Terms of Use

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Please read the terms and conditions carefully since they govern your use of this website. By accessing this site, and any of the pages therein, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions, as they may be modifed by TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA) from time to time.

If you do not agree to the terms and conditions below, please donot access this site or any of the pages therein.

Each user of this website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) agrees to the following terms and conditions.

USE OF WEBSITE CONTENT

The materials from this website are made for informational and non-commercial uses offline only, provided that: the content and/or graphics are not modified in any way; all copyright and other notices on any copy are retained; and permission is granted by TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA).

USER CONDUCT

This site (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) may contain areas (bulletin boards, mailing lists) where you may post and share comments with other site users on a variety of subjects. You agree that you will not post or otherwise disseminate on or through the site unlawful, harassing, libelous, tortious, abusive, offensive, threatening, or obscene communications or material of any kind, or materials which infringe or violate any third party's copyright, trade secret, privacy or other proprietary or property right, or that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable law or regulation; or, that are otherwise objectionable, including without limitation, content that evidences bigotry, racism, sexism, or hatred, or that promotes illegal activities or physical harm against anyone.

ACCESS TO AND FROM WEBSITE

Transmissions and communications to and from this website, even if done with the use of a secure channel through internet browser, may be read or intercepted by third parties. Each user of this website agrees that TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA) will not be held liable should such interception occur.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR CONNECTIVITY.

You agree that you are responsible for the means and mechanisms you use to access the site (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) and understand and agree that your hardware, software including communication software, the internet, your internet service provider (ISP), and any other third parties involved in connecting you to this site may not perform as intended or desired.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

This website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) may from time to time contain links to other websites. These links are provided as a convenience and do not constitute an endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation by TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA) of -- or responsibility for -- the linked Web sites or any content, services or products available on or through such sites.

LINKS FROM OTHER WEBSITES

To be an authorized link, a website consents to provide a link in which:

• the link is a text-only link containing only the title
  of the homepage of this site
• the link "points" only to the homepage of the site
  (http://www.twincling.org/) and not to deeper pages,
• the link, when activated by a user, displays the homepage
  of the site full screen and not within a "frame" on the
  linked website, and
• the appearance, position, and other aspects of the link
  doesnot create the false appearance that an entity or its
  activities or products are associated with or sponsored by
  TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA) or its associates.

THIRD PARTY CONTENT

This site (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) may from time to time contain material, data or information provided, posted or offered by third parties, including but not limited to advertisements or postings in online community discussions. You agree that neither TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA) nor its associates shall have any liability whatsoever to you for any such third party material, data or information.

INTERNET EMAIL.

If you send e-mail (encrypted or not) over the internet, you are accepting the associated risks of lack of confidentiality, and e-mail spoofing (From:, Sender: fields).

POSTING TO MAILING LISTS

TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA) maintains mailing lists for its members, associates on this website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) and also on third party service sites (YAHOOGROUPS.COM).

You agree to having all your subscriptions and postings governed, moderated and archived on the basis of the posting rules and configurations on these mailings lists. For the complete posting terms and conditions,
please visit http://www.twincling.org/node/217

SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS

TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA) provides software downloads both binary and source code on this website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) and also on third party service sites (TWINCLING.SOURCEFORGE.NET) and (WWW.LAUNCHPAD.NET).

You agree to accept the software license and your act of downloading the software from the site or a mirror
site constitutes complete acceptance of the terms and conditions contained therein.

TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS

TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA) and its associates may also claim trademark and service mark rights in the marks contained in this website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG). Copyrights in the pages and in the screens displaying the pages, and in the information and material therein and in their arrangement is owned by TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA) unless otherwise indicated.

All known trademarks are acknowledged at http://www.twincling.org/.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THIS SITE AND THE MATERIALS
CONTAINED THEREIN IS PROVIDED
ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. NONE OF TWINCLING
SOCIETY, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR ITS AFFILIATES OR
ITS RESPECTIVE OFFICERS (HEREIN AFTER COLLECTIVELY, THE
"TWINCLING SOCIETY PARTIES") GUARANTEES THE TIMELINESS,
ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY
OF THE SITE.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

NONE OF THE TWINCLING SOCIETY PARTIES WARRANT THAT THIS
SITE (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG), PLUGINS OR DOWNLOADS WILL MEET
YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS, OR BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR
ERROR FREE OR THAT THIS SITE, ITS FILE ARE FREE OF COMPUTER
VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL ELEMENTS.

