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10. Look who wants to read your emails

When Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) launched BlackBerry in 1999, within no time the revolutionary mobile device that enabled users to browse the Net, read emails in realtime and send fax documents earned the nickname, CrackBerry, an allusion to its notoriously addictive features.
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11. Warriors of the e-world

CYBER LAW : In 1820, the world recorded its first cyber crime. Nearly two centuries later, cyber crime is something which is affecting the lives of millions of Internet and computer users. Be it actress Esha Deol declaring that someone created a false profile of hers on www.facebook.com, young girls unwittingly getting caught in the web of e-pornography, embezzlement of funds through e-commerce, or even your own e-mail password being hacked—anybody can be a victim of cyber crimes.There is a growing demand for cyber lawyers in India. Says Pavan Duggal, advocate, Supreme Court of India, and president of www.cyberlaws.net, “It would be inaccurate to say that there will be shortage of work. In fact, there are a lot of new and interesting cases that pose real challenges for lawyers."
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12. Substitute the term digital signatures with electronic signatures

Cyber law expert and advocate, Supreme Court, Pavan Duggal, too opines: "The government has proposed to substitute the term digital signatures with electronic signatures that will widen the scope of the term. Till then, digital signatures will enjoy dominance in the field." Duggal, however, says "there is quite a bright future for digital signatures in India till about 2010
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13. Digital signature project to be put on the fast track

NEW DELHI: In a move to speed up the process of allocating digital signatures to individual users, the government plans to review the implementation process for the initiative. A survey has been initiated to identify problem areas creating roadblocks in speedy allocation of digital signatures. "We have started a survey of the implementation process and expect to get it completed by the end of September after which we would start reviewing the process.
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14. Justice in Cyberland

In the Sankap case, I was able to convince the Delhi High Court to permit my client being the plaintiff to sue an unknown credit card number as a legal entity, which had been misused for criminal purposes," says Pavan Duggal, Asia''s leading cyber law expert and advocate, Supreme Court, who has been practising cyber law since 1995. Sounds bizarre? Welcome to the world of cyber crime! Cyberland — the online world where criminals are at their creative best and ingenious minds device the most spectacular ways to get through the ''safest'' security systems and ''foolproof'' passwords that are boldly proclaimed as invincible!
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