Be like a reading glass

There was a small social experiment wherein a message was made to travel amongst a small group of people. That is a message was conveyed from a source through a finite number of mediators before it reaches to the destination. The outcome was astonishing that source message was completely altered by mediators in between before it reached the destination.

 The latest level of distortion was to clip the information into pieces and pick that cropped clip which conveys completely different meaning to be precise a opposite meaning when compared to original block of information. This unethical cropped information in made to cater to popularization of the propaganda.

It is difficult to reign in on these manipulations through any law as they are logically correct but ethically debatable and there is no rule that can punish unethical practices especially when these manipulations are incentivized by those people decorating highest offices in any organization.

 

Worst thing is to give wings to these manipulations by the general state actors knowing the harmfulness of such synthetic modifications. And this practice has a universal backing and also a part of the strategic decision making by the authoritarians. Only thing those who are against such practices can do is to withdraw from the loop that encourages the manipulations.

Need for institutionalisation of digital sovereignity

Data sovereignty and technological sovereignty are the two pillars of digital sovereignty, which can be defined as the degree of control an organization has over its entire digital environment, including data, applications, software, systems, and hardware. Which is aligned to the WEF definition “the ability to have control over your own digital destiny – the data, hardware and software that you rely on and create.”

 A closer examination reveals that cybersecurity is at the heart of data sovereignty and helps enhance technological sovereignty.

It’s important that organizations understand that digital sovereignty is not an “all or nothing” proposition. Digital sovereignty exists in varying degrees on a scale which is constantly in flux.

Governments and organizations advocating for digital sovereignty need to adopt a risk-based approach. They must carefully assess their level of control over data and technology, and take great care to ensure that sovereignty does not come at the cost of agility — a key factor to thriving in the Digital Age.

Source:  https://atos.net/en/lp/digital-sovereignty-cybersecurity-magazine/what-is-sovereignty-and-why-it-does-matter

But instead of institutionalizing digital sovereignty governments across the world are busy institutionalizing artificial intelligence which needs wider ratification from all stakeholders instead becoming a trend amongst wealthy and mighty.

We all love experiments

If you are a generation who have crossed college life, you should have come across idea of laboratory and experiments. Laboratory and experiments connects us with the practical visualization of theoretical learning. Visualization of theoretical knowledge adds more eagerness to our learning.

 

 

Experiments are all around us and is not limited to academic field. There is experimentation in the field of life science, in business, in agriculture and not the last but in politics too. One of the most basic requirement of putting our hands in experimentation is that we should be well prepared with the unexpected outcomes, be it progressive or regressive.

And Indian diaspora is on verge of undergoing a vital experiment and this time they want to give a chance to a psychopathic leadership. Not sure under what compulsion they have stuck themselves to become a partner in crime. Be sure that India has seen many psychopaths since the dawn of its civilized settlement and have over ridden them safeguarding their faith from getting polluted by the psychopathic thought process.

 On one side I am dumb struck with the risk they have involved themselves to sway against the tide of synchronized and to prove the universe wrong. On the other side I can only wish them best of luck in their endeavor and pray that they never stop future experimenting on a regressive outcome of the present one. 

Happy experimenting.

 

When life gives you lemon....

I had my primary and high schooling at a christian missionary school. And much of my English knowledge I owe this to my school. It was a cosmopolitan experience. I enjoyed each and every moment, those teachers and friends were just enriching experience. There was never a dull scenario.

The specialty of my schooling was I never felt that I was schooled. There was never a need wherein my parents had to have personal talk to the teachers regarding my studies or conduct in the classroom. And ten years just passed like a bullet train journey with a sense of comfort.

You might be wondering what was the need to relive the school days. My take about the aspect is that we are all made to rerun. I mean we are made to believe that we living at someone's mercy. The air we breathe, the sunlight we receive, the rain that fills our ponds and the memories that enrich our hearts. We are expected to infer that we are indeed living each and every milli-second stealing life out of our living. And that is a worst form of making a living worse than that of a beggar who owes nothing to anyone.

Without going into details of who was responsible to drive us into such a situation, our focus should be how to insulate our future generation from getting entrapped. I don't mean that we should hide the reality from them but hide them from reality.

Save the Mist

 Its summer at its peak and literally venturing out in mid-noon on empty roads is like get fried on a heated pan. Usually this type of roasting was expected to be offset by shallow rain but even that is missing during this summer.

