Still didn't get it, C'da.
Why would it be posthumous, because he/she will be killed by the opponents, if he/she does help to track the email?
*** You answered that already. Besides finding out ruby bhuyan's e-mail server's
ID will not mean a darn thing as far as tracking down ULFA people. I am sure ULFA knows that too. So why should ULFA even think of taking revenge?
Or, is it because you think it is just impossible to track it down (not just the email per se, but the whereabouts of the heads of the ULFA) for a live person but only by a dead person with "divine" power?
*** None of that. I just threw that in, because it is customary to get a statue only after death, unless you are some megalomaniac. Of course I was being sarcastic Alpana. How did you miss that, having been on the receiving end of my sarcasm every now and then :-) ( my apologies though)?
It is extremely simple, for even a totally non-techie, to find out the iD of e-mail servers ( unless the poster takes steps to evade even that-- we have seen that happen right here in Assam net. But that too can be traced, just like we saw in Assam Net.)
Question is what would the Assam Police do with such an ID? Assuming it is a B'Desh based server, will they go shut it down? Or will they get B'Desh to
trace the phone number down from which the e-mails originate? Besides, the phone could be a cell phone. When I was in Kolkata last January, I was frustrated in finding an internet cafe near the guest house I stayed in. When I mentioned that, my classmate, who was in the next room, said "---not to worry, come to my room---" he plugged his cell phone in to his lap-top and voila--I had hook up with my mailbox.
Would B'dseh co-operate with giving such cell-phone info out? And even if they did, how will the police find the user? Several years ago, before India allowed cell phones in Assam, I heard people of Assam in border areas were using a B'Deshi cell-phone service.
Then again, nowadays you can buy wireless network detection devices for as little as maybe twenty dollars. So if you drive around with a detector, and find an active home or business wireless network, park your car, activate your lap-top, and you can use it to send out e-mails. What I don't know is if it is that easy or you need to detect the network ID and password -- thus have to be pretty IT savvy - a hacker I guess--, to get access to such a wireless network.
Do they have wireless networks in Guwahati these days? My guess would be yes. It is so very commonplace now. If not in Guwahati, they must be pretty common in IT hubs like Bangalore or Hyderabad.
Remember "--they are everywhere you know" :-)?
Another humorous thing was that the AP found out about rubybhuyan NOW. Heck we have had posts from rubybhuyan and arunmahanta before that since when? Has been seven eight years now, hasn't it?
But it is good to see Assam Police getting into the wonderful world of internet-sleuthery. Better late than never.
c-da
If the USA, with all its resources, cannot track Al-Quida e-mail sources, how do you expect Assam or Indian police, or even their
>PS: You did not read some vicious meaning to it, did you :-)? Perishthe thought if you did. I would not wish any such thing on my worst political opponent.
I know that, that is just too easy if *not* primitive. That is why I am asking, C'da.
>From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]>>
Subject: Re:
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:25:32 -0600
At 9:36 AM -0600 12/20/04, Alpana B. Sarangapani wrote:>Here is a great opportunity for an IT whiz kharkhowa to make a fewfast rupees, along with a posthumous statue in some important road intersection at Guwahati for a highly patriotic service.Didn't get it, C'da. Why the 'posthumous statue'?
*** Come now Alpana :-).
It is not customary to have a statue of a live person, is it? One has to wait until after death, to get a statue, unless you are a Stalin or a Saddam. Who would want to be in those shoes?
c-da
PS: You did not read some vicious meaning to it, did you :-)? Perish the thought if you did. I would not wish any such thing on my worst political opponent.
Hello Netters:
Here is a great opportunity for an IT whiz kharkhowa to make a few fast rupees, along with a posthumous statue in some important road intersection at Guwahati for a highly patriotic service.
"----Revealing this, a high-level source in the police said the department was in search of a professional hacker who could help them out by decoding the mail ID.--""
*** As a highly tech-challenged person, my question however is if the Assam Police should be looking for a foreign ( since desi-hacking is illegal-- I tell you they cover all bases) "hacker" to "decode" ULFA's e-mail address of *<http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam>rubibhuyan at yahoo.com * .
Even our resident goru-daktor, Tilok Hatimuria can find out what e-mail server rubibhuyan uses. Even though he is kharkhowa to the bone, he can qualify as an "expert" phoren-hacker since he lives at Dogpatch USA. Question is what the Assam Police will do with that? Catch Arabinda Rajkhowa by finding his hideout?
Haanhim ne kaandim ( should we laugh or should we cry)?
Maybe one of our assam-net IT whizzes can fill us in on the deal.
cm
From the Northeast Times NET News Network
Guwahati, Dec 20: Suspecting of chaos among the rank and files of the ULFA, police here are now searching for hackers who can decode the e-mail ID given by the banned outfit's chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa.
Revealing this, a high-level source in the police said the department was in search of a professional hacker who could help them out by decoding the mail ID.
"We don't have one in the department and searching for somebody who can break it," he said adding, "Besides, we have to opt for outside hacker for hacking is prohibited as per international law."
The move came in the backdrop of ULFA Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa's statement about two days back urging various organizations, intellectuals, media and its well-wishers to communicate with him through <http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam>rubibhuyan at yahoo.com
Rajkhowa informed that the outfit's C-in-C Paresh Baruah would refrain from direct communication with anybody for sometime as he had been shifted to a safer place due to severe sickness.
Police and other security agencies believes that the e-mail had been made public for specific reasons, the sources said adding decoding of the mail ID could provide them with vital information.
Another reliable source attached to the top brass of Assam Police said the ULFA's e-mail ID was known to all--whether it is media or Dr Mamoni Raisom Goswami or others concerned-and added that they had probably made the ID public through the media to gauge public opinion on the issue of " sovereignty" through an indirect referendum on the issue. It may be recalled that the outfit had been repeatedly daring the government to hold a referendum on the issue of sovereignty and even declared to abide by its outcome. Meanwhile, it may be mentioned that the series of blasts triggered by the outfit had literally confused the government as well as other security agencies operating in the State. What is of more concern for the police is that the outfit has Programmable Time Device (PTD) where a blast can be planted 190 days ahead of the scheduled date.
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