1989-2009: Great Wall of Silence

Inside the Dragon
Source
Hindustan Times

I found an article in Hindustan Times and pretty amused by the fact that the PRC(People Republic of China) Govt. is still hiding the exact number of sudents and workers killed when bullet and millitary tanks crushed a pro-democracy protest in Beijing on June 4, 1989 infamously known as "Tiananmen massacre", Twenty year after 1989, China is the world`s third largest economy and a regional Super power attracting billions of FII`s but still the power of word "Freedom" is absolute or we can say blurred in communist china, millions of chinese still don`t even know that lives were lost that night on Tiananmen Square, nobody knows about the famous "Tank Man" Time`s most influential(Top 20) man of that year.

One of the talking points inside China these week is not June 4, but a little-known chinese company`s aquisition of the hummer brand from General Motors, students graduating these year are interested in discussing the job prospectus, not government reform and when asked about june 4 incident, they firmly said about a Communist party member`s mentioning that students had protested over "income inequality", the Party had controlled the counter-revolutionaries, and shot some fires for the sake of stabillity. Nobody told them that there was aa death troll and they don`t care to know the details.

Thus after 20 years from that massacre China`s Great Wall of Silence ensured that the 20th anniversary was incident free as censors are installed to filter foreign channels/news and even social community sites like orkut, twitter etc. After going through article I asked to myself - "Is it good to be a Regional Superpower or Economical Hub of the world at the cost of their own people.???". PRC Govt. assuring a country of more than billion people of fulfilling their aim/aspiration to lead each and every dimension of economy/technology etc. without unfolding a blackspot of their past.

China Gears Up For Cyber Warfare

Cyber-Warfare also known as Cyberwar is the use of computers and internet in condusting warfare in cyberspace[1], now china is gearing up for that, making their systems reluctant to those cyberwars. This is article is based on an article published in Washington Times as "China Blocks US From Cyber-Warfare"[2] .
China has developed more secure operating software for its tens of millions of computers and is already installing it on government and military systems, hoping to make Beijing's networks impenetrable to U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
The secure operating system, known as Kylin, was disclosed to Congress during recent hearings that provided new details on how China's government is preparing to wage cyberwarfare with the United States. As the specter of “cyber warfare” grows more vivid, US policy makers and security specialists are rightly concerned at the fact that China is taking such direct action to protect itself from potential foreign information warfare threats — that this may set the US at a disadvantage.
If China installs a secure operating system on all military PCs, The H reports that China claims the design of the OS is proprietary on its official "Kylin Website"[3]. The H also reports that:
an analysis of the code (Chinese page link) in the kernel indicates that it is in fact a hardened version of FreeBSD 5.3.
While I could paraphrase the message, The H put it succinctly:
This has lead to concern over the state of open source development in China. Furthermore, the advisor said that US systems, which use off-the-shelf American software, such as Microsoft products, open source software, and foreign applications, would be less secure and more vulnerable to back doors allowing access during “times of war”.
The harsh truth of the matter is that corporate influence in government has succeeded in retarding the progress of information technology advancement in US defense policy by weighing down decision making processes with political favoritism. Meanwhile, the fact that Chinese government officials are not beholden to powerful public corporations frees them from the kind of untoward influence that has resulted in software acquisition contracts motivated more by reëlection concerns than by security concerns in the US. All too often, the selection process in US government specifically excludes all options except a very few vendors for software acquisitions. The result is that China appears to be well ahead of the curve, selecting the best OS for the job regardless of vendor influence in the West.
When the US Department of Defense is the target of no fewer than 128 information infrastructure attacks per minute from China, and we discover that while DoD is almost universally using off-the-shelf Microsoft Windows systems while China is engaged in working toward 100% military deployment of security hardened FreeBSD, it becomes clear that there’s definitely something wrong with US information security policy.

References:
[1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-warfare
[2]. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/12/china-bolsters-for-cyber-arms-race-with-us/
[3]. http://www.kylin.org.cn/index.php

I Can`t Find My Blog

Guess what will be the most frequent asked question(faq) for a novice bolgspot blogger???.......and the answer is "I can't find my blog/site on Google: Where is it?" yup that was the obvious question in my mind when i first created a blog "Beginning of Cold War II" and after going through several articles, i got an insight of all these things and now i want to share my experience with all of you and one more thing is that, though this blog is dedicated mainly for Intelligence breifings and serious concerns regarding the explosive military growth of China. I am posting this article under this blog because it`s the most important part for a novice blogger to get everything started, ya this article helps to list your site/blog on Google.

To be very simple, Google maintains an "Index" like an index of a book and serves to your query [ for e.g. if search keyword is "Indian army" then it will lookup for that searchword in index" ] and based on the relevancy of results pages are displayed, so your sole aim is to register yourself to that index. In google`s term relevancy/popularity depends on 200 factors and is popularily known as "PageRank" to be simple it defines the importance of your page on the web, greater the page rank more appealing your web page and greater chance of indexing. Second thing is Googlebot(an algorithmic program) uses "Web crawlers" - Web crawlers are mainly used to create a copy of all the visited pages for later processing by a search engine that will index the downloaded pages to provide fast searches, so greater crawling to your website/blog means frequent updation of index of your page.