 A dry spell often seen as evaporated weather gets compared with state of difficulty and displeasure. A drizzle resulting in conversion of dryness to wetness brings a sense of satisfaction and invokes patience rekindling hope of sublime emotions.

Dryness and wetness not only related to external weather but also internal sustenance. As and when we move away from kindness and humanity you can expect a dry spell with the hearts literally punishing it for your vague thoughts. Problem with internal dryness when compared to external dryness is that there is no need to convince anyone for forgone external dryness as it is quite natural wherein it becomes duty of nature to bring in the wetness to quench the thirst of the dried.

 

But internal dryness is heavily engulfed by the thoughts which acted as convincing particulars to embrace and feel internally dried. And to bring back that wetness into the hearts is mountainous task. Its our duty to fight the dryness and save that mist within the heart irrespective of who and how many stand against it.

Work under supervision

When you try to differentiate between process followed by well established companies that believe in self governance and those lala companies that believe in micromanagement. You can sense the difference based on the mentality developed by the workers serving in the respective types.

The organization that believe in self governance don't spend much of the time on supervising the employees and believes in liberal environment wherein the employees are self sustained towards contributing to the goal of the organization. Real problem that arises is when a person used to lala type of company gets a chance to be a part of self governed company.

 That's exactly what is happening in the country, citizens who mostly consisted of labor class were used to lala type of governance who instead of adhering to constitutional liberty feared mostly of application of force by the police department bred within them since British era. 

Scenario has changed world wide with progress of nations that believed in self rule for citizens and hence their governments who are mere voice of the esteemed citizens rather than acting as lordships.

A community that mostly budges to constitution fearing the repercussions it may need to face by the law enforcement agencies rather than understanding its marvel. Once any learnt identifies this weakness, the very reason empowers him to use force as tool of administration. The people who are believers of self rule sees this as the authoritarian rule whereas the problem lies in its citizens who feel treatment meted out to them justified.

The digital forensics - Pegasus spyware

Digital forensics, often known as computer forensics, is the art of gathering, analyzing, and archiving electronic data so that it can be used as evidence in court. It entails using specialized techniques and equipment to investigate digital devices for evidence, such as laptops, smartphones, and other electronic storage devices.

You might have crossed the days wherein Pegasus spyware was reportedly found to have intruded onto the smart phones of influential activists to track there activities against the authoritarian governments. 

NSO Group claims that its Pegasus spyware is only used to “investigate terrorism and crime”  and “leaves no traces whatsoever”. A Forensic Methodology Report shows that neither of these statements are true. This report accompanies the release of the Pegasus Project, a collaborative investigation that involves more than 80 journalists from 17 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories with technical support of Amnesty International’s Security Lab.

Amnesty has hosted the main aspects of research on its webpage with link https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-methodology-report-how-to-catch-nso-groups-pegasus/ 

It has mentioned key features of its research on Pegasus spyware under the headings a below:

1. Discovering Pegasus network injection attacks

2. Pegasus’ BridgeHead and other malicious processes appear

3. Pegasus processes following potential Apple Photos exploitation

4. An iMessage zero-click 0day used widely in 2019

5. Apple Music leveraged to deliver Pegasus in 2020

6. Megalodon: iMessage zero-click 0-days return in 2021

7. Incomplete attempts to hide evidence of compromise

8. Pegasus processes disguised as iOS system services

9. Unravelling the Pegasus attack infrastructure over the years

10. Mobile devices, security and auditability

11. With our Methodology, we release our tools and indicators

 

 

 

 

I am busy stitching my uniform

Last time I remember wherein my opinion was welcomed was regarding selection of tiles to a new house built by my younger brother. Apart from that most of my opinion be it regarding work culture, financial investment or educational training was mostly on a contradictory path when compared to general perception regarding the subject matter.

 

An opinion is a opinion, be it implemented or not by the responsible heads. You have to accept the fact this society is not based on meritorious opinion but hinged onto motorized mobility. If a scam is able to travel faster than the logic, rest be assured scam has the upper hand.

It will be an up-skilling effort to find basis of factors that decide the velocity of mobility but not worth the time as dynamics are far flung. Fakery is throttled, plagiarism is mainstreamed, pilferage is stabilized. Is it the end of game for those who escaped onslaught of muggers?

 

Mahatma Gandhi said that in matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. There is no one to stand behind you if you wish to stand behind the conscience. But peculiarity is there is no one to force you to stand behind the conscience as you are surrounded by the flag bearers of majority cause.

