NetNeutrality: TRAI reveals more than a million personal email IDs, Anonymous_India takes down TRAI site in revenge
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the site http://www.trai.g...n/ was taken down by AnonOpsIndia https://twitter.com/opindia_revenge/status/5926...
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India was allegedly hacked. A group, which calls itself AnonOpsIndia, claimed on Twitter on Monday that it had taken down the trai.gov.in website through a distributed denial of service or DDoS attack.
The alleged hacking occurred hours after the TRAI revealed the email addresses of over one million people who had written to the organisation about their views on a consulation paper on net neutrality. This had made all the respondents’ email IDs potentially available to spammers. TRAI officials denied any hacking claims and said that the site was down “due to some technical glitches.”
This is a privacy nightmare. It’s a readymade database for email addresses for unscrupulous companies and it’s worth a lot of money, because most of these million plus email addresses are genuine and verified.
“I understand that it is the duty of the TRAI to make everything that they have received public since it is a public consultation after all,” says Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrashekhar who says he is taking up the broader issue of citizens’ privacy up in the Parliament. “Still, there is an obligation on them to not reveal personal details like my email address or my phone number.”
Lawyer Apar Gupta, who has been an active participant in the SaveTheInernet campaign says that publishing email address in clear text potentially leads to risks such as spamming and harassment of people who have participated in this consultation. “Even if these details were to be provided publicly, they shouldn’t have been published in a manner where they could be scraped easily by any email marketer,” he says.
Kiran Jonnalagadda, the Bangalore-based software engineer and the person who started SaveTheInternet.in had to say in:
Dear TRAI: we love how transparent you’re being in this whole net neutrality debate, but seriously, this is a massive breach of citizens’ privacy. What are you thinking?
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/trai-makes-ove...
TRAI – ‘Let the scammers scam and spammers spam’
Anonymous India – ‘Nice TRAI!’
@opindia_revenge
Can anyone please tell me why people send spam messages (I mean people (if getting any of their fun from it would get over with it after some time ; but i don’t find these spam messages getting over))
I want to know do people actually buy Viagra etc. after viewing these ads , or is this some how related to ad sense ; payperview pr payper click etc. or something else ???
I mean how is spamming profitable (other than self content/leisure etc. 
) ; considering the fact even spammers have to devote time and financial resources into this ??
Edit – Why do people make it an issue when their email id’s are shared openly ?? I mean all the spam messages go into the spam folder without even us knowing about them 
@ishandon wrote:
Off topic Q whose answer is just a google away, Please take it offline.
Meanwhile The TRAI site is back online, I hope they have not put back the emails this time. 
@cybertechie @Dr Anshuman Let me hear your thoughts on the questions raised by @ishandon.
TRAI’ians should be suspended and not be allowed to come back for mismanaging so many email addresses and not taking proper care :verybad: @B@R_0_0_D @corsair @marketdimer @no fpd @rajdesidime @SWEET_WI$H @Achilles @sence $!r@m @Alien @TronGalaxy @micke @login33 @dimepincher @Gurnani @breadcrumb .. .. ..
no wait, i got that wrong.
AnonOpsIndia should be penalised for bringing the issue to the foreground. And putting the spotlight on the said lax culture/ process at TRAI. infact AnonOpsIndia should not be allowed back in. And if ever found, then shown the door.
TRAI is sacrosanct and do not have to move an inch. Why should they
@watan ki mitti wrote:
TRAI’ians should be suspended and not be allowed to come back for mismanaging so many email addresses and not taking proper care :verybad: @B@R_0_0_D @corsair @marketdimer @no fpd @rajdesidime @SWEET_WI$H @Achilles @sence$!r@m @Alien @TronGalaxy @micke @login33 @dimepincher @Gurnani @breadcrumb
Similar to ……………. ???
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good that I used 10minutemail
didn’t bother to check whether its really sent.
@watan ki mitti thanks for the tag… first time liking @DAN ’s post for a good cause..
WE DO NOT FORGIVE, WE DO NOT FORGET, EXPECT US nice job ANON India 
The REVENGE of the TRAI… 
@DAN wrote:
TRAI brought Achhey Din for spammers by gifting this gold mine
Here we go again…
#SMH
@no fpd He duped you into voting up by not mentioning this in the first post itself. 
@watan ki mitti wrote:
TRAI’ians should be suspended and not be allowed to come back for mismanaging so many email addresses and not taking proper care :verybad: .. .. ..
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no wait, i got that wrong.
AnonOpsIndia should be penalised for bringing the issue to the foreground. And putting the spotlight on the said lax culture/ process at TRAI. infact AnonOpsIndia should not be allowed back in. And if ever found, then shown the door.
TRAI is sacrosanct and do not have to move an inch. Why should they
Umm…aren’t we reversing the roles here as far as violation of privacy is concerned? Think for a few seconds if this doesn’t strike you immediately.
so ? what wrong did i say ?
are you offended bcuz you are from Spammers Inc. ?
http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/wrote-i...
