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>>>>> "Raj" == Rajkumar S <Rajkumar> writes:
Raj> Raj Mathur wrote:
>> High on conjecture/rumour and low on facts. Sounds like
>> another Ank*t F*dia style story from Yet Another Clueless
>> Journalist.
Raj> I hear that DoT has placed a computer with a dial in modem
Raj> with access to all the traffic in all ISPs. No one at ISP
Raj> knows what is happening on that box. So that may be the stuff
Raj> this article is talking about.
Raj> So I would say be afraid, very afraid :)
Hmm, afraid of what, conspiracy theories? Why should DoT place a
computer at any ISP? What sort of connectivity does it have? Do you
have the phone number and login/password for this computer? Can this
computer intercept traffic between the RAS and the gateway router, or
the gateway router and the 'net? What software is this computer
running? Can it crack my PGP encryption? For that matter, can it
even crack 40-bit RSA in real-time?
Given the state of things in this country, sounds more like a device
to answer a parliamentary question of the form ``Can the honourable
Minister tell us what steps have been taken to ensure the security of
the nation over the Internet?'' ``I would like to inform the House
that we have a monitoring computer in each Internet access point in
the country.'' ``Oh! I'm so glad to hear that we are now
INVULNERABLE from the INTERNET THREAT OF HACKERS and MISGUIDED
NATIONAL ZEALOTS. Let's PUT A BAN ON a TIBETAN MAILING LIST and SHOW
THE WORLD HOW CLUED WE ARE!''.
Regards,
- -- Raju
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