Ed. Note: This post by Prateek Surisetti is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 INTRODUCTION Until recently, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) could not identify the type of data that was passing through their wires. But with the advent of a technology called “Deep Packet Inspection” (allows examination of data’s nature on the…
Fintech – 101
Ed. Note: This post by Mansi Meena is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 Mobile devices these days, have become a common place and they affect how financial services are offered in addition to the consumption of these services. Niti Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Amitabh Kant said “Debit cards, credit cards…
Analysis of Smart Contracts
Ed. Note: This post by Mansi Meena is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 Blockchain based smart contracts have the potential to interrupt business as well as financial technology in the same way as online commerce interfered with the offline one. Marc Anderson, co-writer of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape says, “when…
WannaCry Ransomware Attack
Ed. Note: This post by Kanu Garg is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 The hoi polloi is generally abstracted from the intricacies of the tech – world. We might check mails every day, scroll through Facebook Newsfeed every hour and Whatsapp every alternate minute, and rather proudly proclaim ourselves to be…
Cyber Warfare As An Imminent Threat And Viability Of Existing International Laws To Tackle The Same
Ed. Note: This post by Kanu Garg is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 “Indeed, in today’s world, acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists in suicide vests but from a few key strokes on the computer – a weapon of mass disruption.”[1] -Barack Obama Past few decades…
YouTube’s Adpocalpyse
Ed. Note: This post by Arvind Pennathur is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 YouTube may have started out as an innocuous platform for sharing funny cat videos, but in today’s world it is a giant in the field of entertainment; a place where people can earn a living by uploading original…
Censorship in Social Media
Ed. Note: This post by Arvind Pennathur is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it.” – Evelyn Beatrice Hall Humans, as a society, learn and thrive off each other. Initiating discourse about various topics enriches us with…
The Week That Was: 25/08/2017
In this second edition of The Week That Was, we find… The 9 Judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India unanimously held that Privacy is a Fundamental Right under Part III of the Constitution of India and gave hope to the LGBT+ community, and may have implications for SEBI’s move to link with Aadhaar,…
The Supreme Court of India unanimously holds in a 9-0 verdict that Privacy is a Fundamental Right
The Supreme Court of India in a welcome decision today held that Privacy is a Fundamental Right under Article 21 in Part III of the Constitution in a unanimous 9-0 decision. Detailed comments will come soon. You can find the judgment here, or alternatively here.
The Week That Was: 11/08/2017
In this first edition of The Week That Was, we find… Marcus Hutchins, the white-hat hacker known for stopping the WannaCry worm was charged with creating the Kronos banking trojan, a widespread piece of malware used to steal banking credentials for fraud and is accused of selling it to cybercrime market sites. He has denied any…