Monday, February 02, 2009

I think it must be there in every Indian citizen's mind but I thought I should just put it down in a paper. Right now its 12:33 am in the morning and I have just finished watching a news channel. I must write this that I am not very happy citizen with the way things have happened late. The way Election commission controversy has been erupted is not good for democracy in anyways as it is a foundation of democracy which should be away from the influence of corrupt political parties. The response from the government which I believe has been presented to the
public in technical jargon of constitution is not helping the cause very well. But the issue which I want to focus is not about who would be the next CEC(Chief election Commision) as it is very clear from the governments stand.

The issuse which I want to focus is not related to Indian constitution or any governments policy blunder. Since general assembly polls are announced and as any other responsible citizen I am in touch with the present political Mahabharat

Some days ago I just happen to read an article in which it is said that left can think of a fresh relations with congress but that will be decided after the polls and this is the part which I am failed understand. Hence I am writing this post to ask from people to please help me in understanding this calculation.

Take a case of West Bengal and think from the voter's point of view. Lets say voters are not satisfied with the ruling party's governance which is leading the nattion. Now here is a party which has just broken alliance with the ruling party and has shown strong opposition to the
policies made by ruling party. Since it has broken its alliance with it voters put its faith in this one of the opposition party and votes for it. now this opposition party has won some seats in West Bengal. Now the voters think that central government will change as it has voted for the different party. But they both come together and form an alliance between them again. As both have contested polls against each other., voters comes out as a shear looser.Voters have voted for a change and this is what the voters get . The same government is back in power because of opportunist and greed of parties. the same case is applicable to other states as well where parties like Samajwadi party party fights election against congress and supports congress after polls desperately to somwhow be in power in central government as it has no chance to come back to power in state elections .

I think its high time that people should raise to the occasion and understand the mathematics behind these political parties and vote for a party which is not full of contradiction . I appeal to the political parties to place themselves in a such a way that voters can diffrentiate between them which will help them to narrow down on selecting the party .

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Its been quite a good time since I had started working on online authentication security solutions. I reckon not many companies are dealing in such a vulnerable and sensitive area of internet world even though there are good chances of improvement.

I have talk to many people about the possible threats and attacks right from client machine to channel security compromises. I have found that people want to use internet facility but they don't want to go technical about it. They want companies to deal these problems. At the same time they want technology which is easy to use and understand.

There are so many possible ways to steal users credentials that it becomes very difficult to make something which fits into users requirements with no compromises in security. To tackle every problem, makes the application little complicated to deal with. To make their applications user friendly companies often compromises with the level and range of possible venerabilities.

There is one more thing which I have noticed that its easy to use complicated solutions in Indian market than to US market . The reason is , In US people of different age group uses online transactions very often compare to India where this range is limited mainly to young educated professionals.

ICICI's online authentication system asks for two static passwords in addition of grid numbers for a transcation. ICICI's grid technology is a fine example of one of the complicated solutions working in Indian market. I think this technology for deceiving people as it has same level of security as they were providing earlier with 16 digit CCV numbers.

Monday, March 03, 2008

Its been a quite a long time since have written anything so I thought it would be better if I write something which I am currently doing from last couple of months. The framework I am working on is called BZByte. This framework is based on MVC architecture. May be I am the first person in offshore business to work on it. Its a very old framework but never got famous may be because of its marketing stratagy or complexity. Its a web based framework written in Java. This framework can be nightmare for a social websites but can be a useful for big organizations where reports, analysis and security is a major concern rather than performance.

This framework is a fine example of excellent engineering and programming skills. The Idea behind this whole project is to use benefits of Java swing framework in web applications. In fact this framework has improved upon some of the features in swing. Developer with good knowledge of HTML and Java swing can make a web application very fast using this framework.

Before deciding on this framework its good to know that there is no good documentation and help available on the Internet. ;)