Tuesday 11 September 2018

A $35 patch reportedly let anyone in the world generate India’s Aadhaar IDs


Over the past few years, India’s Aadhaar system – which grants citizens a unique ID and access to government services – has come under fire for overshooting its prescribed applications and lack of data security. It’s not out of the woods yet, as Huffington Post India reports that it’s discovered a software patch that could have compromised the software used to enrol Aadhaar users and allow anyone in the world to register an ID. That’s worrying, because people rely on their Aadhaar IDs to receive services and benefits like subsidized rations, pensions, and scholarships. Fake IDs can allow people to…

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https://ift.tt/2x3Do8u Abhimanyu Ghoshal September 11, 2018 at 06:00AM

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