How many of us have heard of the “National Technical Research Organization”? Ideally none. Well for starters it is the commission that the Kargil committee had thought was an “absolute necessity” to stop cyber crime and track emails sent out by terrorist organizations.
According to this one newspaper article, all the old horses of the DRDO, IPS (and the sorts) are heading it. Well even in this area India seems to have chosen the grey haired paunchy uncle to the sauve and tech savvy young turk. With the recent spate of bombs blowing up Indian besiness and technical hubs, the NTRO has been caught day dreaming at its job.
Think of the audacity of the Indian Mujahideen to have sent an email just 5 minutes before detonating 17 bombs in Ahmedabad. Forget about Ahmedabad, Bangalore was also caught on the wrong foot when it came to intercepting the terrorist email ( there goes the effort of all those IT engineers down the drain !!).
After the disaster at Ahmedabad and Bangalore, Kolkata was caught in a tizzy when on the 29th of July an email, sent supposedly by the Indian Mujahideen, was received by a television channel saying that it had planted bombs in major areas of the city and would blow to splinters the High Court, Writer’s Building, suburb of Saltlake (coincidentally that’s where I live !!!) and Park Street.
And this was to happen at the stroke of 10:00 pm. It even mentioned the car and its licence number that would be used. Within minutes of this information the city was in a state of panick. And by 9:30 pm the streets of Kolkata were deserted. It seemed like Pompeii after the Vesuvius erupted.
All the babus of the KPS (Kolkata Police Services) were woken up from their slumber and seen on the streets (very rare sight !!) frisking all and sundry. So after everyone was sitting at home and nervously anticipating the loud bang…..NOTHING HAPPENED.
The breaking news was that a prankster had sent out the panick email that had gripped the city in terror. Another instance when the NTRO was caught snoozing when expected to work. Now the entire management of the NTRO is playing the blame game (as usual) and dissidents are talking of it as being a major failure.
It has an annual budget of Rs. 700 crores and this is what it churns out?? I tried finding out more about the NTRO and its policies and who all are heading it. But in vain. All I got was the full form of the acronym.
When will India wake up to the need of educating its officials about cyber law and its nitty-gritties? IT Act, 2000, has so may loopholes and is so sketchy that its a shame. We still seem to be ignorant when it comes to the internet and crimes perpetuated through it. God help us in the future. Amen!!
Mr Paul seems to be highly educated about working of an int agency and its credibility towards nation. Let’s find out about his contibution to the nation….
Mr paul, What have you done for the nation till today ? list any three good deeds.
” could you even get your hands on a flag of INDIA on 15th Aug ”
I really wonder why all critics are born only in bengal.
First correction…..NTRO is a NATIONAL body. Sanam you donot have to be “highly educated” to see what is a glaring error. And neither does have to prove his/her patriotic spirit to do so. I donot think you know about the NTRO or even heard about its existence till you read the article. Let me remind you that these people we are talking about are experts in their own fields. No one is questioning their faithfulness to the country but their ability to carry out what they been entrusted with.
Hi,
I appreciate the effort of the author and am happy to know that I am not the only one who feels nauseous about the hard earned tax money getting wasted in some bureaucratic bullshit and the %$##@$ blame games …
I did my MS in Information Security and am sure what these guys have demonstrated didnt require 700 crores /yr budget … not to mention these guys were actually given more to setup the infrastructure …. by more i mean some thousand crores … there are articles proving this on internet..
But, they returned the money as they didnt know how to use it ..
I dont blame them to hire senior police officials and DRDO officers for this job as i dont think they had any choice … and i know that these officials are shit scared as they are analog people fighting in the digital world …
Hope these officials get together to restructure the organisation and it starts demonstrating atleast some digital intelligence….
Sanam, Please dont be offended but u sound too patriotic … how about u start to list the three good deeds and tell us if u cud get ur hands on the flag on 15th aug .. and also how it happened …. I will be really interested…
hehehhee… come on … Mr Paul wasnt proving his patriotism he is just concerned as alot of people in our country about the security and safety of the citizens … alot of them are ignorant and do not know the condition of the nation as far as intelligence is concerned ..
Most of our intelligence comes from beating some “pan-wala” or from FBI, CIA or Isaeli intelligence or Russian intelligence … coz they are in the digital world … unlike us..
Once I entered the Allahabad bank HO in New Delhi only to find that there was no security in the HO.. I looked around to find a “Hanuman” painting on the wall … I and my brother smiled at eachother and we closed our account at the bank…
have a nice life..
I was just browsing the net to know abt NTRO. Gud to c atleast 3 comments and surprised that on google this sie is on the first three. I had done my Masters in Cyber Forensics with Information Security from UK. Worked with the Police HQ in Kerala and then with CDAC as a Cyber crime Analyst and also a trainee. What I come across in big organisations like Paul had mentioned is “ORGANISING” pardon me I aint judging anyone but I assume that adequate training is not given, information is not shared amoung the concerned ppl and firstly its POLITICS. I remember when i graduated from London in 2002 I wanted to give something for our nation i quit my job in UK and after 8 years came back my first step was to get into the CBI, I spoke to the director ad the first thing he asked me was what wud u do if u got this job , 4 which i told him i wud firstly bring awarness in the public by conducting boot camps and programmes and then gradually bring a change in Delhi, to which he answered ” This is Delhi my Boy. with this kind of POLITICS 1 cant change anything.
We have all the resources but the right people are not taken IN. We just cant blame officials, this is how it WORKS, I hope atleast this years elections wud bring some change.God bless India
JAI JIND
Vishnu
Stop Blame games……….
Enough is enough…….
The Govt. and all its mechinary are truly a representation of ours…
Yours and mine….
So we as a public got the responsibility for any good/bad thing happening here in this land……..
Its better we all take responsibility rather than finger at somebody else…….
Lets work together to counter all this…………
And now say……………..JAI HIND||||||||||||||||||||||
Paul, until and unless there is a frenzied need to gain an edge over the rival(terror outfits, in this case) like in privately run organizations, there is no hope that things like NTRO will ever be anything more than sleepy cows.
Plz go this link
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/1067/Defence/Spy+versus+spy.html
I think the problem is much more than we are examining over here As no one knows us knows much about NTRO I guess.
Its not as simple to trace even an encrypted male as you people think dear
And one more thing you know the costing of a radar i.e. about 1 lakh corer and i dont think so its a small amount to pay and get the desired thing and there are many more complication like they are delivered with so many power from RAW and IB(Intelligence Bureau)
they are refusing to share any of their intelligence data as such without that finding an attack by a newely established Organization is not as easy as we are thinking out..
But I hope they are planning much more harder to imply all the system perfectly…..
You can only find out when you went there as a scientist and see from your eyes whats all happening
I think they are already doing great job to make our country feel proud of them and one more thing don’t you people aware of the terrorist attack on Mumbai. you know what went wrong over there is that they are watching all the outside structure of military setting @ their necks with the Help of Live News channel report
I know people who cares about us should know whats going on but on the other way this was also helping the terrorist to succesful imply their mission.
I am setting this example because If NTRO try to provide there identity publicly then even the people by whom we are not liked by will be getting all the recenet advancement taking place in india for the safety of india. So better to keep all tjhose things hidden would an appropriate example to set up.