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Indian Tech Innovation Overview
Bernard Lunn writing for Read Write Web has some good analysis. Ends with a nice blurb for Rajesh Jain’s Novatium – subsidy free sub $100 laptops. Sidenote: Rajesh has a nice piece in this month’s Pragati on India’s technology potential. … Continue reading
Storm: Holiday Boost
Honeyblog – The picture illustrates the success rate of the botnet: The x-axis shows the date, starting a few days before Christmas and ending today. The y-axis represents the number of infected machines within Stormnet, the “encrypted” part of the … Continue reading
Viral WiFi Attack
Interesting paper (PDF). Based on the premise that home WiFi routers are less likely to be protected, always on, and lack third party security software, researchers: Mapped real networks in Chicago, Boston, New York City, the San Fransisco Bay area, Seattle, … Continue reading
Spoofing Cisco Products to Air Traffic Control
Ouch: The men are charged with importing cartons full of phony stickers with the Cisco Systems logo and attaching the stickers to imitation computer components. They are also accused of importing empty boxes with Cisco logos to package the equipment … Continue reading
Myanmar Kills Connectivity
Here is one way to do it (taxes if you’re an all powerful regime): Without warning, Myanmar’s military junta has ordered a massive 166-fold rise in the annual satellite television levy in an apparent attempt to stop people watching dissident … Continue reading