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Cybersecurity & AI | Angel Investor | Singapore based - APAC Cybersecurity Sales

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Chinese disinformation and anti India propaganda is real and it’s targeted to make sure association with India or anything Indian is considered as inferior.

We may not feel or see it - TikTok is banned in India so you won’t know how bad it is. But Chinese Bot farms spreading disinformation is real, and getting the attention now from GoI to address it.

Singapore government had to intervene and issue strict guidelines against racist and anti India social media content.

In the long run as brand India gets impacted via targeted disinformation, you will see it percolate to more racism and hatred..

Dehaat mindset, municipal level corruption and poor urban cleanliness of public spaces does not help our case.

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@nightbeatsdrop No - with affluence and discipline come better diet and sports - Netherlands and China both went through this - average height of men increased with industrialisation. India is going through the same in pockets of affluence.

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@aravind They are “loyal” to creating shareholder value - that drives their own compensation and is their charter.

Indian Millennial founder CEOs may act and choose differently - in a few years.

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@shruutie @grok With Sadhana you can go a level higher and be a spiritual Guru. Read more on Shri M.

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@LOLrakshak @darthdevi Is this Halloween costume? 🐡🦀

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@AmberDawn_44 Pluto lost its status as a planet. What a way to be counted.!

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Marauder’s map was so utterly magical to read about in Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban - published long before first smart phones came about… people grew up on it, read it and decided Google should make it! And Google funded it.! amazing.

Imagine all the things geeks are building today with AI and robotics - that’s one reason I remain long Elon and long SpaceX - we are living inside a comic strip.

If you can imagine it, someone is building it.

[starmex @starmexxx]

Claude Code found my wife's private photos and videos on 3 websites she never uploaded to. then it found a hidden app on my 13 year old daughter's phone sending her entire camera roll to a server every 6 hours. both found in the same scan.

someone sent my wife a link to a site she'd never heard of. her photos and videos were there. original files from her camera roll that were only ever on her phone.

i connected her iPhone to my MacBook and ran Claude Code. it found an active iCloud session logged in since March 2023.

IP → 116.25.***.91
location → Guangzhou, China
device → Windows 10 Pro
last sync → 6 hours ago
recovery email → x*****[email protected]

someone got her Apple ID from a leaked database and synced her entire library for over a year. she changed her password twice. they had a recovery email she never set up and got back in every time.

found on:

→ www.l**k-vault cc
→ www ph***dump to
→ telegram → t me/le***vault_asia (14,000+ subscribers)

the last thing Claude Code pulled from her account was photos and videos of our daughter. that made me check her phone next.

she's 13. she had a photo editor app with 2.7 million downloads from the App Store. Claude Code found it uploading her camera roll to a server in Vietnam every 6 hours.

server → 103.56.***.12
location → Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
total uploaded → 11,400 files
access → camera, photos, location, microphone

her face, her school, her friends, her exact location every day for 8 months. Apple approved the app. it's still live right now.

what we did that night:

→ killed the iCloud session and removed the recovery email
→ changed every password from my phone, not from hers
→ deleted the app and revoked every unnecessary permission on both phones
→ filed DMCA takedowns on all 3 sites

2 of the 3 sites took the content down. the telegram channel is still up.

my wife cried. my daughter still thinks i deleted her app because it was using too much battery. i'm not going to tell her the real reason.

the full step by step is below. takes 3 minutes. run it on every phone in your house tonight. save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone with a family.

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@hthieblot

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@hthieblot Price of Persia - loved it so much - got the book on how it came about. Fascinating read.

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@gemsofbabus_ Because babus want their kids to study in America and retire there… they have an exit plan - most citizens don’t

[fabian @fabianstelzer]

German government folks celebrating their immunity to the cyber apocalypse as they’re still running on Fax

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@ApollyonDyn || विजयी भव: ||🏹

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@ePlaneCompany Future is now.! All the best and can’t wait to take one ePlane ride soon.

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@VishalBhargava5 10 years is a short time to give a verdict on public infrastructure. As the new line gets constructed, the network and connectivity will boost usage in next 10 years and wiping off any losses over last 10 years. “It was not ahead of time - it was planned well in time.”

