On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:58 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Vickram Crishna wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Vickram Crishna <[email protected]> > wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:58 AM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wednesday 21 October 2009, shirish शिरीष wrote: >> >>> in-line :- >> >>> >> >>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 21:52, Nagarjuna G. <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >>> > http://dot.gov.in/miscellaneous/publicnotice.pdf >> >>> > >> >>> > and also see this >> >>> > http://www.medianama.com/2009/10/223-indian-government-wants-telcos-t >> >>> >o-re gister-wifi-users-within-60-days/ >> >>> >> >>> This is definitely bad news for potential users of technology >> >>> (including me) >> >>> >> >>> Also, you apparently find it difficult to understand the notification. >> >>> Nobody is interested in users having passwords to log into private >> >>> networks, the notification asks for all users to be centrally >> >>> registered with the ISP. This is a backdoor method to empower ISPs to >> >>> begin identifying subscribers on the basis of numbers of users per >> >>> subscription ID, and the logical next step will be differential rates. >> >> >> >> The poster has got it wrong. The notification asks "All internet and >> >> Broadband users using WIFi connectivity" to register with the ISP. That >> >> is if you have an internet / broadband connection (that would include >> >> ADSL / LL / Dialup), AND use a wifi router, you have to register AGAIN. >> >> To get an internet connection you have to register anyway, nothing new >> >> there. >> > >> > Not quite. Here is the extract from the notification received by Tata >> > Communications, and hosted on their website (and quoted in the >> > MediaNama article): >> > >> > [I.a.iii: Licencee (Telco) shall ensure that unique user IDs and >> > Passwords do not have provisions for simultaneous multiple logins. >> > Licencee may give more than one use ID and Password to a single >> > subscriber for multiple for his Internet account >> > >> > I.a.iv: Licencee shall put a clause in Subscriber Agreement of new >> > subscribers that any WiFi connectivity deployed by subscriber has to >> > be activated only after it is registered for centralized >> > authentication with the Licencee.] >> > >> > This means not only that the subscriber has to register again >> > (naturally, as Mr Kaiz of MediaNama comments fame notes, you won't >> > mind spending that extra time, effort and paise to save your loved >> > ones from being, like Napoleon, blown apart), but that she must also >> > ensure that all her users (family members, guests) must also be >> > registered. Or else she gets the chop, chop, chop, in four months, and >> > the ISP can laugh all the way to the bank. In fact, this gives a >> > superb excuse for the ISP to cut off services to customers at will >> > (not that they really need excuses). >> >> Actually, a rather amusing afterthought: seems that the government is >> perfectly happy if subscribers use their Bluetooth phones to tether >> their broadband 3G/Edge/EVDO connections to anonymous users. HDSPA >> anyone? > > Ha Ha. Anonymous proxy on bluetooth? Dont know if cell phones have the juice > to run proxy/nat. > Newest comment at MediaNama from 'abc': [Quite obviously the govt. never heard of TOR. Nor of encryption. The cluelessness of our security "experts" astounds me. All i require to send those messages in plain old voice is a one of the millions of public phones. Aha I get it. We will use fingerprint scanners and face recognition algorithms to identify potential suspects at public phones. ]
Using my special decryption tools, also bought with unlimited funds from GoI, I think I have analysed who 'abc' is. Now go answer the doorbell. Hint: it's not a fingerprint scanner salesperson. -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
