The Times of India reports that hackers have accessed Chandrababa Naidu’s schedules, mail server and other online data — and that they’ve been doing this for over six months.
This is truly astounding. Not that the hack is difficult (given the IP it’s probably trivial), but the fact that the IT honchos who flash themselves around as gurus of the cyber world are, as in the real world, usually charlatans or incompetents, or both. What did they think? That because it’s on the Net, therefore it’s safe? Actually, it betrays a fundamental want of understanding of the nature of the medium.
That’s probably because this crew hasn’t ever bothered to understand how the Internet came into existence in the first place. At a recent lecture I gave to some students in a law college, I was astonished to find that not one of those who’d spoken before me had even bothered to go into the history of the Internet at all. Most of the students (all but one, in fact) assumed that it was ‘thing’ that was just ‘out there somewhere’!
But more alarming still in the ToI report is the news that these hackers routinely jump into what should be high-security sites, such as the Atomic Research Centre, a leading bank, the railways and so on. God help us. This looks very ominous indeed.
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