The warning was issued by the panel of experts at Clubhack 2007, India’s first International convention of hackers, which held today at the ICC Trade Tower located along the Senapati Bapat Road.
The convention included a panel discussion where legal experts, lawyers and hackers came together for answering the questions about computer security.
The panel included Deputy Commissioner of Police Sanjay Jadhav of State Intelligence Department (SID), legal expert Rohas Nagpal, president of Asian School of Cyber Laws, hacker Rohit Srivastwa, who was also the convener of the event and Bikash Barai, CEO of iViZ technology, Kolkatta.
Answering a question about circulation of obscene SMSes and emails, the panel made it clear that the owner of a mobilephone or computer from which the obscene material was sent was liable for punishment.
The panel stated that sending an obscene SMS is a crime. Suppose if someone sends an obscene SMS from your mobile phone without letting you know about it, then as per the law you would be responsible for the crime, which is punishable upto five years of imprisonment. The intention of sending the obscene stuff is not considered in these cases. So be very careful before giving your mobile phone to anybody, the panel warned.
Besides, a variety of questions related to hacking, cyber pornography, the Information Technology (IT) Act, Google.com and other related topics were by the audience, which mostly included the IT professionals.
The convention also observed presentations from 13 speakers, including hackers and security experts Dror Shalev from Israel and David Hulton from USA. Shalev gave an interesting demo of a toaster hacking a computer, while Hulton talked in depth about the methods for breaking crypto faster using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Among others, Rohas Nagpal gave conducted an interactive session on seven years of Indian IT Act, while security researcher Sunil Arora described how a firefox can be hacked to steal web secrets.