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UPSC 2019 GS-III · 10 marks · 150 words

What is the CyberDome Project? Explain how it can be useful in controlling internet crimes in India.

What “Explain” demands

set out how or why something works, with the mechanism made explicit.

The characteristic failure: stating that it works without showing how.

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  • CyberDome: Kerala Police technological research and development centre, launched 2017, a public-private-academia collaboration
  • Functions: cyber-threat intelligence, honeypots, dark-web monitoring, child-pornography detection (Operation P-Hunt), ethical-hacker volunteer network
  • Why it works: brings outside technical talent into policing without absorbing it into the hierarchy
  • National context: I4C and CFCFRMS reporting portal, CERT-In, state cyber cells — position CyberDome as the replicable state model
  • Limits: jurisdiction, capacity outside Kerala, MLAT delays on cross-border evidence

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