[Ann Ebert @ebert_ann]

This is for all the writers ( and want to be writers) in this beautiful community 💖✍🏼👩‍💻👨🏻‍💻📝. This gave me some serious guffaws and I hope it does for you as well 👍🏼💙. Happy writing ✍🏼🙏🏼. @LouDPhillips @DzintraSullivan @ChrisBohjalian @therealSIR3 @hwinkler4real @AuthorFleur @donnacox1021 @drdoomed01 @jameshealyjr

[Parimal @Fintech03]

A US berry company taught China to grow blueberries, and China ate its market. Everyone is sharing that story this week. Here is the original version of that story and the teacher was us (We Indians). 🙏🙏

I really wonder why we do not make it a part of our curriculum...Anyway..Let us hear this story..

On Christmas Day in 1722, it became a crime to wear one fabric in Britain.

Printed cotton from India....

The cloth was chintz. Hand-painted and block-printed cotton from Masulipatnam, Ahmedabad, Sironj, Burhanpur.

Wash it, and the colours came out brighter than before. European dyers simply could not do this. Their reds ran. Their blues faded.

English wool and silk weavers panicked. In June 1719, mobs of weavers roamed London streets, tore calico gowns off women, threw ink and acid at others. "Down with the callicoes," they shouted.

Parliament listened....

1st, in 1700: every piece of printed or dyed calico from India had to be locked in a customs warehouse for re-export.

Sell it in England and pay a 200 pound fine. Then, on 23 March 1721, a harder law. From 25 December 1722, anyone caught wearing printed, painted, stained / dyed calico paid 5 pounds per offence.

A curtain / a cushion cover in the same cloth cost 20. The fine money went to whoever informed on you.

Now the interesting part...

While England banned the cloth, France sent men to learn how it was made.

Georges Roques, a French East India Company agent, reached Surat in 1676. He wrote a 333 page manual (1678) recording, step by step, how the printers of Ahmedabad worked.

3 wooden blocks: one for the outline, one for the ground, one for the details. A sesame oil bath for the cloth. And the full shopping list of an Indian dye-house: a root for the red, alum, iron rust, gall-nuts, pomegranate rind, turmeric, indigo, sour wheat flour, tree gum, wax.

His own opening line is honest: it can only be a good thing to know how these people apply colours that do not fade in the wash, but come out more beautiful than before.

Then Antoine de Beaulieu, a Company lieutenant at Pondicherry. Around 1734 he wrote a 2nd manual, and pinned an actual sample of cloth at every stage of the process. French printers used it as a recipe book.

Then a Jesuit, Pere Coeurdoux, also in Pondicherry. He watched the dyers, took lessons from 2 Indian craftsmen, and mailed the whole process home in letters (1742 and 1747) that were printed and passed around in France.

Step by step, Europe learnt the Indian method. Then it mechanized it.

What happened to the teacher?

India exported about 4.5M pieces of cotton cloth a year in the 1790s. By the 1830s, under half a million. Around 1830 India became a net importer of cloth. By 1880-81, by one estimate, ~58% of the cloth worn in India was made in Britain.

Roques' manual sat forgotten in a Paris archive until 1966.

Even today, almost everything we know of how our own dyers worked comes from what the Frenchmen wrote down. The dyers left no book of their own.

How much else did we know, and never write down?

P.S. The real secret was the mordant: a chemical fixer (alum, iron) applied to the cloth before dyeing, so the dye bites into the fibre and never washes out. The words still carry the address: chintz comes from the Hindi chheent (spotted), calico from Calicut.

Sources: Giorgio Riello, "Asian knowledge and the development of calico printing in Europe", Journal of Global History (2010); G.B. Souza, in "How India Clothed the World" (Brill, 2009); B. Gupta, "Cotton Textiles and the Great Divergence" (Univ. of Warwick); Old Bailey trial record, July 1719; London Gazette, April 1721.

Photo: Coromandel Coast palampore, painted resist and mordant, the exact technique in the post.

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@thealepalombo Never thought I’d see Jaipur there - but I don’t disagree.! Pink City is special and is going through massive cultural resurgence and re-interpretation of crafts, art and enterprise.

It rocks with Pacho, Polo, Panna and Palaces.

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@aravind China and Pakistan have large Bot Farms and thousands of devices working in synchronicity mimicking real users. They have really mastered disinformation and mass bot farms. You can hire them easily on dark web and many have ties back to Myanmar fraud rings.

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@rajeshsawhney Try Spingle from Hiroshima - excellent shoes - natural rubber sole and leather uppers.