BEWARE

[Guest mehtab]

just read this in the news...thought of alerting everyone

http://headlines.sify.com/2615news2.html?h...~threaten~women

Peeping Toms use Webcams to threaten women

Pune: Shalini (name changed), a college-going girl, was about to take a dip in the swimming pool at the Sanskrit Vidyavikas Vidyalaya's pool in Pune on Sept 12.

Before taking the dip, she had the mandatory bath in the changing room of the pool when she noticed a tiny hole in the wall of the changing room which was the size of a door keyhole.

There was something unusual about it. She went and had a closer look only to find that it was a web camera.

Quickly she changed her dress and went out of the changing room and found that a cable wire was coming out of the room which led to the office of the Manager of the swimming pool where a computer was kept.

Her worst fears had come true. Someone was taking pictures of the women in the changing rooms and storing it in the computers.

She pushed away the person siting on the computer and began checking the files in the computers. She found pictures of women changing their dresses stored in the files.

She immediately alerted the police and soon the manager of the pool, a 21-year old boy, and two others, including a woman were arrested and booked under Section 67 of the Information Technology Act 2000.

Shalini got to know about it and made the culprits pay for their crime. But there might be several oth

er Shalinis who might not even be aware that someone is making use of this technology with a sinister motive.

It could be in the hotel bathrooms, bedrooms or any swimming pool. The scope for misuse of these electronic gadgets is wide. These cyber peeping toms pose a potential threat to both men and women-especially the latter.

While some do it for erotic thrills, others engage in it with more dangerous motives - to blackmail or to send photos to pornographic websites and make money.

The fallout of the web-cam incident was that the Joint Commissioner of Police M S Mahesgauri ordered inspectors in-charge of all 20 police station of Pune to carry out checking of swimming pools to ensure that privacy of swimmers was protected.

Advocate Debashis Nayak, consultant at the Asian School of Cyber Laws (ASCL) in Pune feels the only protection against these cyber criminals is to understand the technology, be aware of the scope of mischief and to be on guard.

For instance, people routinely install web cameras on their computers. But a woman staying in a one room flat in Mumbai who did it had to pay a heavy price when she unwittingly downloaded malicious programme from the internet.

This programme used to activate the web camera when her computer and net was on and started sending pictures from her room to a website, Naik added.

There are programmes in the net which activate the web camera from a person's computer and send pictures from the room to some website or a distant computer without the person least suspecting.

Private moments can be caught by these web cameras causing untold suffering to the victims.

Such programs that give hackers remote access to computers are known as Trojans. To prevent oneself from Trojan avoid downloading any files from the net that are not recognisable as they may hide Trojans which one will not be in

a position to see, according to Nayak.

In Tamil Nadu, an ex head of the orthopedic association of India was accused of giving anesthesia to his patients and then taking pictures of them in compromising positions and later selling the same to websites, said Nayak.

The ASCL had prepared a Computer Crime & Abuse Report(India). This report analysed 6266 incidents of computer crimes and abuse from Jan 1, 2002 upto Dec 2002 and came up with interesting findings.

Almost 60 per cent computer crime incidents are likely to occur in the first six months of a year. The occurance of computer crime incident is most likely in September and least likely in August. It is more likely on a Monday, Friday or Saturday and least likely on Sunday, according to the report. PTI

other links to same news :

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/919_397827,0018.htm

http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?I...nfotech&rLink=0

[Jkaur]

oh my god the world is really getting worst day by day :umm:

[Guest balwinderkaur]

that is DISGUSTING. :umm: shame on them. whats the world coming to????

[me moorakh mugadh]

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

once i was seeing discovery channel they showed that some girls those who are hired by these pronographic as*ho*** the girls goes to ladies toilet an fix the cameras inside the toilet, no one can be suspisious abt it but this racket has been exposed the pic are then (u all can understand) :umm: :umm: :D

[Mukh Har Har Har Boleeia]

Oh my waheguru ji :D wat is dis world comin tooo an wen willl ddis all stop :umm:

waheguroo jis gonna teach em a big leason :umm:

wahegurooo ji HeLP DIS KULJUGI WORLD