Oct 2018
As a Mac user with concerns about privacy and data security, I have used a personal firewall on my laptop for many years. The specific one I use is Little Snitch. Normally I don’t name products but I like it so much that I have no problem making this exception. The way it works is […]
Sep 2018
We re-launched YouRTI.in and introduced the Telugu version on the 23rd of August 2018. It was an official announcement of the partnership with the Hyderabad-based NGO Yugantar. We had a member of the Central Information Commission present to “launch” the site and talk about the importance of the Right to Information [known in other countries […]
The immediate reaction of a lot of cyber-security professionals to the news that Microsoft Excel would support Javascript was, “What could go wrong.” The clear implication being that a lot could go wrong, that this is creating a lot of risk and that this was an unnecessary step. It is true, including Javascript support in […]
May 2018
The security dashboard of the world’s most popular sites, SecureTheWeb.info, uses data collected by a Python script that visits the sites. This Python script in turn relies on the underlying OpenSSL implementation on the computer where it is running. This is a limitation because the script cannot check for protocols that Python or OpenSSL don’t […]
Jan 2017
I’ve been collecting PayPal phishing emails for a while, here are some of them.
Ads on mobile news sites can be ugly and annoying. Just look at these examples. With iOS 9 and a recent enough iPhone you can install ad blockers. I expect that a similar solution is available for Android. I have no idea about Windows phone users. However, many sites now detect ad blockers and prevent […]
ICICI Bank has launched a new Twitter-based banking service, only the second such service in the world the bank proudly claims. That is two too many. Some things are meant to go together, but banking and social networking are not. While many news and tech sites in India reported on this feature, most outlets faithfully […]
Sep 2014
Smartphone ownership in India has grown very quickly, going from less than 10 million to over 100 million in the past three years. Additionally, there are now over three times as many wireless broadband subscribers as wired subscribers. And yet for many Web destinations in India, mobile devices, nearly synonymous with smartphones, only account for […]
Jun 2014
Gaana, an Internet music broadcasting service based in India, recently added videos and lyrics to songs available from the service. Shazam, a music identification service, also integrates videos and lyrics for songs that people identify, or “tag”, with the app. The two services have implemented these features in different ways, and one of them is […]
May 2014
Recently Times Internet Limited (TIL) updated its music streaming service Gaana, adding features to the Web and mobile apps. TIL put out a press release about this change, and what happened next says everything that is wrong with Internet news today. As articles started showing up in news feeds, after the second or third one a […]