Security Fails

ആധാര്‍ കേസില്‍ ഭരണഘടനാബെഞ്ച് രൂപീകരിക്കാതെ നവംബര്‍ മാസവും കടന്നുപോയി. 851 ദിവസങ്ങള്‍ പിന്നിടുന്നു, ഭരണഘടനാബെഞ്ച് രൂപീകരിക്കാന്‍ സുപ്രീംകോടതി തീരുമാനിച്ചിട്ട്. 2 വര്‍ഷവും 3 മാസവും 21 ദിവസവും. അവസാനമായി ആധാര്‍ കേസില്‍ കോടതി വാദം കേട്ടു എന്ന് പറയാവുന്നത് 2015 ആഗസ്ത്…

Children spotted a bag with a lot of Aadhaar cards at a scrap dealer’s shop in Jaipur, and informed the local councillor, reports DNA. Upon investigating, it was found that…

March 2018: In yet another classic case of hacking the biometric authentication system, 27 people were arrested in what was described as “hi-tech cheating” by a senior official in the…

Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat told reporters on the sidelines of the 14th National Conference of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) on the 7th that 32 crore Aadhaar…

The official Aadhaar enrolment software requires the Aadhaar operator to authenticate using iris scans as well as fingerprints. Huffington Post has reported an enrolment scam in Maharashtra, where Aadhaar enrolment officer,…

The Delhi High Court recently heard a Public Interest Litigation by Prof. Shamnad Basheer through which he has sought exemplary damages from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), for “negligence/…

The Privacy Policy page on the UIDAI website claims to not use cookies. This is their section on use of cookies: Cookies A cookie is a piece of software code…

In October 2017, the RBI announced a high level task force that would study and help set up a transparent and comprehensive public credit registry (PCR). The RBI’s PCR was…

The UIDAI keeps insisting that Aadhaar is secure. Biometics can’t be bypassed, enrolment software can’t be hacked, and so on. So I put together a quick list. This list is…

Chandigarh: In yet another blow to the much touted Aadhaar eco-system, a recent case of a huge “scam” involving Aadhaar seeding of a large number of ration cards with unique identity (UID)…