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Dealing with a cracked email account

Posted by: Dinesh Shah on: August 23, 2009

Today afternoon my GMail account was cracked while I was away from my computer. Thousands of SPAM mails were sent from my account. One of my contacts in Italy reported the incident in couple of hours. The whole incident was an embarrassment as I consider myself very security conscious and pride myself in never having [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

iPhone File Browser for Linux!

Posted by: Dinesh Shah on: December 28, 2008

There are many file browsers for Windows and MAC to browse files on iPhone. I was looking for a ways to browse files on my iPhone using Linux. Now Nautilus file browser on GNOME Desktop supports sftp protocol. Since, I have already installed OpenSSH from Cydia on my iPhone it was just easy to browse [...]

Course content for cyber cafe owners

Posted by: Dinesh Shah on: November 20, 2008

Recently I am working with Chandeeda from Comet Media Foundation to develop a course for cyber cafe owners to adapt free software in their cyber cafes. The design goals of the course are – Adoption of Free and Open Source Software. Improve the access to ICT to under privileged people who cannot afford a computer [...]


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