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Then for actual interaction purposes, to rely on biological verification? eg. widespread retina and fingerprint scanning.
As a side effect this would somewhat limit tax evasion - if all tax returns and income were public, as in countries like Norway.
(1) https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/S6Ep52qB9PK1DRLFUbUDBK/The-...
This smells a bit off: why is there no detail whatsoever on what exactly they breached? The "Indian Government" (central, state, other?) is a sprawling octopus that employs on the order of 50 million people, and there's a world of difference between breaching the public site of the Department of Fertilizers ( https://fert.nic.in/ ) vs getting into the internal systems of the Ministry of External Affairs. The only clu…
This smells a bit off: why is there no detail whatsoever on what exactly they breached? The "Indian Government" (central, state, other?) is a sprawling octopus that employs on the order of 50 million people, and there's a world of difference between breaching the public site of the Department of Fertilizers ( https://fert.nic.in/ ) vs getting into the internal systems of the Ministry of External Affairs. The only clu…
"Indian government" means central government, not state. Just like "US government" always refers to the federal government.
So in the process of communicating with the Indian Government to resolve the issues responsibly, they announce on Twitter "We Breached The Indian Government!!!". What is wrong with them?
But its a fault of Indian Government too. They hire programmers who are less competent to save budget for salary. And if someone reports some vulnerebility I bet these government police will come after the reporter. And there is no incentives too.
> Governments have an obligation to protect the private data of its employees and citizens. In addition, the exposure of proprietary government data can be used for great means of manipulation and for other destructive purposes. Understandable. > While the NCIIPC operates a Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Program, the recklessness and avoidance of communication represents the complete opposite of a responsible p…
Is there any financial incentive to secure an Indian citizen's data ? In fact, there's more financial incentive to make things leaky, less work needs to be done to peek into your neighbors yard, and the vast (vast, vast) majority of the people cannot give a damn about this. Frankly, I'm surprised they replied with an acknowledgement and tried to fix some vulns. Expect no more changes.
Indian Government Sold Driver Licence Data to 87 Private Companies for Rs 65 Crore - https://www.news18.com/news/auto/government-sold-drivers-lic...
So in the process of communicating with the Indian Government to resolve the issues responsibly, they announce on Twitter "We Breached The Indian Government!!!". What is wrong with them?
If these guys were Indian pretty sure they would be facing jail time for exposing such vulnerabilities (1) (1) https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/S6Ep52qB9PK1DRLFUbUDBK/The-...