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

Art of being omnipresent

The most alluring aspect of being in the power is establishment of eternity. In short they want to conquer past, present and future. In other words, it is about being omnipresent in time domain i.e. past, present and future. 

 

 There is a saying that anything that can be imagined can be converted into reality. So, the questions on practicalities of being omnipresent in time domain are quite secondary. It is an art mastered by astute and out of bounds by the individuals who are out of sync with spiritual inner world.

Being omnipresent in time domain denotes the aspect of attaining eternity. The concept may be intriguing but nothing new to Indian culture where we have hundreds of gods being worshiped in different forms who are indeed those astute being a master w.r.t. the art of being omnipresent in time domain. 

 

Tamil superstar Rajni Kanth says that if we know the time of our death, our time of living will turn into hell. Being omnipresent in time domain doesn't necessarily mean we know happenings of past and future. Instead it is simply an attempt to make our present time be in sync with past and future without any discontinuities in between. 

 

 

Democratic Extravaganza - 2024

Dear friends,

Congratulations to all, we all have collectively made it to the times wherein we have secured that valuable outlook w.r.t. our voting rights from being washed away in the din engineered by the ruling class. 

It was such a horrendous journey of picking best of the two evils and placing the restrictions within its own game. However challenging it might have turned out to be but everything is worth the effort.

I am not going to dive deep into the subject but the culmination of the factors lies in the way you chose in harnessing potential of your voting rights that can formulate the challenges and consequences thrown from the future.

I know that each one of you have a diversified view points in taking a stand on how your vote should be caste in a meaningful way. 

According to me the most dangerous thing that got a spotlight in these testing times is something called 'Whataboutery'. This is nothing but two parties competing with each other towards a negative direction. And this phenomena has to be contained as it feeds more of rabidity amongst the two competing bodies than being any part of useful productivity.

And finally, I would like to conclude that you are not voting to decide on the future of your children instead you are voting on behalf of the future of your children. 

Lets make this democratic extravaganza a memorable event to cherish.

Green space - the lung space

Being an odd place amidst hustle bustle filled city life are green parks. Parks may not be as spacious as the greenery filled wild forest but they add a different color on overall picture of the area which houses the same. 

 

One such park in my locality is the abbigere park sprawled over 2.5 lakh sq feet serves the purpose of inducing sense of pleasant feel to the morning walkers as well as to the green lovers. Moderately maintained by the BBMP is populated with plants and concrete seats welcoming the visitors with open arms.

People have to be appreciated for not spoiling ambience of the place by keeping it litter free. Visitors consists of all ages from kids to age old people who refresh themselves by admiring the lush greenery of the space. It does have child playing area but the equipment needs an overhaul.

 

I have been to the place many times with my friends and family members. But as everyone feels that greenery with water body adds more creativity to the place. I do sometimes feel a small lake or atleast a fountain body nearby the park could arouse a sense of mushiness.

I will tell who you are based on what you do with my data

Gone are the days when people used to judge you based on what you do with their money or property when they transfer the ownership owing to illness or some other kind of crisis. As everyone mention data is the new gold and so is its tranquility. Everyone is cautious before filling those online forms which needs to divulge their personal information as it may used as an instrument to harm you in future.

 We can never be sure about how a simple information such as our phone number and email ID shared with non-credible handler might end up becoming the base point for further detrimental activities. We are informed about phishing, KYC fraud and other forms of scams which doesn't require any need of your physical involvement but completely based on access to your sensitive data.  

Next question is where can your data be safe. You may have a password protected electronic locker to store your valuable in order to safeguard the same but question arises how to safeguard the password data which in turn safeguard your valuable. Isn't it true that a simple password data which safeguards your valuables is more valuable than the stored valuables itself? So is the case with your online bank account password and so on.

 

But we are still in a dilemma on how to safeguard our data. Theoretically best place would be in our memory which is accessible to only us away from the possibilities of being hacked. But practically it is close to impossible with current level scientific status quo. The very next option would be an electronic memory which again is incomplete without a password for the same too.

 

  

Binary language called Exile politics

Our society however progressive or diversified it may be, is still binary in nature when it comes to assigning power to govern itself. We may say that we are multiparty system but the fight is always between two dominant competitors in the game while the other regional parties has to align with the one of the two dominant factions.

 

In a forward thinking society this wouldn't be a problem, as this competition is quite healthy in conceptual as this is only during the election season. After the announcement of result organizations are back to business wherein the indifferences are handled in background while their leadership share a cordial relationship in foreground. That is basic etiquette of power balancing.

But the entire gamut turns sour wherein this basic etiquette is overridden, I mean the competition turns into enmity  to such an extent that the looser in forced to go into exile rather than being accommodated in the system as an useful opposition by the winner. Danger is imminent and its ticking.

 

What does it mean to us as a citizen who were guided into democracy by our forefathers to be precise our freedom fighters? We can claim immunity citing our responsibility of empowering the guardians of our culture as a way of honoring our great forefathers. But you should be well versed with the level of empowerment of bestowing ultimate powers.