Tracker Gets A Visit From Hacker!

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http://new.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=4621

Nivedita Mookerji
Friday, March 15, 2002

New Delhi:  One crime that the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)  
will not like to enter in its own computerised data bank is the
hacking of its own site. The nodal agency of the home ministry - NCRB
is perhaps too busy chasing distant outlaws, completely ignoring the
one at home.

The home page of NCRB, http://ncrb.nic.in, has links to most of the
state police departments. But what one finds in the link to Calcutta
Police (NCRB has not changed to Kolkata yet) is something that NCRB
would not like to investigate — sure methods of increasing virility
and sex drive!

The hacker seems to be of American origin or at least has US
connections, considering that the pornographic material is typically
yankee in nature. Therefore, for a minute, one can pardon NRCB. For,
it happened with the link to Calcutta Police that was involved in the
investigations of the recent American Centre incident.

But what surprises most is that while the hacker uploads the page
daily, NCRB has obviously not visited the site for days on end. If
they have, and have yet not carried out any action, it calls for a
bigger explanation. Maybe, like the Indian politicians, the police
also takes action only if a foreign hand is suspected. And if it is a
neighbourly foreign hand, the action is faster. But then, will
Calcutta Police continue to boast the drive of a different nature?

Technology is the new buzz in Indian police. Whether in criminal
investigation or traffic management, IT is the mantra.

But the mindset still seems to be old and rustic.

Some of the cases that the cops have solved with the help of IT have
become a folklore in the Indian Police history.

Senior officers are ever so willing to take a pat on the back for
cracking the match-fixing case in cricket and Phoolan Devi’s murder
with the help of IT.

But will someone please stand up and own up the responsibility for not
having checked the Calcutta Police site?

This hacked site was discovered just when NCRB officials were busy
explaining the IT initiative in the high profile home ministry agency.  
For their claims.



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