YOU AGREE THAT THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY, ACCESS
AND PERFORMANCE OF THIS SITE (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) AND THE
USEFULNESS, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS IS ASSUMED SOLELY BY YOU.

YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD THIS SITE (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG),
TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA) AND ALL AFFILIATED PARTNERS
HARMLESS FROM ANY CLAIMS (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
CLAIMS FOR DEFAMATION, TRADE DISPARAGEMENT, PRIVACY AND
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT) AND ANY DAMAGES INCLUDING
ATTORNEY'S FEES ARISING FROM ANY SUBMISSIONS BY YOU OR THROUGH
YOUR ACCOUNT.

APPLICABLE LAW

These terms of use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Andhra Pradesh, and the central (federal) laws of India, without giving effect to its conflict of law provisions.

DISPUTE RESOLUTIONS

All disputes are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, State of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Posting Rules

The objective of stating the terms and condition, relevant extracts
from Indian IT Act 2000, posting rules and guidelines, is to
ensure that the mailing list member subscribers have as much flexibility
as possible, while at the sametime shielding them from
spammers, abusers and cyber criminals.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. The mailing lists and their archives are provided at
   this website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) and third party service
   providers Yahoo (GROUPS.YAHOO.COM)
   , Google (GROUPS.GOOGLE.COM).
2. Your subscription to the lists or accessing the archives
   implies you agree to follow these rules.
3. If you send e-mail (encrypted or not) over the internet,
   you are accepting the associated risks of lack of confidentiality,
   and e-mail spoofing.
4. In order to post to the mailing lists, you must first subscribe.
5. Assurance checks are run on each new joinee of the list.
6. All public mailing lists are moderated.
   Your post is reviewed and the contents therein verified
   within the context of the focus of the list.
7. By posting an article, you grant permission to make that
   article available in an archive with all other postings
   for later retrieval.
8. If you are using one of the lists and notice something
   inappropriate, please report it to 'twinclingcop'.
   Please donot try to deal the problem yourself.
   Only the list administrator has the authority to set
   policy on mailing lists.
9. Should the list administrator or moderator ask you to
   stop doing some activity on/with the list, please do so.
   Your non-cooperation in this matter may
   constitute grounds for your removal from the list.
10. You may use the archives only for research or study into
    topics previously discussed on the list.
    You may not collect e-mail addresses from those archives,
    or create any public archive of these messages, or
    publish them in any way on any media in any form,
    without explicit permission of the list administrators
    and TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA).
11. Should your computer become infected with a virus
    and attempts to send the virus to the mailing list,
    your posting privileges will be suspended.
    If you do it twice, you will be banned from that mailing list.

CYBER (COMPUTER) CRIME


The definition of computer crime is as follows:

• Any illegal action in which a computer is a tool or object
  of the crime; in other words, any crime, the means or
  purpose of which is to influence the function of computer;
• Any incident associated with computer technology in which a
  victim suffered or could have suffered loss and a perpetrator,
  by intention, made or could have made a gain;
• Computer abuse is considered as any illegal or unauthorized
  behaviour relating to the automatic processing and
  transmission of data.

Any attempt to do the following activities is illegal
and constitutes a Cyber Crime within the relevant
sections of the Indian IT Act 2000 and its amendments.

1. Attempts to hack this website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) or
   the list accounts at third party sites (GROUPS.YAHOO.COM)
   or circumvent the site and mailing list security.
2. abuse of the site, the administrators,
   or the users of this site.
3. posting chain letters or e-mail hoaxes.
4. using excessive profanity or abusive language while
   posting to the list.
5. causing sexual harassment by using language, sending URLs,
   or posting attachments that cause the same.
6. any attempt to collect e-mail addresses, or to use
   e-mail addresses or any user information on this site
   for any purpose not directly related to this site.
7. spamming
   (includes all advertising not directly related to
   the content of the list)
   the list or e-mail addresses of the users, administrators
   or moderators.
8. sending email to the lists or e-mail addresses of the users,
   administrators or moderators, with forged SMTP/ESMTP headers
   purporting to come from officers of TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA)
   or some other person.

