wake of the July 11 Mumbai bomb blasts. The word blog is an abbreviation of …
IT’s Achilles’ heel, security
Posted on Jul 5th, 2006
Cyber insecurity Human vulnerabilities are exploited for IT crimes by Roopinder Singh Security, or rather the lack of it in the cyber world, has come into focus again. National secrets have been leaking out at an appalling rate and supposedly secure computers have become more of cyber sieves than repositories of data. There has been a major leak of electronic …