February, 2008
Finally, we have our first conviction under the IT Act 2000 in India. After more than a 100 cases being lodged, and about half of them actually reaching the courts, we have our first conviction of an orthopaedic surgeon in Chennai being convicted of recording and uploading pornographic images. He and his brother in the US were found running a profitable pornographic website selling the videos and images.
Other notable cases nowhere near conviction include the hacking of the Mumbai cybercrime cell, the financial defrauding of Citibank customers by its BPO Mphasis, the creation of an Orkut group criticising Shivaji which got an IT engineer in Bangalore wrongly incarcerated due to a serious goof-up by Bharti (the ISP), and others.
Coming back to the original case, though, I wonder why the actions of the doc, warranted a life sentence? What is intriguing is the presence of machine gun bullets at his farmhouse - wonder where the machine gun correlating to the bullets might be? Maybe the doc was also a gun-runner in addition to being a pervert.
August, 2007
from NII Consulting
The IT Act 2000 is a large repository of fine print fraught with judicial jargon and varying legal implications.
To quote from the preamble of the Act,
“An Act to provide legal recognition for the transactions carried our by means of electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication, commonly referred to as “Electronic Commerce”, which involve the use of alternatives to paper based methods of communication and storage of information , to facilitate electronic filings of documents with the Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code, Indian Evidence Act, 1872,, The Bankers’ Books Evidence Act, 1891, and the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.”
The full Act is available online in a neatly organized HTML format at http://www.naavi.org/importantlaws/itbill2000/index.htm
To make it more comprehensible, our principal consultant, K. K. Mookhey, recently drew up a presentation to provide an overview and quick understanding of all the chapters of the IT Act.
This presentation is available for download at http://www.niiconsulting.com/services/IT_Act_2000_NIIConsulting.ppt
December, 2006
by Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting
Well, last week was abuzz with activity when we had to recover data from a corrupt Linux hard disk. Thought it would be pretty easy but as soon as I loaded the hard disk, I knew something was amiss.
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January, 2006
by K. K. Mookhey, NII Consulting
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It’s late at night, and the phone rings. This had better be a world-changing revolution. But it’s something weirder. A client in East Asia informs us that his systems are behaving most abnormally. Before one can gather one’s senses, the information begins to flow:
“The primary trading systems, which offer web-based trading are down”
The panic in his voice is unmistakable. But this statement could mean many things, so we probe further.
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