California Dreams
Posted on Jul 11th, 2006 in Book Reviews
Rainbow of dreams realised Roopinder Singh California Dreams: India Shining in the Land of Hollywood by Gurmukh Singh. British Columbia Books, BC, Canada. Pages 208. Rs 999. THE four Sikhs who landed in San Francisco on April 5, 1899, were the precursors of a wave that reached near its crest a century later. Indians were considered white, but suffered the …
IT’s Achilles’ heel, security
Posted on Jul 5th, 2006 in Information Tech
Cyber insecurity Human vulnerabilities are exploited for IT crimes by Roopinder Singh Security, or rather the lack of it in the cyber world, has come into focus again. National secrets have been leaking out at an appalling rate and supposedly secure computers have become more of cyber sieves than repositories of data. There has been a major leak of electronic …

