Worlds Best Cities to Travel

World's Best Cities to Travel In 2013

Bangalore: There are many attractions in the world which travelers love to take a glimpse of. Some travelers even prefer to do research on places before they explore. Lonely Planet has come out with a list of the hottest cities to travel in 2013. "Best in Travel is all about identifying destinations which offer the traveler something special," said Tom Hall of Lonely Planet, reports Mirror News.

Check the list below.

1) San Francisco

Best to enjoy- Culture, events, food

San Francisco is one of the sought after city in California. This place is famous for summer fog, Victorian architecture, scenic beauty, cultural diversity and hilly terrain among others. The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the famous attractions in San Francisco. Other major attractions are Cable cars, Alcatraz which is a notorious former prison, Chinatown, Fisherman's Wharf-a festive waterfront marketplace, San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art, de Young Museum, the Palace of the Legion of Honor are famous for classical and contemporary arts.

 2) Amsterdam

Best to enjoy-Events, food and culture

The largest city and the capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam has emerged as one of the best city to visit in 2013. Amsterdam has many celebrations in store for the coming year. The range of celebrations include famed canal ring which is turning to 400 years old, Vincent van Gogh's 160th birthday, the re-opening celebration of Rijksmuseum after a decade long renovation, world's best Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will blow out 125 candles, Artis Royal Zoo turn to 175 years and so on.

3) Hyderabad

Best to enjoy: Food, culture and historical landmarks

One of the oldest cities in India, Hyderabad is also in the list of best cities to visit in 2013. Hyderabad is known for its unique culture. It is the ex-capital of the largest and wealthiest princely state. Hyderabad has recognized the local traditions in literature, art, architecture and delicious cuisines, with the help of Nizams. The city is one of the preferable tourist destination and offers many attractions like Charminar, Chowmahalla Palace and Golkonda Fort are among others. Apart from these, the city houses many museums, galleries, bazaars and cultural institutions.

4) Londonderry

Best to enjoy: Events and culture

"Londonderry is the UK City of Culture 2013, which means this vibrant historic walled city is undergoing a renaissance," according to the Guide, reports Mirror News. The year 2013 will witness a range of cultural events including world's biggest Irish Festival- All Ireland Fleadh. From pageants to contemporary dance to music, Londonderry sees lot of cultural events throughout the year followed by Jazz Festival and Earhart Festival

5) Beijing

Best to enjoy: Cuisine and culture

Beijing in China is considered as the artistic and cultural centre. As per the National Geographic, "the city remains an epicenter of tradition with the treasures of nearly 2,000 years as the imperial capital still on view-in the famed Forbidden City and in the city's lush pavilions and gardens..."

This city has lot of attractions to offer. Beijing is famous for its luxurious palaces, temples, huge stone walls and gates. It has preserved several pagodas and stone pagodas like Pagoda of Tianning Temple that was established during the Liao Dynasty and the Pagoda of Cishou Temple was built during the Ming Dynasty way back in 1576.

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Encryption Is Not the Answer to Security Problems

I just read Cyber Fail: Why can't the government keep hackers out? Because the public is afraid of letting it, an article in the new Foreign Policy National Security channel. I've Tweeted on Mr Arquilla's articles before, but this new one published today offers a solution to security problems that just won't work.Consider these excerpts:

Back in President Bill Clinton's first term, the "clipper chip" concept was all about improving the security of private communications. Americans were to enjoy the routine ability to send strongly encoded messages to each other that criminals and snoops would not be able to hack, making cyberspace a lot safer.

I see two errors in this section. First, having lived through that time, and having read Steven Levy's excellent book Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, I disagree with Mr Arquilla's statement. The Clipper Chip was the government's last attempt to keep tight control of encryption, not "improve the security of private communications."

Second, Mr Arquilla implies that encryption = "making cyberspace a lot safer." That fallacy appears later in the article.

Sadly, industry leaders have never emphasized the value of strong crypto sufficiently either. There are many reasons for this neglect -- the most likely being that encouraging ubiquitous use of strong crypto could weaken sales of the firewalls and anti-viral products that form so much of the cybersecurity business model.

Here is my key issue with this article. An enterprise could encrypt every single piece of information at rest or in transit, andintruders would still win.

The fundamental reality of cryptography in the enterprise is that users and applications must be able to access data in unencrypted form in order to use it.

In other words, if a user can access data, so can an intruder.

Cryptography certainly frustrates some bad guys, such as amateurs who eavesdrop on encrypted communications, or thieves who swipe mobile devices, or intruders who remove encrypted files without bothering to obtain the material necessary to decrypt it.

However, cryptography will not stop your Web app from suffering SQL injection, nor will it keep Java from being exploited by a client-side attack.

The article concludes in part by saying:

But ways ahead do exist. There is a regulatory role: to mandate better security from the chip-level out -- something that Sen. Joseph Lieberman's Cybersecurity Act would only have made voluntary.

This sounds like an advertisement for a chip maker. I've heard their lobbyists use the same terms on Capitol Hill. "Mandating security" at the "chip level" would be as effective as FISMA -- a waste of time.

Mr Arquilla does make a few points I agree with, such as:

[W]e should treat cybersecurity as a foreign-policy issue, not just a domestic one. For if countries, and even some networks, can find a way to agree to norms that discourage cyberwar-making against civilian infrastructure -- much as the many countries that can make chemical and biological weapons have signed conventions against doing so -- then it is just possible that the brave new virtual world will be a little less conflict prone.

However, do not be fooled into thinking that encryption is the answer to our security problems.