han total war -- they will use all the weapons at their disposal.
imagine a situation where the power grid, the banking grid, the telecom network, the water grid, air traffic control etc. are being controlled by han hackers.
the americans worry about this. fortunately, india's grids are primitive and hence relatively less vulnerable.
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From: S. Kalyanaraman
Date: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:07 PM
Subject: How Chinese hacked Google, and why India should worry
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From: S. Kalyanaraman
Date: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:07 PM
Subject: How Chinese hacked Google, and why India should worry
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This should be an object lesson to the people in governance in India to wake up to the imperative of Cyber Security. There is an ongoing debate about the enforcement of cyber security law of the country (Information Technology Act 2000) to EVMs, just as the cyber law is enforced for Bank ATMs.
Now the cyber security laws should be reviewed in relation to all aspects of governance, in the context of the newly coined idiom of e-governance.
Eternal vigilance if the price of liberty. We may have won Independence from the colonial regime, but do we have real swarajyam? This is the fundamental issue to be debated about Bharat, the democratic republic.
Congratulations to Claude Arpi for a brilliantly documented and incisive interview and journalistic investigation of a high order.
kalyanaraman
How Chinese hacked Google, and why India should worry
Claude Arpi
Last updated on: March 2, 2010 17:02 IST
The recent announcement by the United States giant search engine Google that it might withdraw from China made the headlines in world media. The Google decision highlighted the aggressiveness of the Chinese hackers who had been penetrating cyber fortresses like the Pentagon or the White House (as well as the PMO or the MEA in India!).
Claude Arpi spoke to Shishir Nagaraja, the co-author (with Ross Anderson) of The Snooping Dragon: Social malware Surveillance of the Tibetan Movement, published by University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in March 2009.
Shishir Nagaraja, currently associated with the Information Trust Institute of the University of Illinois (US), tells rediff.com, not only about the Google episode, but also his experience with the Office of the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala and the world of hackers, in general.
He believes that we have only seen the beginnings of the cyberwar, the 'war of tomorrow'. In the not-too-distant future, it will affect each one of us.
What according to you has happened with Google in China?
From what I could gather, they targetted some people connected to the Tibetan movement and some mainland activists.
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An interesting aspect of the case is that "Google hacker attack in China exploited a vulnerability in IE6. (Yes, you read it right: Google was using IE6.)"
See: Microsoft admits Explorer used in Google China hack
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