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BharOS, India’s answer to Android, may not be as ‘secure’ or competent as you think

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A cosmetic clone

BharOS, however, appears to be nothing more than a simple ‘find and replace’ job where strings originally referring to ‘GrapheneOS’ have been collectively replaced with ‘BharOS’ instead, raising questions about the intent, integrity, and competency of the team involved with its development. Claiming technology developed by open source contributors as part of what was painted as an ‘Atmanirbhar’ effort is disingenuous. It invisibilises the labour and intellectual property of open source contributors.

The BharOS project might also be in violation of the open source software licence with which GrapheneOS is shipped. While the GrapheneOS licence does permit use, modification, and redistribution of the source code, it also requires that the licence be further included in any modified distribution of the source code. The same software licence was, however, conveniently omitted from the BharOS repository.

The claims surrounding the security and privacy features of such a project should also be taken with a grain of salt. This is primarily because of a fundamental security flaw that is introduced when existing open-source software projects are forked. Vulnerabilities uncovered in the upstream (parent) source tree for a project become harder to patch in the downstream (child project) source tree, due to divergences in the code of the two projects.

This essentially means that any security updates released for GrapheneOS might not result in simultaneous security updates being released for BharOS, if at all. 

These concerns highlight the importance of transparency, ethical conduct, and respect for the contributions of others in the realm of open source technology development and innovation.

Technological mysticism

Professor V Kamakoti, director of IIT-M and a long-time proponent of BharOS, said at a that BharOS would “revolutionise the way users think about security and privacy on their mobile devices”. The Press Information Bureau, reporting from the same press conference, wrote that BharOS was already “being provided to organisations [with] stringent privacy and security requirements”.

Apart from his association with BharOS, Kamakoti is also a member of…

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How to keep your IoT devices secure

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Investment in the Internet of Things (IoT) is booming. By 2027 it’s predicted that there will be around 30 billion IoT devices globally, double the number from 2022. IoT isn’t new but its growing popularity is down to companies being able to automate processes and reduce labor costs during a time when operational spend is at its greatest.

All great stuff but on the flip side, the more interconnected your environment, the greater the attack surface for cyber gangs to compromise. Each connected IoT device offers possible entry points for hackers and malicious threat actors, through misconfigurations and other unpatched errors. Just last month Microsoft uncovered instances of cyptojacking, through affected Linux-based IoT devices, an online threat that embeds itself within a device and uses its resources to mine cryptocurrency, also known as cryptomining.

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Shark Tank Season 15 LIVE — Fans praise Arepas and ‘can’t wait to try them’ as Meggings fails to secure a deal

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Thousands of individuals apply to be on show

Shark Tank can receive more than 100,000 applications every season, through the show’s website or during open casting calls to “audition, according to MentalFloss.

The show has around 31 episodes per season and producers are usually looking to fill close to 100 slots.

TJ Hale, the host of Shark Tank Podcast, which follows up on contestants and keeps a log of show statistics says “The odds are against you,” appearing on the show.

Get to know the sharks: Robert Herjavec

Robert Herjavec is a businessman born on September 14, 1962, in Varaždin, Croatia.

When he was seven, he and his family moved to Canada, where he later graduated with an English and Political Science degree from the University of Toronto.

Herjavec is the founder of BRAK Systems, a Canadian integrator of internet security software.

He sold the company to AT&T Canada in 2000 for $30.2million.

Three years later, he founded the Herjavec Group, which is one of the largest information technology and computer security companies in Canada.

Herjavec has been featured on reality TV series such as CBC’s Dragons’ Den and Shark Tank.

Get to know the sharks: Daymond John

It is believed that businessman and motivational speaker Daymond John has a net worth of $350million.

“Daymond John has come a long way from turning a $40 budget into FUBU, a $6 billion fashion game-changer,” reads his website.

“Throughout his career, Daymond has continued to be an entrepreneur in every sense of the word.

“He is not only a pioneer in the fashion industry but a Shark on the 4-time Emmy Award winning Shark Tank, a New York Times best-selling author, branding guru, and highly sought-after motivational speaker.”

FUBU is an American hip-hop apparel company launched by John and others. FUBU stands for “For Us, By Us.”

Get to know the sharks: Mr. Wonderful

Kevin O’Leary was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on July 9, 1954. The 68-year-old is a businessman, author, politician, and television personality.

O’Leary has appeared in the business news programs SqueezePlay and The Lang and O’Leary Exchange.

Since 2009 he’s been a main cast member on ABC’s Shark…

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IIT-Delhi researchers achieve secure quantum communication for 380 km in standard telecom fiber, ET Telecom

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New Delhi: IIT-Delhi researchers have achieved an experimental breakthrough on secure quantum communication up to a distance of 380 kilometres in standard telecom fiber with a very low error rate that can be helpful in securing financial transactions and secret codes. This long secure length is the highest achieved so far, not only in India but globally, for the Differential Phase Shift (DPS) QKD protocol, according to officials.

The results of the research by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi researchers has also been published in the “Nature Scientific Reports” journal.

“Such low quantum bit error rate (QBER) makes the quantum communication resistance to collective and individual attacks and implementable for various applications, such as securing financial transactions, medical records and secret codes,” said Bhaskar Kanseri, lead researcher and associate professor at IIT-Delhi’s Physics Department and Optics and Photonics Centre.

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“It is also capable of securing network communication such as Internet of Things (IoT) and ready to revolutionise the field of cyber security,” Kanseri said.

He added that this realisation using state-of-the-art technology will not only help in reducing the need for trusted nodes for intercity or long-distance quantum key exchange, increasing the security of the cryptography scheme, but also prove to be a crucial step towards the commercial production of long-distance secure practical QKD devices.

In quantum communication, security is guaranteed by the laws of Quantum Physics and, in principle, it can not be broken even using a quantum computer, Kanseri explained.

“This QKD demonstration shows methods to get rid of the intermediate trusted nodes, which are the weak security loopholes and are vulnerable to several kinds of attacks. It paves ways for more secure long distance communication useful for strategic areas such as defence and online banking, making digital transactions safer in the near future,” he said.

  • Published On Oct 6, 2023 at 07:27 AM IST