We were always a wicked

 I would always be wrong to say that we are embracing wickedness out of blue or our surrounding has gone delusion-ed when compared to yesterday. Deceit, deranged, dichotomous, you mention any cringe word from dictionary and you can find it in our connections. 

 

But none of this had a bearing on our perception w.r.t. recreational understanding. There was an unwritten understanding between the two extremities to not to cross each others path. And thus our younger generation were insulated from the parched thoughts to help them design their own future based on principles of universal brotherhood.

As there was consensus being formed amongst adamant fundamentalists on keeping the future away from the self centrist mentality, a personality that believes in dismembering consensus has made a headway to un-groom the holistic approach being infused within the senses of the projected.

 

Does this mean our strides in purported acceptance of mentored future gone awry? The answer doesn't lie in a straight forward  dynamism, but we can be assured that there has been a damage to credible holistic view. It is time to ascertain who were influenced by the polity based on integrity and who just coerced themselves citing crowd mania.

Abhivyakti kho jayo sarkari suvidhayen lo

 "yes gentlemen!! Were you able to unlock the password? You know its the top most priority. We have orders from the highest level and has to be done right now." This would be regular life of the investigative agencies. Locking and unlocking, blocking and unblocking, arresting and releasing. Investigating officials follow one of the puppetry execution of the duty without any room for expressing their personal point of view regarding the subject. They have to remember what their higher ups are interested in and forget what their higher ups are disinterested about.

 Membership mania is real. Wonder why when we are included as part of an organization and subsequent membership requires us to submit our uniqueness replacing it with so called motto of the organization. You may argue that our very own decision of subscribing to the membership is willingness to accept the motto of the organization.

But is it really a choice that we have, in deciding rationality behind subscribing to the motto? We are living in era wherein a simply residential certificate from local Councillor or Ward member is perceived as our concurrence to their party motto. 

 Service is governed by rules of service seekers satisfaction and hence government services are governed by citizen's satisfaction rather than peeking into the citizen profiling and hence varying the degree of service based on the profiled data.

ಒಂದು ಜನಾಂಗ ಒಂದು ಕನಸು

 ಕನಸು ನನಸು ಮಾಡುವುಧು ಒಂದು ಕಲೆ. ಕನಸು ನಮ್ಮ  ಅಂತಾರಾಳಧಾ ಪ್ರತಿಬಿಂಬವಾಗಿಧೆ. ಅವರವರ ಅನುಭವ, ಮನಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಅಡಿಗಿಟ್ಟಿರುವ ಭವಿಷ್ಯತೀನ ಎಧುರುನೋಟ ಇವೆಲ್ಲಧರ ಒಂದು ಭಾಗವೇ ಕನಸ್ಸು. ಕನಸ್ಸಿಗು ಮನಸಿಗೂ ಒಂದು ಅವಿಭಾಜ್ಯ ಬಂಧನವು ಇರುತ್ತದೇ. 

ಕನಸು ವಿವಿಧ ರೀತಿಯ ಅನುಭವು ನೀಡುತದೇ, ಆ ಅನುಭವು ಸಿಹಿಯಾಗಿಯೂ ಇರಭವುಧು ಕಹಿಯನ್ನು ಉಂಟು ಮಾಡಬಾವುಧು. ಯಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ಜೀವನಧಲ್ಲಿ ನಾವು ಮಾನವರಾಗಿ ಉಳಿಧಿರುವುಧು ಈ ಒಂದು ಕನಸನಿಂಧಗಿಯೇ. ಆಧ್ರೆ ಇಂಧಿನ ಕೃತಕವಾಗಿ ಯೋಚಿಸುವ ನಾಯಕರು ನಿಮ್ಮ  ನಯ್ಸರ್ಗಿಕವಧ ಕನಸನ್ನು ಮೆಟ್ಟಿನಿಂತು ಅಧರ ಭಧಲು ಒಳ ಸಂಚಿನಿಂಧ ಕೂಡಿರುವ ತಮ್ಮ ಕೃತಕ ಆಧಾರಿತ ಕನಸನ್ನು ನಿಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇರುವ ಧುಶ್ಚಟಕ್ಕೆ ತಮ್ಮನ್ನು ತೊಡಗಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿಧಾರೆ.

