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Published On: September 2018

Online Identity

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Photo by Elijah O’Donell on Unsplash World population has reached 7.5 billion. In 2017 about 3.5 billion users were active on internet, that is approximately 50% of world population. If internet was a country, it will be twice the size of the most populated country in the world. Anyone who is on internet can literally find any details about anything at click of a button. I think this simple statistic should be good enough for anyone who has anything positive to share to come online, write something and share with potentially 3.5 billion customers. The reason for this blog is to share simple steps on how to get online identity with the hope that it can help someone looking to get one. What Is An Online Identity? Online identity as per my definition is […]

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Encryption Everywhere

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Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Since the time Edward Snowden leaked classified information, the focus has been on how governments across the world use surveillance to keep tap on digital activities. Lately, I have been reading about it and have come to the conclusion that there is no way around it. However, precautions can be taken if one is worried about his/her digital privacy. Encryption in software/hardware largely boils down to the developers and if they wish then they can strongly encrypt the communication/data. For example, WhatsApp has partnered with Open Whisper Systems to provide end-to-end encryption. The reason to trust this partnership is because Signal Protocol, the technology which WhatsApp uses to encrypt messages, is open. Thus allowing anyone to go through the code to understand what exactly has been implemented and whether that matches up

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Time We Have Delete Button On All Websites

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Photo by Devin Avery on Unsplash Since last one month, I started logging the websites I visit and use, mostly those which require user to login. To my surprise I have account at over 50+ different websites. The number may be much more, considering I wasn’t able to recall all those websites where I created account just because that was the only way to get in, and later on never used it. This may be the case with many internet users. What Is The Problem? Well, the problem is that 90% of these 50+ websites I visit don’t have SSL and some of these send plain text password reset or email the password itself. Showcasing there inner genius in handling user sensitive data. I have taken care not to repeat the mistake of using dump passwords,

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The Curious Case of Indian Cyber Security

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Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash India is home to billion dollar IT industry, numerous e-Governance projects, world’s largest bio metric database and many tech driven services. The single major problem with all these technological projects at national and state levels is the danger of theft and fraud. Government of India (GoI) did realize this and as they do with all services, introduced a policy called National Cyber Security Policy 2013. Well, the story ends with the formation of policy, 2 years after the policy was drafted there is no sign of National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC), and National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC). Both these agencies were supposed to take care of national IT infrastructure, mainly falling under GoI. What’s The Problem? Currently, as per my understanding there is only one national level cyber alert team called Indian Computer Emergency Response Team

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NagpurTech – Technology. Events. Companies. People.

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I started NagpurTech – Technology. Events. Companies. People., an initiative to bring together all the information about technology, events, companies, people in & around Nagpur in 2015.  It has been inactive for a while. Hopefully starting today, I will be able to keep it more active. If you are a student in Nagpur interested in contributing to NagpurTech, please write to me. I think such open platform can be a great opportunity for students interested in mass media. You can follow NagpurTech on Twitter and Facebook.

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Hardware Is Running The World

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Photo by Fancycrave on Unsplash In 2011, Marc Andreessen wrote widely read article Why Software Is Eating The World. Last few years saw similar trend to what he projected, but 2016 was special and showed a new trend which not many would have expected in the year 2011. Year 2016: Hardware is running the world. Hardware has always acted like a catalyst in the world of technology, where many things are done with click of button. Eventually, to process all this information and get user what he she needs, one has to have excellent set of hardware tools, right from WiFi chip, to CPU, to routers, to powerful servers. As it has happened every year since 1971, 2016 too quietly kept introducing hardware oriented products with epic performance and perfect solutions. Marc in his article emphasized

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The Circle Of Mobile Ecosystem

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Photo by Caspar Rubin on Unsplash On June 29, 2007, Apple introduced iPhone and with that it reinvented three markets: Mobile Hardware, Mobile Operating System and Mobile Apps, together called as Mobile Ecosystem. Almost one year after iPhone’s launch similar ecosystem was created by Google‘s Android. Since then, with combined market share of more than 95%, these two companies have destroyed almost all other Mobile OS ecosystems including Nokia’s Symbian, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and RIM’s BlackBerry. After Nokia’s failed acquisition and rewriting millions of codes for touch devices, Microsoft is also getting its act together and is threatening Google and Apple in the mobile arena. It is important to understand where each of these three different mobile ecosystems are heading, and how it’s going to affect the market, where products from watches to cars are becoming smarter

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