In each of the above case, first time violations will be recorded.
Subsequently, the Society will take up the matter with Cyber police
and law enforcement authorities in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
and/or with Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States.

Please refer to the PENALTIES section of the
title="Information Technology Act,2000">
Indian IT Act 2000

for details.

POSTING RULES


Some of the rules are outlined here to help the members
reflect, apply judgement before sending an e-mail message.

• Think before you send
  
  
  There are real people out there on the list.
  Any message you send could be saved or forwarded by its
  recipient.
  You have no control over where it goes!
  





• Be Courteous
  
  
  To be courteus means, to be polite, kind or considerate in manner.
  Consider, Would you say it to the person's face ?
  If the answer is no, rewrite and reread.
  Please iterate through the process, till you feel sure
  that you'd feel as comfortable saying these words to the live
  person as you do sending them using email.
  





• Your words are written
  
  
  There are good chances that your mail is stored somewhere
  where you have no control over them.
  In other words, they can come back to haunt you.
  





• Your image is important
  
  
  The signature line that you use is as important as the
  words you choose in your email.
  People don't see you in person, but your persona
  (an aspect of the personality as shown to or perceived by
  others)
  is built up as your postings, replies accumulate on the list.
  





• People can see you
  
  
  Your approach to replying others in matters of assisting them
  solve a problem says a lot about you. Just because you are unseen,
  doesn't mean people can't see you! Your guards are lowered in
  cyberspace unlike person to person meets. Just by an analysis of
  2 - 3 of your posts/replies, people can figure you out.
  





• Emotional people forward a lot
  
  
  Do you feel like blood rushing to your hands to forward
  this fantastic article, point of view to everybody on the list ?
  Throw in the link and shoot the email ?
  Was it that the author had people like you as part of h(er)is
  viral marketing plan ?
  Think, what value do I generate by forwarding this link.
  





• Human attention span is short
  
  
  Can you ask your question precisely (exact in statement)
  and concisely (brief but comprehensive in expression) ?
  People scan pages online and search, but don't read all of it.
  





• Whats your opening line ?
  
  
  What you write in the subject line is the opening line.
  To get the attention of the members who can help you out,
  you need to have a good opening line.
  (e.g.
  PREFER: installation of RHL9 on x86/Mercury board fails,
  AVOID: help, help me in installing)
  





• Conclude before Starting off
  
  
  State the summary of the situation, idea, concept, problem
  in the beginning of the e-mail message. The next few
  paragraphs may contain the details of the experiments,
  logs etc. If the reader is interested (s)he will read
  the rest and not do it the first!
  





• Cut but don't Paste
  
  
  Review your message and identify the sentences, facts,
  ascii art etc. that you can do without, to stay on topic.
  





• First listen and then reply
  
  
  Listen to what the poster had to say, reread if its not clear.
  Hit the reply button and begin your reply after the message.
  This is also known as 'bottom posting'.
  





• conTEXT
  
  
  use the power of context
  (the parts of something written or spoken that immediately
  precede and follow a word or passage and clarify its meaning).
  to write selective replies to a posting.
  





• Flame
  
  
  When the flame burns out, it leaves black carbon on your image.
  





• Privacy
  
  
  Your privacy (freedom from intrusion or public attention)
  is very important and so is others'.
  Please keep your personal opinions to yourself.
  





• Quality matters
  
  
  You will be judged by the quality of your writing.
  





• Share your knowledge
  
  
  Share your knowledge and you will improve your understanding.
  Remember today's newbie is tomorrow's guru.
  





• Structure
  
  
  Structure your thoughts and then project them on the
  layout of your e-mail message to help others get the idea.
  Poorly structured messages imply the structure of our thoughts.
  





• reTAKE
  
  
  Everyone was a newbie once.
  So, if your posting is rejected because it
  was inappropriately formulated, missing subject line, flame-bait,
  off-topic etc., please re-write your mail correctly and re-send it.
  





• Think before you send
  
  
  There are real people out there on the list.
  Your mail goes to all the people and finally it comes back to you!
  Did you want this to happen ?
  

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DISAGREEMENT WITH TERMS AND CONDITIONS, RULES AND GUIDELINES.


If you disagree with any of the guidelines or rules,
you may contact 'info@twincling.org'.


Alternatively, you're free to simply not subscribe
to the mailing list.

