Dravidian

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by Dravidian 7y ago
China is setting a dangerous precedent for humanity as a whole. Not caring about what's happening in China is not caring about humanity at all. Whats different from the attrocities committed by organised terror like ISIS when compared
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by Dravidian 7y ago
It went from hilarious to dangerous,when democracy in the country itself is under threat.
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by Dravidian 7y ago
Egypt surely deserves an applause for keeping archeology separate from prominent religious sentiments & capitalising it in the tourism Industry. India had all the potential to do the same, considering it is home to at-least half dozen c
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by Dravidian 7y ago
My username is not to project any ideology as superior, but to project my identity of the civilisation as it has come into threat lately. I will refrain from making any comments on your user name though.
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by Dravidian 7y ago
Governments at odds with archeology to protect the origin story of the country is common across the world. In India, as recent as latter part of this decade archeologists found gold mine of evidence for >2100 year old Tamil civilization
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by Dravidian 7y ago
Beware that Indian companies can hand over your data to Indian agencies anytime without any court order[0]. [0]: https://m.slashdot.org/story/350062
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by Dravidian 7y ago
I presume, most readers if HN would know Bangalore. 'Karnataka election 2018: Rider for freebies - swear in the name of god that you'd vote for me'[1] [1]: https://m.timesofindia.com/city/bengaluru/ka
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by Dravidian 7y ago
I've seen religious tactics applied effectively for this, The potential voter is asked to swear over a religious artifact after receiving the money (bribe). e.g. For Hindu voters, a plate with oil lamp, an idol, a mixture of auspicious
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by Dravidian 8y ago
Apple was part of the PRISM program. If their integrity on privacy is true, they why lie about the PRISM program? What assurance do we have that Apple isn't part of PRISM or similar program anymore. Apple as a hardware company,privacy
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by Dravidian 8y ago
That's because Skype is soon becoming the defacto VoIP for Indian govt communication & guess what's the authentication? Yup Aadhaar! More over Azure is the cloud storage provider for all govt data moving forward. So not only B
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by Dravidian 8y ago
Not just SBI,I bet every nationalized bank in India has pathetic security. I've worked with some of them & I will say that if you want to sleep peacefully don't keep your money in a nationalised Indian bank; unfortunately pri
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by Dravidian 8y ago
>Apple proves that does not have to be the case. Apple was part of the PRISM program. Apple is a hardware company from the start, their strategy has been fixed long before other Internet companies figured the value of customer data. Thei
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by Dravidian 8y ago
India's telecom authority released a consultation paper asking whether OTT (Over the top - a stupid term telecos came up with when VoIP & IM took away their profits) players should be regulated[0] Jio telecom, owned by India's
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Self serving Indian telecos want chat interception(tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2 points by Dravidian 8y ago|1 comments
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by Dravidian 8y ago
No,stating opinions based on factual information on the present Indian govt.
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by Dravidian 8y ago
They needn't decrypt, only negligible population use End to End encryption. They can do mass surveillance with the support of ISP; may be some of the ISP's objected to their surveillance requests & hence blanket permission to
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by Dravidian 8y ago
To western readers clicking on the above 'opindia' article, it is a right-wing media outlet like 'Breitbart'. It is well known to propagate fake news in support of the ruling right wing political party.
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by Dravidian 8y ago
Atleast in developed countries individual rights are well enforced, so NSA atleast requires permission from secret court & Australian anti-encryption law at least was passed in their parliament (or equivalent). In India govt just used a
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by Dravidian 8y ago
Using cloudflare DNS over ISP is definetly better, but you definetly need VPN/ToR or both to stop govt snooping on your online activities.
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by Dravidian 8y ago
>national security is a sham Now the chinese would just need to infiltrate single infrastructure. What did the Indian govt do when it was revealed that the Huawei was siphoning off data from BSNL (state run ISP)? Other countries have sta
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by Dravidian 8y ago
This is much worst than what we saw in Australia, current Indian govt headed by right wing political party with track record of human rights abuses have passed this order without passing through Parliament using a loop hole in the IT ACT. T
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by Dravidian 8y ago
When, a human such as Gandhi is worshipped especially in an era when factual history is plausible; his shortcomings would definitely be contended with. There is no doubt that he's a tactician & along with great thinkers of that per
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by Dravidian 8y ago
Correct.Google reacted the same way as other companies did for PRISM. But they didn't know that their data was also accessed via other means & they took action to prevent it.
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by Dravidian 8y ago
You're correct. But in my opinion the innate californification of Apple & systemetic PR helping itself to project as saviour of privacy has prevented the privacy enthusiasts from putting Apple through same rigor as we do for Google
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by Dravidian 8y ago
You're correct. But I feel that the innate californification of Apple along with systemetic PR showing Apple to be saviour of privacy is stopping privacy enthusiasts from putting Apple into same rigor as we do for Google, Facebook.
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by Dravidian 8y ago
Guys, please don't be so naive to forget Apple was indeed part of PRISM program. If Apple gets free chit because they said they didn't know about the program, then so does Google & Facebook. IMO, any multi-billion $ company wi
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by Dravidian 8y ago
Indian government mandates original information to be filled in RABT else the domain registrar can cancel your account. And since GST, if you register a domain you are supposedly a business owner and need to provide a GST number mandatorily
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by Dravidian 8y ago
Their point of Aadhaar being secure is only based on the data being encrypted with RSA public-key cryptography. They are totally obvilious to other threat vectors. Their specifications state that the vendor should ensure end-to-end encrypt
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by Dravidian 8y ago
I appreciate the guts of the researchers, Iam quite sure that they will be under immense political pressure to contain the results.
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by Dravidian 8y ago
History is 13.5 billion years old, till now.

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