ಪ್ರಕೃತಿ ನೀಡಿರುವ ಕನಸು ಕಾಣುವ ಅಭಿವ್ಯಕ್ತ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯವು ಹಲ್ಲೆಗೆ ಒಳ್ಳಪಟ್ಟಿದೇ. ಒಂದು ದೇಶ ಒಂದು ಧಾರ್ಮ, ಒಂದು ದೇಶ ಒಂದು ಪಂಗಡ, ಒಂದು ದೇಶ ಒಂದು ಭಾಷೆ ಅನ್ನುವ ಸಾಲಿನಲ್ಲಿ, ಒಂದು ಜನಾಂಗ ಒಂದು ಕನಸ್ಸು ಅನ್ನುವ ಹಾಧಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಮ್ಮ ಸಾರ್ಯತ್ವ ಸಾಗಿಧೆ. ಮೇಲ್ನೋಟಕ್ಕೆ ಇದು ನಮ್ಮ ಒಗ್ಗಟ್ಟನ್ನು ಸಾರಿದರು ನಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರತ್ಯಕಥನ್ನು ಪ್ರೀತುಸುವ ಪ್ರಪಂಚ ನೀತಿಯ ವಿರೋಧವಾಗಿ ರೂಪಿಸುವ ತಂತ್ರಗಾರಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಸೂಚಿಸುತದೇ. 

ನಿಮ್ಮ ಕನ್ನಸ್ಸು ಕಾಣುವ ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕತೆಯನ್ನು ತ್ಯಾಗ ಮಾಡುವ ಚಿಂತನೆ ನಿಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ರೂಪಗೊಂಡಿರಬಾಹುಧು ಆಧರೇ ಈ ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕಥೆಯ ನಿಜವಾಧ ಹಕ್ಕುಧರರು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮುಂಧಿನ ಪೀಳಿಗಯೇ ಹೊರತು, ನಿಮ್ಮ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯ   ಈ ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕತೆಯನ್ನು ಕಾಪಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಅಧನ್ನು ಮುಂಧಿನ ಪೀಳಿಗಯಗೆ ಹಸ್ತಾಂತರಿಸುವುಧು ಅಷ್ಟೇ ಸೂಕ್ತ.

Leaving behind an impression

Our local social system is basically driven by an assumption that we are privileged version of universe and rest of world can wait for us. This assumption or illusion is shared even by a just born baby to elder waiting to die the next second.

 

I am not going to debate whether this shared assumption is right or wrong as there is no use in realizing its pros and cons at the fag end of the evolutionary process. I am just at cross roads as to how it impacts collective conscience. I mean what do we think we are privileged about. Till yesterday I was under the impression that we were privileged to spread the message of humbleness, to use privilege to veto out the arrogance of power and so on.

We can really visualize the future wherein the assumption of being privileged are promulgated to fuel self pride, that is we have started to weaponize the assumption of privileged to pump up the adrenaline rush to feel proud of being privileged instead of pitching it to be a part of the consortium.

 

This gives raise to elementary problem of have we really understand roles and responsibility of being privileged which is not a sudden phenomenon but a result of a hereditary handover to safeguard the interests of the merchants of good.

Journey and milestone

 Its always hard to resist deviations but makes sure your journey never stops or in short you loose your right to decide the path of journey for sake of some probational milestones which doesn't allow you to appropriate the same as a part of your making in progress.

 

 I can dwell deeper and I will find no qualms in exposing the comfort zone however risky form it may take. You are made to involve beyond the boundaries set by the rules of game, and you are rightly passionate enough to engage with much fervour as you were made to believe that journey shall be rewarding without even wondering whether the said milestone is upgrading your fantasy or someone is going to shape what your journey is suppose to be or to even a extent that cut short the journey citing the non-availability of bandwidth.

We are hopeful of better days with a belief that our journey is going to be routed through the days of prosperity that might add new dimensions to the character of journey enabling us to prepare us for the challenges ahead to make sure our zeal for journey isn't confiscated.

 

This abstract idea of journey and milestone is quite localized and are recorded by fellow travelers in a abstract manner wherein you cannot pull up socks on your own without the involvement of fellow beings. An individual who has mastered art of appropriation will not hesitate to replace your milestones with that of his, replace his journey with that of yours tempting you of wider access to the space wherein he himself has been barred to pursue.

 

Hackers are new age whistleblowers

What Is Whistleblowing?

