I have been hearing a lot about Cyber
Terror but have remained untouched by it so far. God is kind to me and
my friends who have just heard of this phrase or read it in the
newspapers. Anyway, let us see for ourselves what it entails.
The electronic communication on the
Internet belongs to the Cyber ream. As and when one plans to use or
misuse the cyber realm for an act or omission causing Terror in a
section of people anywhere in the world, it is called Cyber Terror. It
can be used for sending Emails, real or fake, to people known or unknown
to a single terrorist or a group of terrorists, it is a simple use of
cyber facility in furtherance of an act of terror. Sometimes Emails are
sent to mislead the police investigation like it was done by some
Islamists from Kishtwar,J&K after the bomb blasts on the Delhi High
Court premises in Sep 2011. The investigating agencies were lucky to
catch these kishtwari operators from their area of operation. Thus the
lion was bearded in its own den.
WHO RULES CYBER WORLD
HACKING of websites and Email IDs are
other effective ways of perpetrating cyber terror on innocent citizens
and preventing them from pursuing their normal activities Thus a group
of cyber terrorists succeeds in disrupting normal communication by
illegally interrupting it to spread a sense of cyber panic. The aim of a
terrorist group is to disrupt normal life of peaceful and innocent
citizens thereby undermining the authority of a lawfully established
govt. When the government of a country is at the receiving end time and
again, people lose faith in it and the terrorists gain the upper hand.
If terrorists of the cyber realm succeed in hacking websites,
interpolating their ideology in the text of a govt sponsored website and
thus dominate the thought process of the citizenry, the weak government
becomes weaker and eventually fades into oblivion. The cyber world is
left open to perpetrators of cyber terror and they rule the roost.
An effective govt that has a head with a
robust personality will never allow cyber terrorists to make inroads
into its domain. It is the government that should call the shots in the
cyber realm and not the cyber terrorists. The common man is an
intelligent entity and understands what is going on around him. Neither
the cyber terrorists can fool him nor the govt of the day; least so an
ineffective govt headed by a meek man who is remotely controlled by an
extra-constitutional authority. The situation obtaining in India that is
Bharat amounts to courting national disaster and handing over the reins
of the country to cyber terrorists and the Islamist terrorists. The
worst sufferer is the common man.
CYBER SEX
The far South of India gave rise to a
term Love Jihad. No less an institution than the High Court of Kerala
was constrained to draw the attention of the government of the State and
other Intelligence agencies that a sinister plot of enticing young
nubile girls of the Hindu and Christian communities by Muslim youth
harnessed by anti-India forces was taking roots. Young and charming
young Muslim males enrolled in the colleges, made friends with poor
young girls of the Hindu and Christian communities, lured them with
lucre and prospects of cosy life abroad provided they converted to Islam
and married the enticer. The simple girls fell for the promised land
that was never to materialize. Once they became Muslims they were thrown
into crowded harems of unfortunate convertees and languished there
unless a social worker or a philanthropist of their original faith
rescued them from the virtual hell. When they lodged FIRs against their
fake friends of college days, cases were investigated and the Hon’ble
High Court of Kerala intervened. Justice Sankaran Nair ordered the govt
to launch a thorough investigation and stop the deceit going on in the
name of Love Jihad.
The Cyber Communication played a major
role in initially enticing young simple and poor girls by sending them
emails leading them up the garden path. In many a case the text of
Emails was such as would titillate adolescent girls, excite them
sexually and motivate them to experiment with sex at no cost. Little did
the simpletons realise that they were about to pay for momentary
pleasure with ruination of life. Cyber Sex leads juveniles astray
because they have no past experience in this field. Parents and family
elders fight shy in talking sex to young girls of the family. However,
the sexual desire and its manifestation cannot be suppressed for long.
The sexual desire erupts psychologically and physically among both boys
and girls and they commit major mistakes in choosing sex partner through
computer contacts. These contacts made in the cyber world turn out to
be worse than the blind dates of the western hemisphere. The cyber sex
indulged in quite innocuously becomes uncontrollable and leads to
physical sex that has disastrous consequences.
CYBER LAWS
At the beginning, cybernauts who
intruded into the privacy of others were hard to detect. A few were
clever by half and the local police that was computer illiterate could
hardly detect commission of an offence, leave alone prosecuting culprits
and having them punished by a court of law. The new generation was
quite computer savy and knew how to hoodwink the authorities and get
away with an infringement here or an infringement there. Moreover, as
usual the executive and the legislature took time to coordinate their
acts and bring bills before the Parliament to be enacted into laws to
provide protection to the law abiding citizens and bring culprits to
book.
The Cyber Terror was the most important
angle to be taken care of by the govt. Absence of duly passed Acts of
Parliament was indeed a boon to the cyber terrorists. However, their
honeymoon was over soon when suitable laws were enacted to deal with the
cyber terror appropriately. Of course, some nationalist forces in the
play are of the opinion that the laws dealing with the cyber terror
should be more stringent so that it is a deterrent to them. The mild
mannered citizens feel that a beginning has been made, prosecutions
under the cyber laws are being launched and amendments may follow taking
into account experiences gained in dealing with cyber terror so far.
After all it is an ongoing process in the human society.
The Cyber Terror is here with us. It is
not going to be wished away. Our social order and the government of
India have to deal with it jointly and unitedly. The problem of cyber
terror must be faced squarely and not by playing ping-pong and shifting
the responsibility every now and then. The blame game has no place in
the realm of Cyber Terror and it has to be fought on a war footing and
there is no alternative but to defeat it.
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