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Carnivore Comes To India
pamri writes: "India is getting its own version of Carnivore. According to this Times of India article,'...after investigations have revealed that Mohammad, alias "Burger," who led the Parliament attack, was in constant touch with his counterparts in Pakistan as well as within India through email ... The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has prepared a list of new keywords that are to be used to intercept mails emanating from IP addresses in India.'"
How are they going to find that message, or understand its significance? The NSA intercepted and decrypted a large number of Soviet diplomatic/intelligence messages in the 1940s (VENONA). Despite a large amount of work, the identities of many of the agents referred to in the messages are unknown.
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Interesting.
Your comment about finding new ways to spy on citizens is true although we probably will never know how much surveillance has gone on by various govenments against their citizens through the ages.
The fact that the current political climate is giving rise to privacy violations such as these should be of concern to Indians in particular and freedom-loving people everywhere.
However a country that miltarily occupies another nation usually isn't too concerned about minor things such as Internet privacy rights.
I believe you are correct that most Indians will not even know about these measures and that they can do something about them (even if they aren't affected at this point in time) due to more basic issues such as survival.
Well, did the development of Carnivore in the U.S. have anything to do with catching terrorists? Did Ashcrofts "patriot" bill have anything to do with catching terrorists? Does the Indian version of Carnivore have anything to do with catching terrorists? No, no, and no. And ev-ry-body knows it. Carnivores ineffectiveness at catching terrorists is irrelevant because that is not the purpose.
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India has a carnivore clone ?. Well with 15 languages and even more encoding schemes for native languages I would like to see India government filter through this mess of Utf8,UCS4,IsCII, TScii (encodings). But personally I will say that india government is wating public money to slow down the currently shaky internet. But terrorism is a real threat and we have found to our error when our parliament was attacked. But monitoring email is no solution when people talk "onnu poda , chumma adipidi koodathe" (malyalam written in roman script) Well just wasting their time , and our money
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in India I'm sure they don't have the US rights the US people all love and enjoy, so the Indians are going to just have to deal with it.
All i would say dear sir is that It would be better if you were to read the Indian Constitution and the Indian Penal Code.
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