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Android Security related tools
A lot of work is happening in academia and industry on tools to perform dynamic analysis, static analysis and reverse engineering of android apps. Following is a collection of few tools that I am aware of.
Book Summary: The Start-Up of You
The book tries to reflect on individual’s professional growth in contemporary era of fickle employment guarantees. The best part about the book is that it tries to offer pragmatic (as opposed to principled advice) regarding career development and branding. Following … Continue reading
Vivek Wadhwa: “The next Trillion Dollar Opportunities”
(Opinions expressed here are my understanding of Vivek Wadhwa’s opinion) “The next Trillion Dollar Opportunities” (in this decade) China’s manufacturing and India’s call center business is saturated. PC industry is dead, Laptop is flat and mobile is going up. Next … Continue reading
Beyond Numbers: Dealing with terrorism in India
Lets start with a small exercise. Trying searching for List of Sept 2011 victims or for List of London Bombing victims. In each case, more than half of results on first page lead to a list of names along with the … Continue reading
Random Thoughts: Rape and The Indian Blame Game
After Delhi gang rape case, there has been a sudden upsurge in traditional as well as social media over rape in India. As usual in such cases, the initial reaction is to find someone to blame. And in this case … Continue reading
Book Summary: Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma
The book provides a nice summary of economic events of recent past (~50 years) and builds upon the case for coming 10 years. The book is divided in 14 different chapters covering emerging and frontier (less liquid and smaller than emerging).
Book Review: The Tangled web
Just completed reading “The Tangled web: A guide to securing modern applications” by Michael Zalewski. The book is surprisingly small given the amount of information it covers about interaction of web browsers, web sites and client-side web technologies. The book … Continue reading
Book Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson
The book is 50% story of Jobs and 50% history of the Valley. From the beginning of Apple to it becoming the world’s most valuable company, book covers everything in depth (and is a bit too long) Some of the … Continue reading
Book Summary: In the Plex by Steven Levy
An amazing book which describes Google’s journey right from its beginning in the Stanford dorm. The author interviewed several top echelons of Google and presented several interesting insider anecdotes and stories of Google. The book provides details of major projects … Continue reading
Female Foeticide
The first episode of Aamir Khan’s show Satyamev jayate raised issue of female foeticide in Rajasthan. While the show asked for stringent laws, it missed a few major reasons behind the same.