Facebook and Law strings

1.   The way Facebook has made an impact pan globe in most of our lives is undoubtedly phenomenal.Facebook has become a way of life for many who are addicted...it gives us a medium to express self in the digital world with a digital self avatar.It is seen that people who remain silent in their physical lives may become more verbose on Facebook...people who generally remain non reactive in informal group discussions become unexpectedly high on expressing themselves ...and so it be that for the first few years when every one was expressing loudly on the Facebook ...it didn't matter but now with the IT act and laws propping up in each country...things are not so easy to express.Each time anyone expresses anger or happiness over something... it is associated and linked with a act which may or may not be legally authorized.Here in this post ahead I bring you few FAQs which each one of us will associate with our lives and associated punishments effected as per IT act 2008 amended (India).

FAQs ex ROHAS NAGPAL @ http://www.facebooklaw.in/

Is it legal to ridicule a Government official or Minister on Facebook?

NO. This is a very serious offence and could get someone in jail for life! And unlike what is shown in Hindi movies, life imprisonment means imprisonment for life and not just 14 years! Ridiculing a Government official or Minister on Facebook could be illegal under the following laws:

Sedition
Defamation
Sending offensive electronic messages

Plus, if the Minister or official is a woman, it could also be covered under indecent representation of women

Is it legal to ridicule a celebrity or even an ordinary person on Facebook?

No. This is a serious offence and could get someone in jail for upto 3 years! Ridiculing a celebrity or even an ordinary person on Facebook could be illegal under the following laws:

Defamation
Sending offensive electronic messages

Is it legal to ridicule a religion on Facebook?

No.This is a serious offence and could get someone in jail for upto 3 years! Ridiculing a religion on Facebook could be illegal under the following laws:

Promoting enmity on grounds of religion8
Outraging religious feelings9
Wounding religious feelings10
Sending offensive electronic messages11
Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration

Is it legal to call someone an “idiot” on Facebook?

No.This is a serious offence and could get someone in jail for upto 3 years!The dictionary meaning of “idiot” is a “person of low intelligence” or a “mentally deficient person”.Since it is impossible to prove that a person is actually an “idiot”, calling someone an idiot would amount to defamation and would be punishable under two laws:

Defamation
Sending offensive electronic messages

I have ordered some stuff from a famous ecommerce website. They have not sent
it even after a month but my credit card has been charged for the transaction. Is it legal to post my complaint about this on my Facebook wall?

Is it legal to open a Facebook account in a fake name?

No.This is a serious offense and simply creating the account in a fake name (or someone else’s name) makes the creator liable for 2 years imprisonment.If the person sends even one message, posts one comment or sends even one friend request using this account, the liability could be another 3 years in jail!Simply creating the account in the fake name (or someone else’s name) amounts to forgery.If the account is used, then it amounts to sending offensive electronic messages.Further if the fake account was created for the purpose of harming someone’s reputation, then it amounts to forgery for purpose of harming reputation.

If I use asterisk marks instead of abusive words, can I still get into trouble?

Yes.Even if you use asterisk marks (e.g. instead of fool, you say f**l), if the meaning is apparent, then it would be punishable with upto 3 years imprisonment.

 

As a joke, I have put a morphed photo of my friend on Facebook. She has taken
it as a joke, but her father is very angry with this. Can he file a case against me?
What kind of posts can land me in prison?

Yes.If her father finds it offensive, he can file a case and it can be penalized as “sending offensive messages” and is punishable with upto 3 years imprisonment.If the photo is obscene then there is an additional liability for 3 years imprisonment.

Someone has sent me a threatening message on Facebook. Is that a crime?

Yes.Sending threatening messages on Facebook can be penalized as “sending offensive messages” and is punishable with upto 3 years imprisonment.Additionally, depending upon the threat in the message, additional punishment could vary from 2 years imprisonment to 7 years imprisonment.Additionally, if the threatening message is sent using a fake account (or in any manner to hide the name and details of the sender), then an additional 2 years punishment can be given.

