Advocate (Dr.) Prashant Mali's Blog

Digital Address Code (DAC) as address for eKYC, property tax, online shopping ! The Department of Posts, Government of India, is in the process of creating an unique  Digital Address Code (#DAC) as a  proof of address  which can be used for booking an online delivery or for paying property tax.DAC would help in digitally authenticating an address. --Currently, Aadhaar is commonly used as a proof of address. But the address mentioned on the Aadhaar card cannot be digitally authenticated.  --DAC would be an unique address identity and is usable by all stakeholders.  DAC is expected to identify each address in the country uniquely and link the address to its geospatial coordinates represented numerically or alphanumerically. --DAC is proposed as a solution. It would be an input that could be keyed in or captured out of a QR Code by apps of service providers and would be cognizable by digital maps. --However, in the case of sensitive establishments, the DAC may not ...

  Deep Web What it is ?  By Prashant Mali The surface web is the entire Internet for most users, but it represents a fraction of available content. The surface web is that part of the Internet that is accessible by standard search engines, either by indexing, or through use of the site’s IP address. By contrast, the deep web is unfamiliar to most of the public and is larger by orders of magnitude.  Characterised as the submerged part of the iceberg, researchers describe the deep web’s size in various and conflicting ways: over 96 percent of content on the world wide web, unguessable, 7500 terabytes, infinite, and 500x the size of the surface web. Although imprecise, these estimates indicate that the deep web contains much more content than the surface web. Generally speaking, the deep web is the content not indexed by standard search engines, like Google. The only U.S. court that has attempted to define the deep web, described it as follows: "The por...

Why does India need a Data Protection Law? Apart from appeasing European Union for sharing data with Indian companies, One of the reason is presently all Data of ours -Search, Emails, Chats of Google, FB, Hotmail, Whatsapp are stored in Californian Servers, USA Jurisdiction. US Foriegn Intelligence Survivelenace Court (FISA) with a single penstroke court gag order can take all Indian MPs, PMO, Home Minister,MEA's etc Email data and Analyse them for leverage in Intl' Affairs, Thats a severe Threat, #privacy intrusion.  Not to mention even the Locations of each Citizen,Official in India can be monitored by US NSA analysts as of now with #Whatsapp, Android Phones relaying data back to USA servers.  Hence a Data Protection Law in India is a need of the Hour. " How to turn Android Phone or Tablet into a Server " .You can check it out here -  https://joyofandroid.com/use-old-android-phone-as-server/

Is Credit or Debit Card  PIN a Electronic Signature as per the Law ? For Lawyers across the world, click and wrap agreement i.e. the act of ticking an icon in the shape of a box to accept the terms of a contract can hardly count as a form of signature. In the physical world, that must be right. Similarly, it might be questioned that a personal identity number (PIN) can also be considered to be an electronic signature. Arguably, the PIN combines two functions. Before considering the two functions, consider the requirements of the bank. The bank needs to satisfy itself that: 1. The card is legitimate (this is difficult to achieve, as the reports about fraud demonstrate), and 2. The card is in the possession of the customer to whom it was issued, or a person authorised by the customer to use the card. If the bank satisfies itself that its computer systems are interacting with the card issued to the customer (which is not always the case), then the computer system...

IoT Malware Types Revealed  The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating a new environment where malware can be used to create powerful botnets.  Recently, IoT devices have been used to create large-scale botnets—networks of devices infected with self-propagating malware—that can execute crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. IoT devices are particularly susceptible to malware, so protecting these devices and connected hardware is critical to protect systems and networks. Linux.Darlloz The Linux.Darlloz was discovered in late 2013. The worm exploited an old PHP vulnerability (CVE-2012-1823) to access a system, it escalated privileges through default and common credential lists, it propagated through the network, and it established a backdoor on the system. While the original malware only infected computers running Intel x86 chip architectures, other versions were designed to target ARM, PPC, MIPS and MIPSEL chip architectures commonly used in Io...