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Vikneshwaren
Free Software Hardware Movement, Puducherry
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From: Vignesh Prabhu <lists@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:12 AM
Subject: [Fsmk-discuss] Israeli Firm Strong-Arms Indian Techie for Exposing
Suspicious Code
To: Discussions related to Free Software and the Movement <
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http://thewire.in/2015/06/09/israeli-firm-strong-arms-indian-techie-for-exposing-suspicious-code/
In an intriguing case of abuse, a Bengaluru-based programmer was on
Monday threatened with a criminal lawsuit for attempting to expose an
avaricious program that violated net neutrality.
On June 3, Thejesh GN, an activist and programmer, published screenshots
and some text explaining how the Airtel 3G network was inserting some
extra lines of code into his browser every time he visited a webpage.
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On June 8, however, he received a cease-and-desist order issued by Flash
Networks, Ltd., a company based out of Herzliya, Israel, via their
attorneys in Mumbai. The order required that Thejesh remove the
description and implications of Anchor.js he had uploaded to GitHub
because they violated Flash Networks’ copyright over it. His ‘act’ was
alleged to be a criminal offence under the IPC 1860 and Information and
Technology Act, 2000.
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