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Reminder that the same government has leaked billions of records so far. More leaks than the people in the entire country. One example - https://www.washington
by searchableguy 7y ago
Reminder that the same government has leaked billions of records so far. More leaks than the people in the entire country.
One example - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/04/a-security-breach-in-india-has-left-a-billion-people-at-risk-of-identity-theft/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/04...
And you can find many. You won't get anyone caring about privacy in government offices. A lot of government workers here are negligent pension parasites. I expect the same in most parts.
I know of a few sites where they don't do any validation on the server side and it's easy to fake being authenticated by sending an additional header. There are quite a few sites with firebase without any granular validation or access control implemented. Some even allow SQL injection attacks using some old php framework. I sent them email but no response. And Frankly speaking, I would be very worried about sending anything security related to government without using some anonymous non traceable email because you might be put into jail.
They can't even handle surges in scale. Most government sites are broken. Any student who has ever had to deal with it knows it. Any business person who depends on those sites for approval knows it.
They also require biometrics to sign in some of those sites now. Absolutely baffling with no alternative.
This is absolutely bad. More so as when they want to release personal protection data bill around September - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Data_Protection_Bill_2019 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Data_Protection_Bil...
Obligatory internet shutdowns - https://internetshutdowns.in/ https://internetshutdowns.in/
Jio using sni to block sites - https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/reliance-jio-is-using-sni-inspection-to-block-websites https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/reliance-jio-...
They block more than porn sites including vpns and normal communication tools - https://qz.com/india/1547142/not-just-porn-indian-telecom-firms-are-blocking-other-websites-too/ https://qz.com/india/1547142/not-just-porn-indian-telecom-fi...
This is a surveillance state in the making.
- ashleshbiradar 7y agoYep India tops the list of Internet Shutdowns, they shutdown the internet for petty reasons like "school exams" so that kids don't cheat or the paper won't "leak" to shutting down internet whenever there is a mass agitation. Kashmir is an entire different thing, its been more than 8 months that the entire state has no full access to the internet.
- searchableguy 7y agoI don't think the problem is students cheating but that the test is designed in a way that cheating provides more benefit than learning/honesty. The cultural pressure cooker is also there and the rat race comes after.