For readers in India, a critical story breaking from @tomer_ganon of the @calcalist in Israel. Turns our #Pegasus was also used by Israeli Police to target not only activists and journalists, but also CEOs and politicians. #thread#surveillance
According to the Israeli media report, even the son of former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu became an unwilling target as his phone was infected. The phone was occasionally being used by the PM's wife. Imagine the level of security breach.
Very important order from the Supreme Court and definitely worth reading. Will tweet some excerpts for about the issues raised. As usual, Justice Chandrachud and his colleagues on the Bench have brought in a lot of clarity #Thread#COVID19#vaccination images.assettype.com/barandbench/20…
The SC settles that #vaccination is a central government responsibility: "Thus, the management of the pandemic, control of the spread of COVID-19, vaccination policy and pricing, are the responsibility of the Central Government," which must work with State Govts 2/n
The quota of 25% to States, the SC says, "is extremely disproportionate and not in touch with societal realities". So the "quota available to the private hospitals must be reduced" 3/n
This is a service *Only* for District #Gurugram. Please don't use it for testing. It will only overload the system.
This is an effort to reach patients at home and help them. As the Bot stabilises in a few days, we will add more services to it.
The Bot was a race against time. We hope it will help people and help the administration to reach them and taken care of them.
As it becomes better, we will try and roll it out to more districts
Stay safe. #Gurugram
Following the "revelation" of #WhatsApp chats of Bollywood actors, a short #thread on the #tech, #encryption#surveillance and #law. How did the police access the chats and what it means for privacy. 1/n
Messaging apps like #WhatsApp and @signalapp offer end-to-end #encryption. Incidentally, the protocol for both was designed by one of my favourite engineers and genius @moxie and his group.
Two key things to remember about accessing data -- is the data at rest (on your device) or in transit (when you hit the send message). If it's in transit, then e-to-e encryption makes its difficult to intercept. Only 10 agencies in India are notified to do this interception
The failure of intelligence is a political failure. No government wants to reform Indian intelligence for current and future threats deccanchronicle.com/opinion/column…
Reform after reform in intelligence is reactive and half-baked. RN Kao attempted one after the 1962 war with China. That experiment has also failed deccanchronicle.com/opinion/column…
Why did the plethora of Indian security agencies miss the massive Chinese build up? Turns out, it hadn't. But there were many Kargil-type failures in assessing Chinese intentions. My piece deccanchronicle.com/opinion/column…
The ITBP and the army has elaborate patrolling protocols that are jointly planned by MoD and MHA. They carry GPS and collect waypoints as they patrol. Why did they miss out on the Chinese build up? Or did they? deccanchronicle.com/opinion/column…
XXIV Corps Commander, a former DGMI, was warned about Chinese moves to change status quo? Why did he miss reading the reason leaves in his op area? deccanchronicle.com/opinion/column…