DailyPost 2557 TELECOM SERVICE PROVIDER’S BACKDOOR In the cyber world there is backdoor to everything and wherever it is presumed to have none, the hacker’s collective will create one. At time on feels the world is at the mercy of hackers, that they can hack everything, but don’t end up doing it, for reasons best […]

DailyPost 2556 AND NOW INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT Getting hacked in the new normal has become a truism of the digital world we live in and we are so proud of. It has brought innumerable conveniences, that the world is so radically different today from what it was a decade or even a few years. It

DailyPost 2555 AZURE’S 38 TB DATA LEAK If you thought that the loss of data, misuse of data and exposing data to the public domain are the handiwork of hackers only, then you are badly mistaken. It happens in various ways, unknown the users / stakeholders and coming to light long after the damage is

DailyPost 2554 QUALITY OF THE PRACTITIONERS Like any other art, science or expertise, its growth, name, reputation, credibility branding depends on the type of practitioners and more so the leading ones and the highest positioned ones. Whether the nascent art of democracy in this country was able to find quality practitioners or whether we were

DailyPost 2553 THE POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT GAME Democracy and empowerment go hand in hand to an extent that the basic operation of democracy is dependent upon the nature of empowerment ushered in. The harsh reality is that democratic empowerment revolves more outside the polling booths and polls, than being fully depending on them, barely following the

DailyPost 2552 FROM EQUALITY TO EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESERVATION Democracy is presumed to be a thinking machine, having the capability to keep improving itself in its entirety. Any incremental improvement year on year on principles, processes, attitudes, conventions and practice keep on adding up into a democracy which becomes one of its kind. You can call

DailyPost 2551 MANAGING ORGANISATIONAL MINEFIELD Lots of studies and research have been conducted on organizations and every issue related to it. Organizations have been the main of focus of management, from the nimble ones, say a startup to trillion-dollar corporations to gigantic governments to MNCs operating in most countries in the world. Neither have theoretical

DailyPost 2550 EXECUTIVE IMMUNITY What does the term executive immunity mean? It is not mentioned in any of the legal statute, but is practiced with total impunity, day in and day out. It eats into the vitals of the system and is at the core of basic sense of distrust in the executive. Executive immunity

DailyPost 2549 LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS The legislatures should be known by the quality of legislative business they transact. This is a very common expectation of the electorate. That is not the norm is also a well-accepted fact. Conversely, it’s the least known fact, which should have been the truism of every democracy by now. Does quality

DailyPost 2548 THE MEDIA STORY The biggest media story of recent times, has been The Media Story. Media has been the most studied organization; what it does, how it does, why it does, do they any commitment to any cause and lastly, are they as commercial and biased as any other organization. Unfortunately, there are

DailyPost 2547 INDIA – FOURTH ESTATE’S CENTER OF EXCELLENCE From the Indian Express of the emergency days to editor in chiefs of fame, whose editorials we drooled over in college days, to India Today coming out of nowhere and establishing itself, to NDTV a little later, simultaneously creating a niche for itself in a short