Jasjit’s Cyberoughts

Crude prices touched a high of USD 128 before retreating to a little over USD 124 on May 16, 2008. Rising crude prices have created a lot of problems for governments and businesses around the world. Countries like India have to contend with increasing import bills and rising prices of essential commodities, partially because of high oil and gas prices. Experts have warned that oil prices might touch USD 200 making personal transportation and goods depending on oil even more expensive. However, I feel that there is a bright side Read more »

Despite being an information security consultant, I violated one pillar of information security (Availability) and committed a cardinal sin of not backing up my website and blog configuration when my service provider informed me that they are planning to move this setup to new hardware.

Several things went wrong with the migration. The backup team forgot to restore my DNS zone and database. Consequently I was offline Read more »

I was amused to read these comments from Yale environmental law professor Daniel Esty in the article “When poor people pollute - the Tata Nano and eco-crime” published in The Register UK, on Februrary 12, 2008.

In this article, Mr. Etsy said “It’s small, it’s cheap, it’s low emission so… the arrival of the Tata Nano, India’s new ‘people’s car’, has been greeted Read more »