Posts by Niel Hirjee

MASSIVE FAIL: Indian gov DOXXES net neutrality campaigners

TRAI buckled under before the DDOS

I was attempting to view the web pages containing the comments from "others" - the internet users of India - and was able to browse and download a few days worth of comments till about 2pm IST, when some of the pages 404'ed.

I suspect TRAI had at that time started the process of removing the pages, in response to reports in the media blaming TRAI for the loss of privacy of Indian netizens. The DDOS started a little later, I think; TRAI had already buckled in and was attempting to remove the pages containing email addresses and other personally identifiable information about Indian internet users.

India's outsourcers fume over new US immigration bill

Re: Not making sense

The percentage is higher and their offspring better known to you than you might imagine - Cliff Richard, Rhona Mitra, Engelbert Humperdinck, Juliet Prowse, Rupert Penry-Jones, Diana Quick, Ben Kingsley, George Orwell, Alistair McGowan, Norman Douglas Hutchinson, Stuart Clark, Henry Gidney and Rahul Gandhi, amongst others.

EU Justice Department stalls India's security clearance

Re: India and secure data

What the Indian government has proved is that it is willing and able to implement Cyber Laws in an attempt to get recognition as a “data secure destination” while it makes little or no tangible effort to clear the huge backlog of pending cases in its courts of law.

The consequence of the backlog is that Indian citizens have to either live with justice delayed to them (which is justice denied, as the saying goes) or take the matter up at an alternative forum - that presided over by Indian ganglords, who are able to arbitrate in days and weeks instead of the years and sometimes decades that the Indian courts of law require a case to stretch before pronouncing their judgements.

In light of this perhaps a bargain should be struck to outsource to India and make available to all Indians the more efficient justice system of the US and UK in exchange for recognising it as a “data secure destination”. I think it would be a win-win for all.

OLPC shuns Indian founder after anti-tablet screed

Re: Applause.

The Government of India deserves lots of applause for its effort to 'continue to examine new and innovative ways to educate the children of India', if the operative word is examine. Few other governments have examined as widely and deeply or continued for as long.

Indian atomic boffins draw up plans for 50,000 TONNE magnet

Re: Good to know all that aid money is not being wasted, eh?

Don't you mean paying a load of civil servants *twice* to waste it for you? India too has a thriving bureaucracy, you know, a legacy from the days of the Raj.

RISC OS comes to Raspberry Pi

Remember BBC BASIC? I do! I Do!? Or rather, I did...

A trip down memory lane for some of us but of little or no use today for any practical purpose...