X-No-Archive: even on such BASIC things government has hard times holding their pants up and they talk about e-governance, distributing-verifying citizenship via Internet etc, wtf its a ticking bomb waiting to explode. At lest, i don't want to see my personal details stolen!
since 2005 government sites has been cracked 53 times! And they don't even acknowledge. Does our "right to information" would guarantee government would least acknowledge this issue? Most of the time, such issue are taken as minor and sorted by the technical staff. Like any government projects (say bridge construction) there should be someone responsible to assure all basic standards are enforced both on development (programming) and maintenance, but they tend to follow stay clueless think safe procedure. When there is a debate on such issues policy makers are used to saying first lets launch their so-called w0w idea then we'll think about security concerns on the matter latter. What they fail to understand is security related implementation should be enforced and inherited from ground-up from the foundation of a project... or its a failure in the news today: http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=131665 KATHMANDU, Dec 18 - Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a grant of US $ 9 m for the development of information and communication technology (ICT) in the country. ... The technical assistance will help reshape the role of the ICT research institutes in knowledge development and capacity building for community and business development, the ADB sources said. ----------- i will tell you exactly how this money will be spend. Government will pour this money in their so-called e-governamce idea, spend it on commission and doing parties in name of seminars and developing ICT infrastructure. They will also spend it on creating softwares and infrastructure for government costing millions but worth ZERO benifit. .....i am done saying, or i fear i'd spend days comenting in this very issue :P -bipin ps: i would be really pleased to see noone quote my email while hitting the reply button or remove the line like... On Dec 18, 8:08 am, Sulabh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: from the original quote. Just a request to all :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I dont think the Government will think about this, > > I have seen the health ministry site cracked and was informed about > that, but not giving the response on that for the long time. > > I wanna say a scenario (its a real one) about a minister (present) was > in a seminar in African country. There he was granted a Pen drive. > When he returned, what he says to his nephew was amusing "See this > what they have given to me in the seminar" and that was handed to his > nephew. > > How can we expect from those ministers who have not seen Pen Drives > will work in making the policy about the cyber crime and digital > security vulnerabilities . > > VCG(virus) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
