Our Sean O'Brien on #Aadhaar security: "Whenever a security researcher looks at an official government Aadhaar app, there are blatant privacy problems and sloppy cyber-security, such as sending data over the Internet unencrypted." http://www.businesstoday.in/opinion/columns/bad-aadhaar-cybersecurity-tramples-on-the-right-to-privacy/story/270425.html #privacy #security
link to draft version of this piece, with hyperlinks to supporting evidence: https://privacylab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/draft-sean_obrien_op-ed_aadhaar.pdf
That's a great report! If UIDAI has data on 1.3 billion Indians, you shouldn't say billions in the part about the black market. There's also a mistake in the concluding sentence.
@escapist unfortunately those typos were added by whomever posted to the website, along with a few others, which is one reason we posted the original draft: https://privacylab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/draft-sean_obrien_op-ed_aadhaar.pdf
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The two I mentioned are in the PDF.