A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
The Rajashtan rainfall data was scraped as part of Scrapathon held in Bangalore 21st July 2011. Intially I used scraperwiki, but the huge amount of data made it to timeout all the time :) so I wrote a simple python script to do it. Data is in the SQLITE file data.sqlite, in a...
From Web of Deceit on the The Caravan A more worrying development regarding ISP actions came to light at the end of May, when the activist group Anonymous India hacked into the servers of one provider, Reliance Communication, and released a list of 434 web addresses that had been blocked. Among these were...
Working from home mostly means working from cafes. Though I mostly tether through my mobile to get onto the Internet, it’s not always fast enough. Also bigger bandwidth does attract the geek in me towards public wi-fi. But most public wi-fis are insecure (I think even the private ones are insecure). Using HTTPS...
Julian Assange in his latest episode of The World Tomorrow talks to Andy Muller Maguhn, Jeremie Zimmerman and Jacob Appelbaum. They discuss about privacy, using the internet anonymously, safely and freely, encryption technology, and the importance of web activism. Andy Muller Maguhn (web) – German hacker (Chaos Computer Club) Jeremie Zimmerman (twitter) –...
I have been using Google two factor authentication for a while. It’s probably the reason why I login using my Google id on every possible site I use. I can use a simple mobile app to generate time-sensitive one-time password (OTP) along with my regular password to login. Google authenticator mobile app allows...
CIS has a detailed blog post explaining why all of us who care about freedom of expression on the internet should support annulment motion by MP P. Rajeeve. You should actually read that blog post but the following are the most important points No chance to defend. There is no need to inform...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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