IT Act 2000: Any Comments

I thank the cyber media, the organisers of the e-crime Seminar(23 March) that gave an opportunity to listen to a distinquished panel and the interesting off-line discussion we had on the IT Act 2000.

Here is some shocking revelation that shakes the very ground on which the whole edifice (large part of it at least) of IT Act 2000 stands. Here is the blog for you to reflect on.

The lawyers who were involved in drafting the IT Act 2000 must have taken the words of the technocracy for truth as "bible"; the actual facts must come as a shock for many.
The truth must be told lest the country should be misguided into believing the "lies" and innocent citizen is made the scapegoat.

How come a country like USA can do its business with out the services of a statutory body, "Controller of Certifying Authority" is a topic for discussion for a future post.( Mind you, the CCA provision was passed under the very nose of a Minister like Dr Arun Shourie, who spent large part of his energy in implementing the philosophy that: "The Government should keep out of business and must govern".)

So is the fact that inspite of the "Controller of Certifying Authority" and the CA certifying the digital signature, the total risks involved and the financial injury sufferred by the citizen in
accepting the digital signature is entirely with the person accepting the digital signature and NOT with the CA or CCA even if it was proved that it was due the mistake of the CA or CCA. This is also for a future post on the blog.

Please reflect on the matter and put in your comments on the blog itself for the world to see.