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IPL, data leaks, and a reliable Operating System: A Technical Note!



Now, that IPL spectacle is into a new and blood curdling phase, it is time to talk of many things - of cabbages and kings; of data flows and operating systems!
Mind you, the valuations and profit projections of IPL were from the most reliable of sources. 
Hope you heard it right - the leaked email was, indeed, a great revelation! No team owner stands to earn one Paisa (not a Cent, not a single Penny) of profit for the next several years! Isn't that great!
This proved to be such an exciting info to Minister-X that his email inbox imploded (virtually)! 
It further strengthened his resolve to bat for his team! 
After getting to know that there is no way of earning profits for a very long time to come, the Kochi bid went up by several million dollars! What a brave new world of business we are into now! Forget the sub-prime crisis, global recession and bubbles. You haven't even imagined how big the bubbles could get!


Yes, must get back to the note.


One leaked file is worth two million official disclosures! Got it? Don't be stupid. Learn to be smart, my dear!
If someone gets data across the desk, especially the front desk, you got to take it with tons of salt. But not so, if it is well and truly leaked!
And, if the leak is from one Minister's PC to another Minister's laptop, Blackberry or iPhone, then it must be pure Gold, Platinum and Diamonds - all fused together to form the Golden Fleece!
Now that we are wiser, forget the RTI, a good leak is what matters! And more so, when it is digitally leaked! You bet! We can even digitally authenticate!
Daughter 2 Daddy/Minister-A; Minister-A 2 Minister-X; Minister-X 2 ??@dpbq, and on it goes hoping across PCs, laptops, netbooks, blackberrys, proxy-servers, VPNs, WANs, …. sweating and tweeting all the way home, collecting some sweat equity on its return. How sweet!
Well you know, where it went, all the way over the internet! So don't expect me to squeal!


Now, the big News! That is why this note.


This most critical information was found in emails transmitted through our very own smart e-governance platforms! What an efficient e-governance we have! State of the Art and the very Top of the Shelf Tech! Proven reliable over hundreds of generations!
The worksheets laden with the heaviest of all data! The Union Budget? You must be kidding! 
And, mind you, all this data moved through the special digital links connecting servers running our most reliable operating system. What is that?
MS-WOS? MacroSoft Windmill OS? Yuk! That is just toilet paper!
Our smart networks, servers, PCs, laptops, ministries, departments, companies, what have you  - they all run on MCK-OS - the most stable, robust, scalable, reliable, versatile and ubiquitous Micro Close Kinship Operating System!
We run ultra smart e-governance networks on the MCK-OS.
Easy to install! Easier to run! Unlike any other!
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