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Merxius software.
Digital Locker
In Dropbox, Google drive, Mediafire you can store your personal files on
cloudnetwork.
Digital Locker aims to store certificates in governments cloud (online hard disk).
For example, you store your birth certificate online and provide only the link when
you apply for passport.
Maharashtra government already launched Maha Digital Locker where you can
login with your Aadhar id. This website can directly upload your certificates to third
party website- during job application, passport registration etc.
Microsoft CEO Nadella wants to help implement this technology at all India level.
Pro: Paperless operations, no need for photocopies and attestation by gazetted
officer.
Anti: Concerns about online privacy and security.
Antikythera Mechanism
What?
Where? It was found in a shipwerck near a Greek island called Antikythera, hence the name.
Who? This bronze instrument was built by Greeks >2000 years ago.
Features?
Complex clock like mechanism with ~30 gears and dials. Being called a computer
doesnt mean it had electronic chips!
Experts are still divided over who invented this computer and what was its main
purpose?
Regin, or Backdoor.Regin
What?
Who?
When?
Difficult to detect because of its advance stealth features, and even after detection it is
hard to find out how exactly Regin is damaging the system or whom is it sending the
database?
It uses Modular approach similar to Stuxnet, Flamer, Duqu etc. blockbuster malwares.
Given its complex mechanism, Symantec experts believe it was created by a government
Most of the targets were non-Western nations (Russia, Saudi, Iran, India, Pak) so
perhaps a Western country could have designed it. Although American agencies believe
this is handiwork of Russian or Chinese hackers!
Regin malware has been circulating since 2008, but American anti-virus companies detected it
in late 2014.
Virus
Worms
Trojan
Spyware
Spam
Phishing
Problem
Solution
But same software also detected in human right activists and NGOs from third world
countries.
A German NGO built this free anti-surveillance software for Windows-OS, called
Detekt.
Detekt software helps people find whether their system is infected or not?
Although Indian NGOs need not worry much because our intel-agencies cant even
maintain a proper facebook page, let alone running mass-surveillance programs
How?
Nanodots behave as semi-conductors and acilitate the battery to absorbe and retain
electricity efficiently.
Although technology is not yet ready for commercial production. These Nanodot-enabled
batteries are too bulky and expensive.
What?
Ezhil is not mere translation of codes from C++/Java etc but it accepts logical sequences
similar to spoken Tamil.
Logbar Ring
E.g. open SMS, type messages and send emails without touching your phone or tablet.
What?
Merxius software
Who?
What?
They designed a software Merxius, for Augmented Reality (AR) with help of
google glass.
For example, while wearing google glass, if you look at a machine or gadget, itll
automatically fillup the screen with instruction on how to operate or repair that
gadget.
Why in
They won Aegis Graham Bell award for this software.
new?
Mock Questions
4. Detekt
Answer choices
A. Only 2 and 3
B. Only 2, 3 and 4
C. Only 1, 2 and 3
D. All of them
Q6. Correct Pair
A. Finspy: Surveillance tool
B. Detekt: Anti-Surveillance tool
C. Both A and B
D. Neither A nor B
Q7. Whats the use of Logbar ring?
A. It is a medical device with embedded GPS chip to trace persons suffering from
Alzheimer or Dementia
B. It is a special plutonium ring meant to control the chain-reaction in nuclear
reactors.
C. It is a newly discovered belt of asteroids by ISROs Mars Mission.
D. None of above.
Q8. Ezhil Programming language is written in ____.
A. Telugu
B. Tamil
C. Kannada
D. Oriya
Mains: General Studies Paper-3
1. Explain the mechanism of White-fi technology and its significance in removing
digital divide in India. 150 words.
2. List the applications for nanotechnology in electronics and IT sector. 150 words.
3. What is Digital locker? What are its application for E-governance? 100 words.