The Citizens’ Commission on Elections has issued a report on the reliability of Electronic Voting Machines in ensuring that integrity of the electoral process is maintained and finds grave areas for concern.
EVM voting should abide by democracy principles: Citizens’ Commission on Elections Read More »
Since the last few weeks, there has been a sudden uptick of anonymous accounts supporting Aadhaar and dismissing concerns and news of information leaks, security and privacy issues. These accounts were
This post has been updated to take out some points that were misunderstood by me and have been clarified and another issue which appears to be resolved. Okay, I’m spooked.
What is this address we are supposed to report black money to? Read More »
The government of India doesn’t seem to be interested in getting security vulnerabilities fixed. A CS engineer, Bhavyanshu Parasher, has been spending his time understanding the current security standards deployed
A Digital India with no interest in fixing serious security flaws Read More »
Bhavyanshu Parasher, a young computer science engineer took a look at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Android application (among popular apps he studied for his own research purposes). The Narendra Modi app had 500,000+
What the security flaw in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s app tells us Read More »
First of all, what is National Encryption Policy? “Under Section 84A of Information Technology Act, 2000 Rules are to be framed to prescribe modes or methods for encryption”. So DeitY
DEITY National Encryption Policy is as good as forbidding encryption Read More »
Mumbai, 24thJuly 2012: Beware Mumbai citizens! Think twice before complaining against illegal building activity to MCGM’s officers on their official email id and mobile numbers, or they may threaten to
“While governments can impose curfew to bring ‘offline’ life to a halt in times of emergency, why is it unacceptable to do so ‘online’?” asked @pragmatic_d This obviously refers to
The government’s thirst for Internet Control Read More »