@DAN wrote:
so ? what wrong did i say ?
are you offended bcuz you are from Spammers Inc. ?
h4. Wrote in support of Net Neutrality? Your email id is now out in public for spammers
http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/wrote-i...
Like always, you very well know what you did. O fan, or should I say enemy, of “Acchey Din”!
#PoliticalSpammer
@DealSeeker wrote:
Did i attack you ? I know what I am talking and I have not asked for your analysis of my posts.
I have my own style, hate it or love it,
I suggest you ignore and stay away from my posts/threads if you hate me so much.
Stay on the topic or take a hike,
Folks. Tweet handle @opindia_revenge deserves our praise for their quick action .
Thank you #AnonymousIndia for attacks on #TRAI and crashing it’s website to protect privacy rights of a million Indians.
@DAN wrote:@DealSeeker wrote:
Did i attack you ? I know what I am talking and I have not asked for your analysis of my posts.
Stay on the topic or take a hike,
Oh the irony! You have not stayed on topic even once — you always drag and connect your political agenda somehow to everything. If you keep posting your political agenda on non-political topics, be ready to hear from me.
By the way, your politically inclined posts do not deserve my analysis, bro.
@DealSeeker wrote:@DAN wrote:@DealSeeker wrote:
Did i attack you ? I know what I am talking and I have not asked for your analysis of my posts.
Stay on the topic or take a hike,
Oh the irony! You have not stayed on topic even once — you always drag and connect your political agenda somehow to everything. If you keep posting your political agenda on non-political topics, be ready to hear from me.By the way, your politically inclined posts do not deserve my analysis, bro.
Stay on topic or u may take HIKE / WECHAT / WHATSAPP / LINE
ur choice
@bikipatel wrote:
Stay on topic or u may take HIKE / WECHAT / WHATSAPP / LINE
ur choice
+1 LoL ,
hope he gets the point now 
his comments are not even worth responding to. #ignore
For those who don’t understand its implication
The CIA triad of confidentiality, integrity, and availability is at the heart of information security
What is privacy?
Privacy may be defined as the claim of individuals, groups or institutions to determine when, how and to what extent information about them is communicated to others.
Email Privacy & Anti-spam Law
http://www.legalservicesindia.com/article/artic...
Offences & Penalties under the Information Technology Act, 2000
Section 72. Penalty for breach of confidentiality and privacy:
Save as otherwise provide in this Act or any other law for the time being in force, any person who, in pursuance of any of the powers conferred under this Act, rules or regulation made there under, has secured assess to any electronic record, book, register, correspondence, information, document or other material without the consent of the person concerned discloses such material to any other person shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees, or with both.
Explanation: This section relates to any to nay person who in pursuance of any of the powers conferred by the Act or it allied rules and regulations has secured access to any: Electronic record, books, register, correspondence, information, document, or other material.
If such person discloses such information, he will be punished with punished. It would not apply to disclosure of personal information of a person by a website, by his email service provider.
Penalties: Punishment: term which may extend to two years.
Fine: one lakh rupees or with both.
@DAN wrote:@bikipatel wrote:
Stay on topic or u may take HIKE / WECHAT / WHATSAPP / LINE
ur choice
+1 LoL , hope he got the point now
Apparently, you are the one who still hasn’t got the “point” yet.
@netboy wrote:
For those who don’t understand its implication
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Email Privacy & Anti-spam Law
http://www.legalservicesindia.com/article/artic...
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Penalties: Punishment: term which may extend to two years.
Fine: one lakh rupees or with both.
Multiply those penalties by 1 million.
@netboy wrote:
For those who don’t understand its implication
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hope some heads roll and the people responsible are appropriately punished.
My Email ID is still leaked
The thing is i dont know yet which one i had used
@DAN wrote:@netboy wrote:
For those who don’t understand its implication
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sadly this is India not US
i will just quote this tweet from the HT article.
Yes, but still we have Information Technology Act, 2000/2008
@DAN wrote:@bikipatel wrote:
Stay on topic or u may take HIKE / WECHAT / WHATSAPP / LINE
ur choice
+1 LoL ,hope he gets the point now
his comments are not even worth responding to. #ignore
You might slyly add whatever text you want without mentioning that it’s an edit, but as I said, I won’t #ignore you if you keep pushing your political agenda on even non-political topics. Capiche?
@netboy wrote:
Yes, but still we have Information Technology Act, 2000/2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_law...ia
yeah, A govt body has committed this offence here,
would be interesting to see who/how gets punished (if at all, it ever happens )
@pioneerf2 wrote:
sums it up
http://www.mobikraze.com/2015/04/net-neutrality...
Good Post, thanks for sharing
@HailStonE wrote:
The REVENGE of the TRAI…
True, but i guess its more like REvenge of the COAI
as explained here : http://www.mobikraze.com/2015/04/net-neutrality...
lobby group Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI)
COAI be like: How dare they raise their voice let them be Spammed till eternity.
Nice post