Hello all,
    As I was researching some material for my previous post on Moser Baer, I did the usual Googling for Moser Baer, and to my complete astonishment, I got this Malware warning from Google when I clicked on the displayed search result.

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    The search result on clicking, redirected me to this warning page, instead of the Moser Baer website.

    So I read a bit up on such warnings and I found an explanation for the warning on a Google Web Search Help Center page. To my further surprise, the page said -

We want our users to feel safe when they search the web, and we’re continuously working to identify dangerous sites and increase protection for our users. This warning message appears with search results that we’ve identified as sites that may install malicious software on your computer.

    You HAVE to be kidding me! Or is this another outdated April’s Day prank? One of the leaders in Optic Disks in the world, and the pioneer in HD DVD disc manufacturing, has malware on their corporate website?!!

    Well, I trust Google to a certain extreme, thus I sat down and went through every bit of code in the Moser Baer website. Nope. No malicious scripts. No unsolicited codes. No malware. No spyware. Not even ads!

    What is Google playing at? Does this mean that the feel good programmes by Google need a little more in depth viewing and manual touch?

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Hi all,
    The Pirate Bay (www.piratebay.org) - a very comprehensive torrents website, was hacked today. Or rather, cracked.

    The cracker evidently found a security hole via the blog, and was able to obtain a copy of the entire user database, including passwords, email ids, the works. Fortunately, the email ids and passwords were encrypted (how strongly, we can only imagine) and this will prevent, or atleast delay, the cracker in his nefarious deeds.

    If you are a regular PirateBay user, please read THIS post at the PirateBay Blog, and please change you PirateBay password as soon as possible. PirateBay also advices users to change any other passwords which correspond with the PirateBay password.

    As an outsider, the most interesting thing is, a line in their blog…

Some people (and yes, we know who) found a security hole on our web site (in fact, actually in this blog).

    They know who? Thats cool. Then why don’t they sue him/her/it? Their lack of legal action seems ominous… Makes us wonder whether its an inside job?! Or was it just a terrorist action, not intended to harm, just to spread terror, and get demands done?

    Very interesting…

    Anyone got any clue to whats happened and who did it? Dash an email to me [mohan AT bloggingindia DOT net] and if its worthwhile, I’ll make it worth your while with some cash delivered right into your PayPal!

    So start pirate hunting

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Hi all,
    Early today, the NASA unveiled a model of their latest - James Webb Space Telescope. The JWST, the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope, according to scientists, will be able to see to the farthest reaches of the Universe, reports BBC UK.

    NASA had plans to get rid of the Hubble telescope last year, but gave into to public sentiments, and let it be. The JWST is supposed to replace the 17 year old Hubble telescope.

It will be larger than its predecessor, sit farther from Earth and have a giant mirror to enable it to see more.

Officials said the JWST - named after a former Nasa administrator - was on course for launch in June 2013.

The full-scale model is being displayed outside the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the US capital, Washington DC.

It was recently shown off in Seattle at the American Astronomical Society meeting.

    The JWST has been named after James E Webb, Nasa Administrator during the Apollo lunar exploration era(1961-1968). Placed 1.5 million KM from the Earth, it will be kept in the Lagrange Point 2, an area of gravitational balance that will keep it in a Sun-Earth Line. Its supposed to be more sensitive to infra red radiation, due to “staying cool” as the effect of a shield. Primarily deployed to yield new information about the initial formation of stars and galaxies after the Big Bang, this telescope is set to break the boundaries in space imaging, just like its predecessor, Hubble Space Telescope.

    So lets wait for about 6 more years, and see what information about the primordial universe this beauty can bring us.

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Hi,
    The Indian Government is at a near-impossible task. Making a laptop for $10, and giving it to the children, under the One Laptop Per Child scheme. Reportedly, the manufacturing cost of a low cost laptop has reduced to a mere $47, and can be reduced further.

    This is an initiative by the world’s largest IT employee supplier to begin tech education at a younger age.

    Lets hope that this aim achieves fruition soon and make our country truly computer literate.

    You can read more on the news at TGDaily.

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Hi all,
    Today, the first message which highlighted my email inbox displayed “Facebook becomes NETLOG”!

    Yes… The very famous and popular social networking site, Facebook, decided to close their accounts and be acquired by Netlog.

    They have introduced new features like Music sharing (as in ILike) and something they call “Friendslog”, which is, as far as I could figure out, an idea similar to that of viewing all threads Digged by your friends in the social bookmarking, and user driven content site, Digg.com .

    Netlog also seems to have an array of languages, will a cool theme. Though I dont appreciate the volume of ads they have.

    Why was Facebook, a web 2.0 startup which was doing so well, acquired by Netlog, something which most of us havent heard of? We’ll wait and see…

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