Tech and Trek tries to take a peek at the latest government move on the encryption of blackberry’s.

This is all well and good for the security agencies but it is a matter of grave concerns that this rule might be enforced across the board and ISPs might be asked to reduce the encryption from 128-bit to 40-bit, which is ridiculous. If true, this could make security of online banking and e-commerce transactions questionable, and may even pose threats to India’s growing outsourcing sector. And worse this can provide a fertile ground for phishing and cracking, and put a serious threat on the country’s digital financial backbone, that too when Americans and CNN are so worried on Chinese hacker threat. Well i hope commonsense will prevail on the babudom.

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The govt’s record on terrorism is very well known , as they haven’t even managed to use the HUMINT, TECHINT and SIGINT resources correctly right since Kargil days , and things have gotten worse, as agencies blamed each other for the goof ups after multiple bomb blasts, ever since the current govt took over and the Home minister took the home affairs of 10 janpath more seriously than that of the Country, ferrying around madam on the IAF planes and the likes. Things are so bad that the media doesn’t take this issue as seriously as it takes cricket. All of the govts diktats right from the blog ban to the use of Oil psus to bear govt subsidy , to the changes in tax scrutiny norms and cutting return filing date by a month to the fm pushing the Govt banks to bear the interest burden of the Agri Loan waivers , and cut interest rates on deposits stink of more power consolidation by the central govt of the Indira times.