Mumbai to Keyloggers in all Cafes ...

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iMav

The Devil's Advocate
Seems to me like a fallout of the adnan case and terrorism ...

The Indian city of Mumbai hopes to fight terrorism by installing keyloggers

All Internet cafes in the Indian city of Mumbai will have police-sanctioned key-logger software installed on their machines to help combat terrorism. With a population of 13 million residents, cafe owners only in the city of Mumbai will be forced to install the software.
All cafe owners will be forced to register and receive a city license from police headquarters, reveal the number of PCs located in the location and Internet protocol (IP) addresses for all of the PCs. Any cafe owners who do not register can be fined, with harsher punishments possible.
The announcement follows bombings in Hyderabad and Mumbai that were reportedly organized in Internet cafes.


"The police needs to install programs that will capture every key stroke at regular interval screen shots, which will be sent back to a server that will log all the data," said Vijay Mukhi, India Foundation for Information Security and Technology president. "The police can then keep track of all communication between terrorists no matter which part of the world they operate from. This is the only way to patrol the net and this is how the police informer is going to look in the e-age," he added.

Privacy experts and bloggers around the world point out different methods criminals can use to remain anonymous. A CNET blog indicates the use of proxy servers and Tor could be two potentially popular methods to get around the keyloggers.

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din

Tribal Boy
WOW

Idea is good, but

"The police needs to install programs that will capture every key stroke at regular interval screen shots, which will be sent back to a server that will log all the data,"

Hmm ... Logging everything literally !
 
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iMav

iMav

The Devil's Advocate
u think they will go thru everything .. they will do it after catastrophe strikes
 

Choto Cheeta

Rebooting
who will pay the extra bandwdith cost ?? whats the gurrenty of my private data like Account info, Credit Card information ??

There are to many ifs and buts... to me its the worst Idea for Users atleast... !!!

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Choto Cheeta

Rebooting
Its not if, Indian Police servers.. :lol: u can imagine how secure they them self are :lol: its almost certain the all info will be leaked, info like Usres CC info, Private emails... :(
 

~Lil JinX~

*Basket Case*
Oh come on...the forces barely do their current duty properly now, and they're going to monitor millions of screenshots? Phu-leeze
 

it_waaznt_me

Coming back to life ..
And you think those fatheads sitting in cybercells will be able to sift through *all* the data they'll be presented with ..??
They are really very pesimistic about Mumbai's cybercafe usage .. Let them get the first installments of all the keylogger's data and then we'll see what they are able to find out ..
 

Yamaraj

The Lord of Death
iMav said:
The Indian city of Mumbai hopes to fight terrorism by installing keyloggers
How about fighting terrorism by putting everyone in prison?

Nothing but another blow on individual privacy by the very government voted elected by the people.
 

ilugd

Beware of the innocent
oh. bullshit. How about filing an rti on how they are going to deal with privacy issues on the information thus collected. For how long data will be stored and stuff. Definitely suing material. :)
 
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