MY Blog hits : 3,00,000 plus :-)

Exactly about a year back my blog got the 2,00,000th hit and today it is 3,00,000 plus. So I assume an ok traffic since technical blogs do not have the glamorous and mass factor associated....I got into blogging without knowing any thing about traffic and readers and then maintaining a blog when you are working also is at times difficult.This actually means the time you could have spent with your family is being spent on blogging.But then as we say "Purpose is the reason you journey and Passion is the fire that lights your way."...and so has been applicable to me.Simply the passion to study and share IT and experiment with tools and researches has been the force for my energies being put in here.Putting here some past shots and analytics ex Google :

20 Oct 2015

 05 Oct 2013

 02 Nov 2014

FEW STATS STRAIGHT FROM GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Increase over years

 Page  views by countries

 

Page-views by Browsers

 Page  views by Operating Systems

1 millions plus Profile Views

1. When you look at your profile on Google, you can see your total number of views that means you can tell how many times your content has been seen by other people, including your blog posts and profile page.When you look at someone else’s profile or page, you can also see their total number of views. 

2. Just crossed a Million plus views on my page.....incl blog...thought to share.Not a big deal though viz a viz established techno blogs who have hits in billions....

My profile at https://plus.google.com/+AnupamT/posts

 

VPN: Graduating to NECESSITY!!!!

1.   Years back in India some where in 1990's...computer was still a rich men's possession...so was the case with plain mobiles graduating further to smart phones..but over the years today both are part of routine possession of every one...PCs/Laptops/Tablets today have entered almost all domains of most of the minutes we spend with our eyes open...whether it is office...studies... entertainment.. personal life... everything...The growing dependence has made new problems too...prime being PRIVACY.The privacy issue has recently taken a more serious note with so many Cyber Espionage operations coming in open...wiki leaks happening...Snowden out in open with his story ...government backed cyber traffic monitoring projects incl few as mentioned below :

    PRISM
    ECHELON
    Carnivore
    DISHFIRE
    STONEGHOST
    Tempora
    Frenchelon
    Stellar Wind
    Fairview
    MYSTIC
    Bullrun
    Upstream
    

2.   The above list is actually endless with specific aims of collecting information in form of call records,location mapping,building profiles....all happening in the name of building Intelligence for the safeguard of respective individual nations.There is no way one naive citizen without a tech background of any country can safeguard himself from all above operations and projects.In recent times.....VPN has been increasingly showcased across various forums and even by the likes of Snowden and Julian Assange who have used it in their routine transactions of email...Skype and messaging someone..

VPN is a network that is constructed by using public wires — usually the Internet — to connect to a private network, such as a company's internal network.  There are a number of systems that enable you to create networks using the Internet as the medium for transporting data. These systems use encryption and other security mechanisms to ensure that only authorized users can access the network and that the data cannot be intercepted.

3.  Now with the growing paranoia and due concern of Cyber Security and Privacy in general public too,the option of VPN has started gaining due focus....with free VPN Services in abundance...like openvpn, freevpn, vpnbook,Shrew Soft, Comodo Unite and the free/basic version of Hamachi etc...the lure is only becoming more tempting. Most people are coming out of the typical mindset of VPN being only a corporate protocol for business travellers and people who work remotely.VPN is thus gradually moving from an option today to a necessity.The good thing is that even the paid VPN services are not so costly to make an impact on pocket.With a VPN configured in ur PC/Laptop...u r rest assured safe from prying eyes of free wifi zones at Coffee shops or places like at airport.

Does VPN imply 100% Safety for the user?

4.   Like all security solutions, even the securest of VPNs can be compromised surprisingly since if the user is keen enough/careless to download malicious files, which is why the onus lies finally with the user habits of surfing safely.A VPN only makes sure that the traffic from user end is encrypted from third party eyes...it does not defy the need for Anti-virus software’s which are primarily responsible for detecting Virus/Malwares etc

My blog hits : 2,00,000 plus :-)

Exactly about a year back my blog got the 1,00,000th hit and today it is 2,00,000 plus. So a decent traffic by a technical standard since technical blogs do not have the glam and mass factor associated....I got into blogging without knowing any thing about traffic and readers and then maintaining a blog when you are working also is at times difficult.This actually means the time you could have spent with your family is being spent on blogging.But then as we say "Purpose is the reason you journey and Passion is the fire that lights your way."...and so has been applicable to me.Simply the passion to study and share IT and experiment with tools and researches has been the force for my energies being put in here.I bring out the stats here of the 2 Lakh hits from Google Analytics.

Blog Page showing visitor count 

Rise over years

 Country wise state of visitors

 Browser state of users

 Operating Systems of users

BIGGEST SPYING CENTRE:NSA@USA

1.  At a time when we all realize the cyber traffic movement monitoring around us via hackers,spies and the government....this will come as a news...a big news....

2.  National Security Agency,where else but United States of America ,is engaged building and ramping up the largest Spy center in the history of the world.Special points that I read about this upcoming centre are enumerated below for ur info :

-  To be completed by September 2013.

-  This will make NSA the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever.

- Will be able to intercept your private emails, cell phone calls, internet connections and Google/Bing searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital litter 

-  To be located at Bluffdale.

-  Also known named Utah Data Center.

- Main purpose to tap, decipher, decrypt, analyze, and store Brobdingnagian Yotta bytes of the world’s communications as they take place across international,foreign and domestic networks.

-  Approx investment@$2 billion.

-  Realization of the “total information awareness” program initiated by Bush administration.

-  Also critical for breaking and decrypting codes to decipher encrypted financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal document etc.

-  This will consist of 100,000-square-foot halls filled with servers, complete with raised floor space for cables and storage excluding more than 900,000 square feet for technical support and administration.