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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the Indian state-owned telecommunications company is neither known for it's quality of service nor for customer satisfaction. To make their services more user-friendly they started allowing quick online recharge facility from their website, but this service has a data privacy loophole where anybody can check any BSNL subscribers prepaid balance with expiry date. While this may not sound a big security risk the data exposed can be used to device social-engineering phishing attacks, for example - a malicious hacker can fetch this data and utilize it for calling the subscriber as an BSNL employee supplying this information to gain trust of the consumer and asking them to order a highly subsidized online recharge from a fake website.

We all are now very well aware of the fact that almost all big government's use cyber-warfare to spy on each other and individuals of interest, NSA, USA's cyber-weapon Flame, suspected Chinese spying using Electric Kettles and other communication devices are prime public examples of this.

The latest revelations made by "The Washington Post's" story "FBI’s search for ‘Mo,’ suspect in bomb threats, highlights use of malware for surveillance" provides further glimpses onto how intrusive these tactics can get. The FBI's ability to covertly activate a users computer camera without triggering the notification light which informs the user that it is being recorded is one such example, While used for good purpose of catching criminals and controlling terrorism now what happens when the technology gets leaked or gets abused by whom which have access to it now to settle personal scores or invade one's privacy?

If you already have an email address and do not want to get a new Gmail account, Google does provide an alternative signup web-form to get your free Google account utilizing your existing email id. One simply needs to use https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail and complete the signup process skipping the need of an Gmail account. The same can also be accessed using the "I prefer to use my current email address" option located just below the text-filed where it asks for Gmail ID in default Google signup form.

Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency being anonymous and untraceable has been the preferred choice for doing illegal business online. After, being widely used for all kinds on illegal online trading like drugs, exploits and numerous other black-market services the currency has another taker which will definitely raise many eyebrows and can result in strict governmental actions. A new online service hosted on underground, anonymous Tor network is now being used to offer an crowdfunded bounty killer service. Named "The Assassination Market" the service lets anyone anonymously contribute bitcoins towards a bounty on the head of any government official just like Kickstarter but for political assassinations.

The Kickstarter for political murders is already receiving huge funds and have 7 nominations (nominating someone needs someone to propose a name and pay the 1 Bitcoin fee worth US$766.99) so far. "Ben Shalom Bernanke" the current chairman of Federal Reserve USA tops the chart and has collected maximum bounty worth ฿124.14 or US$95106.76 at today's exchange rate.