Many bloggers think that they create a blog at Blogspot and it will automatically be listed. If only things were that simple, you should be able to understand the importance of Search Engine Optimization(SEO) i.e. optimize your site such that(generally by using Meta Tags) it will top the list of search results, as the earlier the site appears in search result the more visitors it will recieve from the search. Now we have covered a short introduction on Google. It`s time for action :

Step 1. The first way to get listed in Google is to use their "Add URL" form located at: http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Step 2. Another good way to help Google find your blog is to get a backlink from a site that Google has already indexed. A backlink is an incoming link from any website or blog pointed to your blog. As crawler will crawl through this link.

Step 3. If you haven't done so yet, submit a sitemap of your blog "Webmaster Tools" to increase your site's visibility in Google. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=2172a84d24b88442&hl=en Here`s a link that will also provide useful checklist/information while dealing with Webmaster`s Tool.

Step 4. You can ping them directly. http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

Step 5. My personal opinion is that browse through two or more sites and post comments on them especially on this site http://bloggertricks.com/2008/01/wowhow-fast-google-crawling-this-site.html#comment-form, though comments are generally not followed by crawlers but i personally believe that on some site it works, it`s a way of providing back links i.e some other`s site who is now well indexed is pointing at you.

One more problem, I have faced is lazy updation of my site on Google's index....I update my site frequently but it`s hard to index them on google, but I learnt that if you have many inbound links to your site and lot`s of patience then surely you are gonna make it....google wants content - I found it the most important of all above steps if you really have some serious contents on your site/blog then you appeal a lot to Google....above of all is to notify google everytime(1-2 hour gap between two notification is necessary) you update your blog/site by "Resubmitting" to Google. I think this article will help you on resubmitting....you hav to just send an HTTP Request to google. Here`s is the link for it http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34609

Note: Above findings/research are true to my knowledge but if I am wrong at some point then please inform me about it by posting comment...because what I personally believe "You learn, I learn and together it will be a discussion"

Below are some links for - Increasing PageRank/Blog Promotion/SEO/Crawl Rate Increase :

[1]. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/10-ways-to-increase-your-site-crawl-rate/7159/

[2]. http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42377

[3]. http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42541#howuse

Threat`s of Indian Subcontinent

When I am writing this post lot of things are going around the world and mainly in subcontinent -Victory of Srilanka`s army over LTTE(Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelem) and now is troubled and helpless unable to come to terms with its minority(Tamils), Pakistan continues to be inimical, struggling hard to come up from it`s civil war, well talibani`s are also making their life miserable. Nepal is troubled but may return from the edge as it experiments with democracy. Bangladesh remains unstable, violence prone and radicallized. Mynmaar is busy with it`s internal conflicts and democracy still strives against military government, India will see another 5 yrs. of UPA Govt. in action pressurizing Pakistan to stop lending their land for terrorism on the other hand counter check china`s military growth, but unable to resolve internal conflicts/war against naxalites, ulfa and other sepratist. India`s largest neighbour China, is powerful, aggressive and ambitious, now it`s 20th anniversary of Tianmen massacare and china is aggresively trying to cover his black spot of the past by censoring media/internet.

Leo Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina begins with the famous sentence: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The Indian subcontinent is somewhat like this. A collection of unhappy neighbours - unhappy with each other and unhappy among themselves.
Mistrust among neigbours, Ambitious Military plans in the shadow of High Defence spending, Blody wars and Aspiration of becoming Regional powers makes the subcontinent more vulnerable than volcano, it`s unstabillity poses some serious threats. As China, India and Pakistan are the three major players especially China and India are economical/military superpowers in the subcontinent, all of them are Nuclear tipped and having sophisticated and ambitious military strength/artillaries enough to destroy each other, thus making the subcontinent more prone to theatre of World War III. China is now the world`s largest arms importer(according to CIA), India also hikes their military budgets to cope with it`s strategic needs and do not underestimate Pakistan, it spends 60-70% of it`s GDP to counter India. There is more and more to say on it all these facts are like tip of an iceberg, from past few years these three major players are involved in serious arms race and trying to establish Detterence either Nuclear or Strategical(like acquiring military base/ports), thus implying to all of us that is the "Beginning of Cold War II" in the Indian Subcontinent.

Indian Subcontinent will be the theatre of World War III, it is the most unstable region in the world. Mistrust between neighbors, Aspiration to become Regional powers, Bloody wars etc. lead to hike in Military Budgets, Arms race and Nuclear Detterence in the Subcontinent and much more as it is the "Beginning Of Cold War II" in the Indian Subcontinent. We appreciate others participation in this blog, please contact us at inqlaab.zindabaad@gmail.com