Wired news makes a very good point this week in their analysis of the state of the art in India.

On the one hand, India has become everybody’s favourite place to outsource their tech support, and, issues of U.S. job drain aside, with good reason. Indian culture puts a high premium on academic achievment and intellectual pursuits, and thus has a very high density of smart, bright, on-the-ball young tech professionals. Who can, of course be had for a comparative song, which brings us back to the issue of U.S. job drain, which we are leaving aside.

On the other hand, however, where the technical prowess of this generation can be said to be almost prosaic, their law enforcement system’s grasp of computer technology in general, and the Internet in particular, is nothing short of a comedy of errors.

You may recall that at the end of last year Aunty reported that the CEO of an Indian auction portal had been arrested because a user had put pornographic material up for auction on the site. Not the user who listed the illicit material. The CEO of the site, who by no account had anything whatsoever to do with the material, the listing, or the user who listed it.

Well, dear readers, that was just the tip of the iceberg.

How about police who go on raids to confiscate computers, and seize the monitors, but leave the CPUs and drives…

[Continue reading A Tale of Two Indias: Sophisticated Outsourcing; Keystone Cybercops]