Using songs to hack computers

Whether this report accurately reflects the process hackers use to destabilize computers or not nevertheless achieves the objective of discrediting a business - albeit, one without legality.

www.songs.pk is a famous website music lovers use to download songs - for free. Naturally it was bound to gain popularity since most of the desi land would prefer to acquire the intangibles without having to pay for them.

The accusation made, as per Press Trust of India, by Indian intelligence agencies, is that Pakistani hackers have embedded codes within the songs which when downloaded can provide access to anyone's computer when desired. 1.2 million computers around the world could be at the mercy of a few hackers.

However, songs.pk have issued a notification rejecting such allegations meant to hurt its business of freely providing a service without having to pay.

War hysteria and Pak-Indo tensions are spilling over into the music scene. Already there have been calls within Pakistan to ban the extremely popular Indian films that were regularly shown to sold out crowds which had been helping the cinemas breathe again.

Zia Mohyuddin's Faiz missing

Caption: The missing CD

I checked half a dozen shops including all the ones in Fortress, Wapda Town and Johar Town but had no luck in finding Zia Moheyuddin's recitation of Faiz's poetry. The CD's were available, but once you ask the shopkeepers to test play them, it ends up being someone else's recitation. All SHAHZAD Audio stores had this problem. Since some of these folks haven't heard of Faiz's poetry, to them Zia Moheyuddin is probably reciting Faiz in that exquisite style of his.

The futile search taught me an important lesson: Even pirates can fuck up.

However, I found a poor audio quality CD from one of the stores in Liberty. Will have to make do with this and extract the small rendition of a poem for the current documentary am working on.