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i am sure you know what is a crackpot; but do you know what is crakblok?
well, crakblok is a facility provided by an indian isp as a security measure to their dial up net work customers. if you activate this facility your internet account will be tied up with the particular telephone number of your choice. suppose i steal your username and password for tata indicoms dial up connection and try to access the net from my telephone or for that matter any other telephone other than the one you have choosen on the crakblok i will not be allowed to log on to the net.
well; i do have a dial up net work account with tata indicom's vsnl.net. it is not free; i pay them eight rupees for every hour i spend on the net over and above the telephone charges. and i will tell you what happens when i try to use the crakblok facility. we will start, not with presenting compalints but, with past history and it is indeed a more logical way of approaching a problem - that is if it is not a dire emergency!
i stay in a rented house and have to shift house frequently. every time i shift house i have to shift my telephone connection as well and it invariably has a new number at the new place.
when i shifted house in 2006 also i had a telephone with a new number at the new house. before i moved out i forgot to deactivate the crakblok of my internet account. that means that the crakblok will prevent me from accessing the net from my present telephone. all the same i tried just for the heck of it. surprise! i got logged in! how come?
i telephoned the help number of the isp. the gentleman said that the crack block was in place and accepted that there is a snag some where and assured me that they will take up the matter with the telephone company. - that was the last i heard of the incident. in short, my faith in the isp was rather misplaced.
it was by sheer accident that i came to know that the crakblok in my case was for name sake only. there was no way i could have checked it up for i have no human contact over here; and checking up invaribly means using some one else's computer and telephone to try it out.
if i complain to the isp they will pass the blame on to the telephone company and the telephone company will give the information to g. sujathan as evidence of my insanity. so, better keep mum!
the present is not history as yet. after the above incident i was not using the crakblok; what is the point? and in this house also i was not using it. but just like all mad men do, a couple of days back i also heard a voice (auditory hallucination ?) telling me - activate the crakblok!
i obeyed the command; at least i tried to and tried activating the crakblok. well i was not able to. when i try to open the page i could not find the page where the facility is there to enter the telephone number and without a telephone number how can you activate the service ? my conclusion was that the gestapo is not interested in my using the crakblok.
may be i needed help and help came in the form of another voice from the helpline of the isp. the voice tried from the other side and activated the crakblok on my behalf
good, eh? No; bad. from that moment onwards i could not access the net any more though i was dialing from the telephone which was entered by the help desk in the crakblok. how come?
if you ask me, i would say that it is because my telephone is being tampered with and when i use my dial up connection and it reaches the server the telephone number is different from or at least the criteria set by the server to accept it as coming from 2357704 are not satisfied. and i am not allowed to log in. i have told you time and again about the gestapo's proxy server and the net nanny and all.
after a couple of days of not being able to use that net connection, the voice came back to me again. and the voice this time on told me to deactivate the crakblok and try again to connect to the net.
as usual i obeyed the voice. i accessed the net through my bb ( pronounced beeevi) and tried deactivating the crakblok - NO problem. it got deactivated damn fast inspite of my intellectual impairment.
i logged out from bb and tried connecting from the dial up net work with the crakblok deactivated. NO problem at all ! i could log on to the net and that too from the same dial up networking connection through the very same telephone line that was not allowing me to log on till the previous moment.
how come - aisa kyom? i would say that this is almost definite proof that the telephone line is being tampered with. with the crakbok on the indian gestapo cannot make me go through his proxy server and have complete control over my net connection.
oh, dont bother yaaar; it is all the gibberings of a raving lunatic! oh, yes;
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