FAQs ex ROHAS NAGPAL @ http://www.facebooklaw.in/

HACKER EDITION SPECIAL : SEDULITY Operating System

1.     How many of us and those who are live wire updated with the Cyber security have heard of ethical hacker editions of any DVD with all hackers dream collection vide one window.When we speak on such editions foremost comes like Backtrack(ethical), Backbox ,Samurai Web Security Framework, Bugtraq, Nodezero etc. In this post I am introducing you guys to a relatively unheard Operating System by the name of SEDULITY OPERATING SYSTEM. I just got a copy from the originator Dr Anup Girdhar who holds a Ph.d in Cyber Security. I have recently installed it on a Virtual Box and believe you me I am yet to install any third party tool....coz everything I need is already inside.Definetly a good distro for beginners in this field. Here I bring you the basic installation screen shots and few details of this edition of OS.

2.     Sedulity Solutions & Technologies is India’s first organization, who have developed and patented a "Flavored Operating System" in five different flavors including -

• Corporate Edition
• Developers Edition
• Ethical Hackers Edition
• Forensics Edition
• Gaming Edition

3.    Sedulity OS Ethical Hackers Edition is an exclusive creation that helps the Security Professionals to perform Penetration Testing and vulnerability Assessment in a purely dedicated environment. Sedulity OS-Ethical Hackers Edition is meant for all those Researchers, Hackers, and Security Professionals, who wanted to do hands-on, in various platforms of technologies with all the Latest tools Pre-Deployed in it.

 In the next post will bring you screen shots from inside the OS...bringing you interfaces of the tools available in the OS.

DEFT : Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit Live DVD

1. DEFT (Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit) is a customized distribution of the Ubuntu live Linux CD@12.10. It is an easy-to-use system that includes excellent hardware detection and some of the best open-source applications dedicated to incident response and computer forensics.DEFT comes bundled with DART2 (Digital Advanced Response Toolkit) and the very best open source Windows Computer Forensic tools. Using LXDE as desktop environment and WINE to manage Windows tools under a Linux kernel, and a mount manager as tool for device management, this distro has a loyal following and we encourage you to use it.DEFT seems to be very well supported with a long list of official developers and contributors. The main developers seem to be a mix of professors, forensic (legal) experts, consultants, engineers, network specialists and more. Several law enforcement professionals are also associated with this project making it a forensics tool of choice for Information Security professionals. According to their site the distro is designed to be used by anyone working within a Response, Cyber Intelligence and/ or Computer Forensics capacity.

2.   Further to this very basic intro I give you here the screenshots as I set it up live on my virtual box.

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3.   Details at http://www.deftlinux.net/

Ubuntu: How To Create an ISO Image from a CD or DVD?

1.   For Ubuntu users this small post gives u a single line command on how to create a ISO image from a physical CD/DVD.

2.    First step is to simply load the CD/DVD.

3.    Second step involves opening the terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+T

4.    Check where is the CD/DVD mounted by typing "lsblk" without quotes as seen below in a sample shot.

 

5.    Type Execute the following command: cat /dev/sr0 > /home/endhiran/Desktop/kali.iso where /dev/sr0 is the device name for your drive.

                

The disc will begin to spin and the ISO image will start being constructed. Once it has completed, you have an ISO image of your CD. To verify that the image was properly created, mount the ISO file and check the contents.

CLOUDUSB : Another way to secure yourself....

1.     "Cloud" has been easily the most buzzy term in past few years for the computing industry. Case in point is the CloudUSB distribution, a project that promises to provide automatic backups and data along with privacy protection. The cloud name is catchy but the security is far less than promised....it is actually a USB-based Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS(though old but works for general user..now I m on 14.04 LTS though). The idea is that you can carry your own Linux distribution with you for use anywhere, thus allowing anyone to use Linux on any computer and keep their data safe in the event the USB key is lost.

2.    CloudUSB uses the Dropbox service to synchronize data, so users who don't already have a Dropbox account will need to set up an account before being able to use the synchronization service. CloudUSB sets up a data and private-data folder for keeping sensitive files in. The setup.sh script that comes with the distribution uses encfs to set up an encrypted directory. It appears the script isn't properly encrypting the directory, though. When the system is rebooted, it does use encfs to mount the Dropbox/private-data directory as Desktop/.private-data. A step by step screen shot is shown below...i run this on a Virtual Box....and this can be downloaded at http://cloudusb.net/?DOWNLOAD

and there you are ready sett...go!!!!!!!!!!!!!