CHANGES TO THIS DOCUMENT


TWINCLING SOCIETY reserves the right to change the
posting terms and conditions, rules and guidelines
from time to time, subject to review and amendments
commensurate with the prevailing law of the land.
The revised document will be posted on this
website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG)

This document was last updated on March 16, 2005.

Privacy Policy

At TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA)
we understand your privacy concerns and take them very seriously.
This document states the information management practices
relating to how your personal information is collected,
used or disclosed.

SCOPE OF THE POLICY


The privacy policy stated here is intended to describe
TWINCLING SOCIETY privacy practices and
make you aware about options you have about how your information
is collected, used or disclosed.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION


Personal information refers to any information about an
identifiable individual.
This includes information such as your name, address,
telephone number and email address.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT


When you provide TWINCLING SOCIETY with your
personal information, we inform you as to the reason
of collecting it. TWINCLING SOCIETY asks for your
permission to collect additional information that may
be useful in tailoring the services, website and
marketing plans.
For payment towards purchase of Linux distribution cd-roms
and subsequent verification,
the bank name, branch name, amount details
(Cash, Cheque, Pay Order) and your name, contact information
is collected.
This website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) does not collect any of your
personal bank account information or credit card information.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION


TWINCLING SOCIETY uses and discloses your personal information
only for its internal marketing and content tailoring purposes,
identified to you when your consent was obtained.
TWINCLING SOCIETY does not provide any of your personal information
to any third party under any circumstances, except wherein you
yourself have given it in writing to do so.

IPADDRESS INFORMATION


TWINCLING SOCIETY collects non-personal information such as
domain name, Uniform Resource Locator (URL), Internet Protocol (IP)
address of all visitors to its website.
Information is also collected on those who post messages to
the mailing lists, news groups, bulletin board and those who
communicate with TWINCLING SOCIETY via e-mail,
as well as those who provide their personal information through
surveys, site registrations,

COOKIES AND BROWSER INFORMATION


TWINCLING SOCIETY may use cookies to store visitors' preferences,
record user session information, record user-specific information
on what pages users access or visit, alert visitors to new
areas on the site, that the Society thinks would be of interest
to them, when they return to this website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG),
and to record past activity in order to tailor or customize
website content based on visitors' browser type (User-Agent field)
or other information that the user provides the website with.

E-MAIL


If you have signed up with your e-mail address for periodic
updates or newsletters or mailing lists, you may receive
e-mails from TWINCLING SOCIETY with information on new products,
services or upcoming events.



TWINCLING SOCIETY will not rent, sell or share your e-mail
information with any third party under any circumstance.



If you send e-mail (encrypted or not) over the internet,
you are accepting the associated risks of lack of confidentiality,
and e-mail spoofing (From:, Sender: fields).



It is possible that someone may spoof e-mail address, purporting
to be from the domain (TWINCLING.ORG) and send information that
may not relevant to your interests, defamatory or libel in nature.
This could happen, given the nature of mail relay servers on the
internet.



If you have recieved any e-mail with spoofed e-mail address or
objectionable contents, please get in touch with TWINCLING SOCIETY
as soon as possible, with the objectionable material. The Society
will take up the matter with Cyber police and law enforcement
authorities in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
and with Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States.

POSTAL MAIL


If you have provided us with your postal address, you may
receive periodic updates or newsletters from TWINCLING SOCIETY
with information on new products, services or invitation passes
for upcoming events.

PHONE


Persons supplying us with their telephone number online
may receive telephone contact from TWINCLING SOCIETY officers,
representatives or employees, regarding new products,
services or upcoming events.
Your telephone number may be used in the event of providing you
technical support or credentials verification.

ONLINE AD SERVERS


TWINCLING SOCIETY does not partner with, or have any relationship
with, any advertisement server companies.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES


This website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG) may from time to time contain
links to other websites. These links are provided as a
convenience and do not constitute an endorsement, sponsorship
or recommendation by TWINCLING SOCIETY (INDIA) of -- or
responsibility for -- the linked Web sites or any content,
services or products available on or through such sites.
Should you have any questions about the data collection
approaches or privacy policy of linked sites, please
contact those organizations directly.

HOW WE HANDLE DATA SECURITY


TWINCLING SOCIETY adopts security assurance practices which
are practiced across the organization. The Executive Team
is aware of the practices and trains its employees and agents
in handling customer data with utmost care.



