You know, that was the original idea with indian "Aadhar". I am talking about keeping up with its news on tech magazines back in 2007 when it was lauded as a FO

You know, that was the original idea with indian "Aadhar". I am talking about keeping up with its news on tech magazines back in 2007 when it was lauded as a FOSS achievement. The idea from what I can recall now was "yinput your id, you put your finger on.the reader and the backend sends a "yes/no" with a hash of the authentication. Thats it" Over subsequent years, politics fucked it up bad. They made it "compulsory". Then people started asking for photocopies. Then scans. Then people would keep and then buy and sell these scans in bulk. Then people started putting phones with multiple cards, like entire villages would be one computer operator who would keep his own phone for "otp". That operator would then sell access which would be bought for buying Sim cards, shit and frauds. Then you have the political appiontees who run this Aadhar system, those pompous assholes claim they are unhackable. Come on. Sadly they built a Pandoras box now with 1.3 billion almost demographic data, biometric data and that is scary.