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Ban on SMS Gateways: Idiocity of DoT and Indian Government

Posted by: Dinesh Shah on: September 30, 2010

Almost for more then a week now idiots at Department of Telecom, Govt. of India has banned Text Message Services (SMS) from SMS Gateways in the name of security! This idiots even don’t know what is security. The Indian Government has misurably failed in all accounts – threats from Terrorists and Naxals, Hyper Inflation, Food [...]

Citizen Identification System

Posted by: Dinesh Shah on: June 28, 2009

Many years ago I made this presentation in on of the FOSS event – FreeDel at JNU, New Delhi in hope that some decision makers will be there and will be able to catch the idea. Citizen Information/Identification System Presentation in PDF Format My presentation was attended by huge audience of 6 people.

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Election Commission of Maharashtra Web site compromised?

Posted by: Dinesh Shah on: April 22, 2009

Today I went to check my voter roll entry at Election Commission of Maharashtra. However, Mozilla Firefox gave following warning. And here is the explanation given by Google I really wonder why our government can not run a simple web site securely? Is this a way by which our “talented” government servants sabotaging information technology [...]

Criminals in Indian Politics

Posted by: Dinesh Shah on: April 1, 2009

Finally we got some good news. Honorable Supreme Court of India rejected the plea of Sanjay Dutt for contesting General Election 2009. I have no issue with Sanjay Dutt as person or as actor. I even liked some of his movies like “Naam”, Munnabhai I and II. However, he has erred and he was punished, [...]

Failed Indian Government

Posted by: Dinesh Shah on: March 23, 2009

I am no fan of cricket and do not watch, play or follow cricket avidly. I could not even name all 15 players in Indian Cricket Team. I just give a cursory glance to Indian Cricket to use it in routine conversations. The recent development in Indian Premier League matches relocation to outside India is [...]


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