Cyber War: A menace to the society
The article named: "Cyber Wars" published in CJR on 10th November, 2005 talks about the civil unrest in France leading to a cyber war. The link is as follows:
In both New York Times and Washington Post it was published that French bloggers were arrested and the website of a popular radio station Skyrock was shut down. The reason being they were involved in provoking the mass to disrupt the normal lives by spreading violence. Many blogs carried various provoking messages like "Go to the nearest police station and burn it", "All the housing projects should rise. The wait is over. Friday, Nov. 11, a meeting under the Eiffel Tower. At 2 p.m. Show up, it’s important."
It becomes very difficult for the security officials to catch hold of the bloggers but if its required, then the administration will never take any steps back and will go ahead with the decision. Its very difficult to catch a specific blogger in a sea of bloggers, but there are many instances where the administration in France was successful to catch hold of the culprits.
Censorship is very important and is required very much to deal with this kind of cases. So, there should be a proper followup done by the administration to make sure that the laws are strict and people who are spreading non violence should be taken care of.
Indian context
Recently
through the spy work China had exploited the secretly kept armed safety related
documents from India. It is said that our security systems are not so much upgraded to defend such type of cyber penetration. The
number of cyber safety officers under the government system is restricted to merely 556 but at the same time more than one
lakh people are doing the same job for China.
Since 2004 Chinese attacks on other countries including India is purely based on the spy work named Advanced Persistent Thread (APT). APT is a theft of digital documents by sending controlled programmers via email or pen drives.
Till date no such major actions has been taken by Indian government to combat with this issue. Even its contextualized as cyber war, but the repercussions of this war is very effective. It can dismantle the whole Indian population.
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