The web application developers are trained in safe data
handling practices, workflow design audits and source code
vulnerability assessments.



The system administration and monitoring team proactively
conducts log analysis, e-mail headers
(X-Sender, X-x-sender, X-Originating-IP) investigation,
e-mail spoofing attempts,
spurious email address and data,
password strength checks and monitor
system usage and access patterns.



Should a compromise occur, IS Audit and Forensics team
can quickly estimate the nature and degree of compromise
and take the necessary remedial steps.

HOW TO CONTACT TWINCLING SOCIETY


Should you have any queries about any of the practices or
TWINCLING SOCIETY's use of your personal information,
please feel free to contact us by postal mail at:




TWINCLING SOCIETY

Legal Affairs, Licensing and Cyberlaws Committee

8-3-677/43, S.K.D. Nagar

Yellareddy Guda

Hyderabad 500073

Andhra Pradesh

INDIA.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY


TWINCLING SOCIETY reserves the right to change the
privacy policy from time to time, subject to review and
amendments commensurate with the prevailing law of the land.
The revised privacy policy will be posted on this
website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG)

This privacy policy was last updated on March 1, 2005.

Information Technology Act 2000

1. SHORT TITLE
   
   
   This Act may be called the Information Technology Act, 2000.
   
2. EXTENT
   
   
   It shall extend to the whole of India and,
   save as otherwise provided in this Act, it
   applies also to any offence or contravention
   thereunder committed outside India by any person.
   
3. DEFINITIONS
   
   
   

1. "access"
   
   
   with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions
   means gaining entry into, instructing or communicating
   with the logical, arithmetical, or memory function
   resources of a computer, computer system or computer
   network;
   
2. "addressee"
   
   
   means a person who is intended by the originator to
   receive the electronic record but does not include
   any intermediary;
   
3. "computer"
   
   
   means any electronic, magnetic, optical or other
   high speed data processing device or system which
   performs logical, arithmetic, and memory functions
   by manipulation of electronic, magnetic or optical
   impulses, and includes all input, output, processing,
   storage, compuer software, or communication facilities
   which are connected or related to the computer in a
   computer system or computer network;
   
4. "computer network"
   
   
   means the interconnection of one ore more computers
   through -
   • the use of satellite, microwave, terrestrial line or
     other communication media; and
   • terminals or a complex consisting of two or more
     interconnected computers whether or not the interconnection
     is continuously maintained;
   
   
5. "computer resource"
   
   
   means computer, computer system, computer network, data,
   computer database or software;
   
6. "computer system"
   
   
   means a device or collection of devices, including
   input and output support devices and excluding calculators
   which are not programmable and capable of being used
   in conjunction with external files, which contain
   computer programmes, electronic instructions,
   input data, and output data, that performs logic, arithmetic,
   data storage and retrieval, communication control and
   other functions;
   
7. "data"
   
   
   means a representation of information, knowledge, facts,
   concepts or instructions which are being prepared or
   have been prepared in a formalized manner, and is
   intended to be processed, is being processed or
   has been processed in a computer system or
   computer network, and may be any form (including computer
   printouts magnetic or optical storage media, punched cards,
   punched tapes) or stored internally in the memory of the
   computer;
   
8. "electronic form"
   
   
   with reference to information means any information generated,
   sent, received or stored in media, magnetic, optical,
   computer memory, microfilm, computer generated microfiche
   or similar device;
   
9. "electronic record"
   
   
   means data, record or data generated, image or sound stored,
   received or sent in an electronic form or micro film or
   computer generated micro fiche;
   
10. "function"
    
    
    in relation to a computer, includes logic, control,
    arithmetical process, deletion, storage and retrieval
    and communication or telecommunication from or within
    a computer;
    
11. "information"
    
    
    includes data, text, images, sound, voice, codes,
    computer programmes, software and databases or
    micro film or computer generated micro fiche;
    
12. "intermediary"
    
    
    with respect to any particular electronic message means
    any person who on behalf of another person receives,
    stores or transmits that message or provides any service
    with respect to that message;
    
13. "originator"
    
    
    means a person who sends, generates, stores or transmits
    any electronic message or causes any electronic message
    to be sent, generated, stored or transmitted to any other
    person but does not include an intermediary;
    

PENALTIES


The extracts of the relevant sections
are provided as service to the user of this
website (WWW.TWINCLING.ORG).

