Biometrics is the technical term for body measurements and calculations. It refers to metrics related to human characteristics. Biometricsauthentication (or realistic authentication) is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control.
Union Minister of State for Home, Hansraj Ahir has said that the Center will look into sharing Aadhaar data with police for identifying first time offenders and dead bodies, reports PTI. He was speaking at the 19th All India Conference of Directors of Finger Prints Bureau in Hyderabad. Yesterday, PTI had Read more…
The NCRB Director, Ish Kumar has requested Hansraj Ahir, Union Minister of State for Home to provide access to Aadhaar data to the police, reports PTI. He was speaking at the 19th All India Conference of Directors of Finger Prints Bureau in Hyderabad Ahir also wants an “early intervention” by the Read more…
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 Rajasthan Police Constable Entrance Examination 2018. The accused said they learnt the art of making a thumb-print clone on youtube. Read more…
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, Mangesh Sitaram Bhalerao provided people who worked under him with rubber stamp copies of his thumbprint. These rubber stamp fingerprints Read more…
Ghosts! The very term is evocative. Widely perceived as parasitical and feeding off the human body, the term generates the strong unconscious reaction of wanting to get rid off them. The hard part though is to convince people that ghosts exist because otherwise they would not be too willing to Read more…
On August 24th 2017, WikiLeaks published secret documents from the ExpressLane project of the CIA pertaining to the cyber operations the OTS (Office of Technical Services), a branch within the CIA conducts against liaison services. The OTS provides a biometric collection system to liaison services around the world with the Read more…
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 under construction. Keep checking for updates. April 2012: An enrolment agent was found to have issued 30,000 Aadhaar cards in Read more…
Frequent warnings by banks and police are apparently not the solution to combating debit/credit card fraud. The Hindu reports that Cyber Cell officials in Kerala’s Kozhikode district are discovering three new cases every month on average. The victims are usually educated middle-class families or the elderly, and many are yet Read more…
There are seven questions we challenge UIDAI to give a proper answer for (and one bonus). What happens when stolen biometrics compromise a person’s identity? Consider the example of the bank officer whose fingerprints got duplicated and sold to provide illegal access to create and update Aadhaar cards. There are Read more…
Telangana Benefit Disbursement Portal shows dropping authentication success ratio in 2018 with regard to NREGA and social pensions at 86.14% – it was 90.99% in December, 2017, and 91.87% in November, 2017. This is an average failure of at least 10% authentication, and growing in the last few months Of Read more…