The practice of revealing information to stop wrongdoing is called whistleblowing. A whistleblower reveals information about negligence, malpractice or illegal activity to a trusted source. It often occurs between a company and an employee, and whistleblowers can report information to their employer or choose to go public.

Can Whistleblowing Be Used for Good?

Whistleblowing poses risks to consumer data, but the company getting called out is usually already taking such risks. Whistleblowers who are careful about revealing information can do good. Multiple government agencies exist specifically to protect this info when this occurs, so a whistleblower can protect people’s privacy by going directly to them. Even if someone is doing this out of spite, companies engaging in illegal or unethical practices deserve to be held accountable.

source: https://brilliancesecuritymagazine.com/cybersecurity/ethics-of-whistleblowing-in-cybersecurity/

Whistleblowing in cybersecurity?

The most important role of whistleblowers in cybersecurity is to hold companies accountable to security regulations. Data breach laws are becoming more common, but enforcing them in every instance can be challenging, with over 15 million records leaking in 2022 alone.

Whistleblowers may not be an official part of a company’s cybersecurity posture, but they serve an important purpose in the security industry as a whole.

Ideally, businesses will never have to deal with these cases, but that should come from a place of compliance, not discouraging whistleblowers themselves.

Organizations must take regulatory compliance more seriously as whistleblower protections rise. That trend can push more companies toward a higher security standard, reducing cybercrime’s impact on their business and customers.

 Source: https://hackernoon.com/the-role-of-whistleblowers-in-cybersecurity

Just how safe are whistleblowers under Indian law?

 In India, whistleblowers are protected by the Whistle Blowers Protection Act, 2014. The law provides for the protection of their identity and also has strict norms to prevent their victimization. For instance, an organization cannot initiate proceedings against a whistleblower pending a probe into allegations. The same sections have been adopted in the Companies Act, which applies to listed companies, and are a part of the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s governance norms. All listed and public sector firms need to have a whistleblower policy that outlines procedures and recourses available to complainants.

source: https://www.livemint.com/news/india/just-how-safe-are-whistleblowers-under-indian-law-11571763505941.html

Unfortunately there are no laws in India to specifically serve whistleblowers in cybersecurity domain I mean digital world.

AI powered karsevak

Karsevaks are people who volunteer their services for free to a religious cause, the term being derived from the Sanskrit words 'kar' (hand) and 'sevak' (servant). Ayodhya-based karsevaks are a group who demanded the Ram temple in Ayodhya for over decades and struggled vehemently to achieve it. 

 

 A necklace on the humanoid changed colour from green to orange, and it shook its head before giving out the answer with informative details as other children curiously listened. This silk saree-draped humanoid is 'Iris', the first AI teacher unveiled in Kerala. A disturbed network connection and the chatter from the children often slowed down Iris as it tried to catch the noises, presuming them to be questions asked to 'her'. And when there were too many noises, Iris took time to process the question. But when the hall was silent and a student asked a question, either from their syllabus or anything under the sun, Iris gave out the answer in no time, with examples and references. 

You might be wondering what is the link between Karsevaks and AI humanoid teacher. I wondered what was stopping the AI humanoid from taking a form of a Karsevak, I mean a AI humanoid karsevak. Isn't it something debating aspect of confluence of scientific world and spiritual world?

 

 

When a simple stone idol can attain the status of god after a 'prana prathistapan', don't you think our ancient scriptures had the ability I mean art of converting a AI humanoid into a karsevak, if not a god by itself.

over decades and struggled vehemently to achieve it.

Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/india/who-are-karsevaks-what-do-they-do-285872decades and struggled vehemently to achieve it.

Karsevaks are people who volunteer their services for free to a religious cause, the term being derived from the Sanskrit words 'kar' (hand) and 'sevak' (servant). Ayodhya-based karsevaks are a group who demanded the Ram temple in Ayodhya for over d...

Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/india/who-are-karsevaks-what-do-they-do-2858728

Karsevaks are people who volunteer their services for free to a religious cause, the term being derived from the Sanskrit words 'kar' (hand) and 'sevak' (servant). Ayodhya-based karsevaks are a group who demanded the Ram temple in Ayodhya for over d...

Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/india/who-are-karsevaks-what-do-they-do-2858728

Karsevaks are people who volunteer their services for free to a religious cause, the term being derived from the Sanskrit words 'kar' (hand) and 'sevak' (servant). Ayodhya-based karsevaks are a group who demanded the Ram temple in Ayodhya for over d...

Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/india/who-are-karsevaks-what-do-they-do-2858728