• Sec 43.
  Damage to computer, computer system etc.
  
  
  If any person without permission of the owner or
  any other person who is incharge of a computer,
  computer system or computer network -
  1. accesses or secures access to such computer,
     computer system or computer network;
  2. downloads, copies or extracts any data,
     computer data base or information from such
     computer, computer system or computer network
     including information or data held or stored
     in any removable storage medium;
  3. introduces or causes to be introduced any
     computer contaminant or computer virus into any
     computer, computer system or computer network;
  4. damages or causes to be damaged any computer,
     computer system or computer network, data,
     computer database or any other programmes
     residing in such computer, computer system or
     computer network;
  5. disrupts or causes disruption of any computer,
     computer system or computer network;
  6. denies or causes the denial of access to any
     person authorized to access any computer, computer
     system or computer network by any means;
  7. provides any assistance to any person to facilitate access
     to a computer, computer system or computer network in
     contravention of the provisions of this Act, rules or
     regulations made thereunder;
  8. charges the services availed of by a person to the account
     of another person by tampering with or manipulating any
     computer, computer system, or computer network.

  he shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation
  not exceeding one crore rupees to the person so affected.
  
  
  Explanation. -
  For the purposes of this section, -
  

  1. "computer contaminant" means any set of computer instructions
     that are designed -
     • to modify, destroy, record, transmit data or programme residing
       within a computer, computer system or computer network; or
     • by any means to usurp the normal operations of the computer,
       computer system, or computer network;
  2. "computer database" means a representation of information,
     knowledge, facts, concepts or instructions in text,
     image, audio, video that are being prepared or have been
     prepared in a formalized manner or have been produced by
     a computer, computer system or computer network and are
     intended for use in a computer, computer system or
     computer network;
  3. "computer virus" means any computer instruction, information,
     data or programme that destroys, damages, degrades or adversely
     affects the performance of a computer resource or attaches
     itself to another computer resource and operates when a prgramme,
     data or instruction is executed or some other event takes place
     in that computer resource;
  4. "damage" means to destroy, alter, delete, add, modify or rearrange
     any computer resource by any means.
  
  





• Sec 65.
  Tampering with computer source documents
  
  
  Whoever knowingly or intentionally conceals, destroys or alters
  or intentionally or knowingly causes another to conceal, destroy
  or alter any computer source code used for computer, computer
  programme, computer system or computer network, when the
  computer source code is required to be kept or maintained by
  law for the time being in force, shall be punishable with
  imprisonment up to three years, or with fine which may extend
  up to two lakh rupees, or with both.
  
  
  Explanation -
  For the purposes of this section, "computer source code"
  means the listing of programmes, computer commands, design
  and layout and programme analysis of computer resource in
  any form.
  
  





• Sec 66.
  Hacking the Computer System
  
  
  1. Whoever with the intent to cause or knowing that he is likely
     to cause wrongful loss or damage to the public or any
     person destroys or deletes or alters any information
     residing in a computer resource or diminishes its value
     or utility or affects it injuriously by any means, commits hacking.
  2. Whoever commits hacking shall be punished with imprisonment upto
     three years, or with fine which may extend upto two lakh
     rupees, or with both.
  
  





• Sec 67.
  Publishing of information which is obscene in electronic form
  
  
  Whoever publishes or transmits or causes to be published in the
  electronic form, any material which is lasvicious or appeals
  to the prurient interests or if its effect is such as to tend to
  deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to
  all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter
  contained or embodied in it, shall be punished on first conviction
  with imprisonment of either description for a term which may
  extend to five years and with fine which may extend to one lakh
  rupees and in the event of a second or subsequent conviction
  with imprisonment of either description for a term which may
  extend to ten years and also with fine which may extend to two
  lakh rupees.
  

ANNEXURE

• Sec. 88A. Presumption as to electronic message
  
  
  The Court may presume that an electronic message forwarded
  by the originator through an electronic mail server to
  the addressee to whom the message purports to be addressed
  corresponds with the message as fed into his computer for
  transmission;
  but the court shall not make any presumption as to the
  person by whom such message was sent.
  

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