Simply Malicious Service

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Simply Malicious Service, that's how I want to redefine SMS.

The ferocity with which malicious information has spread through SMS in the latest info war against Northeast people and the accuracy with which it hit the targets and extracted the required reaction astounds everyone. It's equivalent to the launching of a successful Agni exercise.

Now, the question arises as to who has injected the deadly virus into the mobiles. While the Intelligence is after the DNA of the virulent messages and their progenitors, we have some points to ponder.

How to track malicious information in the millions of SMSs that are sent out everyday through various operators is the gigantic question before cyber specialists.

I am reminded of how some people got the vicarious pleasure in making bomb hoax calls to even schools. The government has to take severe action against such rumour-mongers by bringing out a legislation.

The new episode has added a chapter to the cyber war that has emerged as another war front. India will do well to tackle this kind of war given its information technology prowess.

Technical issues apart, are we as a nation not tolerant to cultural differences and identities? Those who are intolerant and want to keep their identities only should hang their heads in shame for not rising above 'narrow domestic walls.'

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