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Originally posted by MikeboydUS
Originally posted by XxibelievexX
Trust me, India isn't gonna go on war with Pakistan.
They could have on multiple occasions in the past. But they never did and never will.
Never did?
They had three major wars: 1947, 1965. 1971
One minor war in 1999 and almost went to war in 2001, which the US prevented for reasons not entirely clear.
On the sidelines of an event on event on 'Ethics, Governance and Technology', India's young and tech-savvy junior IT minister Sachin Pilot said the government had asked websites like Google, Facebook and Twitter to install "real time" monitoring system for national security.
While on the face of it, the request looks like just another of India's attempts to monitor terrorist activity, a closer inspection reveals that it may be more than that.
The whole "real time" monitoring conundrum has its origins in India's telecom laws. Under them, all telecom operators are supposed to have a facility, to be made available to the government on request, to listen to any conversation made by anyone in India over the phone.
Over time, voice simply became another form of data as telecom networks converted all voice conversations into the Internet traffic for ease of shipping. Not to be outdone, the government, over time, introduced newer and newer clauses in Internet (ISP) licenses that required all Internet offering companies to be able to "monitor" the content passing through their network.