Daily Archives: 7 April 2010

The media, the message, and the messengers

The Booker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy‘s 31-page, 19,556-word essay “Walking with the comrades” in Outlook magazine*, has produced a fast and succinct response from the journalistic Twitterati after Tuesday’s dastardly ambush of paramilitary forces by said comrades. From top, NDTV English group editor Barkha Dutt, Pioneer senior editor Kanchan Gupta, Indian Express columnist Tavleen…

Chinese hackers break into The Times of India

*** On Monday, Canadian and American computer security researchers announced they had unconvered a Chinese cyber espionage gang that broke into classified documents of the Indian defence ministry, Indian embassies, and Indian corporate houses like Tatas and DLF. From some reports (here, here, here) it appears as if they also hacked into the systems of…