Sourabh S Nath

Dev. Linux user. Sniffing around AI right now.

[Sourabh S Nath @TimeSpaceBeing]

@iamtharunraj @MacRumors That was another app, the government tried to preinstall aadhar app after that.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

IFF welcomes the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology's decision not to mandate pre-installation of the Aadhaar app on smartphones. This is the sixth such proposal in two years to collapse under industry and civil society scrutiny. This persistent pattern is itself the problem. Bundling state software with personal devices has no legislative foundation, no clear articulated public policy objective and no assessment of proportionality. Citizens carry their phones as extensions of their autonomy, not as vessels for government order. https://t.co/5ECnrvTQHL

[Aditya Kalra @adityakalra]

BREAKING: India's government has dropped a proposal to mandate preloading of biometric ID Aadhaar's app on smartphones, weeks after Reuters reported on the plan and opposition of likes of Apple and Samsung to it.

IT ministry "is not in favour" after consultation with electronics industry https://t.co/BQCTMfxI7G

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

We have partnered with @medianama for its discussion on IT Rules and the Future of Online Speech in India on April 23 in Delhi. Check out the agenda and a reading list for the discussion below.

[Paul Moore - Security Consultant  @Paul_Reviews]

Hacking the #EU #AgeVerification app in under 2 minutes.

During setup, the app asks you to create a PIN. After entry, the app *encrypts* it and saves it in the shared_prefs directory.

1. It shouldn't be encrypted at all - that's a really poor design.
2. It's not cryptographically tied to the vault which contains the identity data.

So, an attacker can simply remove the PinEnc/PinIV values from the shared_prefs file and restart the app.

After choosing a different PIN, the app presents credentials created under the old profile and let's the attacker present them as valid.

Other issues:
1. Rate limiting is an incrementing number in the same config file. Just reset it to 0 and keep trying.
2. "UseBiometricAuth" is a boolean, also in the same file. Set it to false and it just skips that step.

Seriously @vonderleyen - this product will be the catalyst for an enormous breach at some point. It's just a matter of time.

[TheNewsMinute @thenewsminute]

Bengaluru’s water crisis is deepening each summer and data centres are now part of that strain. Yet no government department can tell us how much water they actually use.

Read the full story by @kavashivani.
https://t.co/ZRA9Tq3TZU

[Sourabh S Nath @TimeSpaceBeing]

@vonderleyen I mean, just strengthen parental control on phones then? Why do they need government permission to use the internet instead

[Sourabh S Nath @TimeSpaceBeing]

@barandbench @prashantjha996 Why are the lawyers silent? Isn't it beneficial to everyone if the courts are transparent?

[Sourabh S Nath @TimeSpaceBeing]

@DeccanHerald The beautiful era when Bengaluru was called a Garden city is completely gone. Day before yesterday had the hottest night ever.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

100+ journalists, including Cory Doctorow, Rachel Maddow and many more, are backing the Internet Archive’s #WaybackMachine as essential to preserving the public record 🗂️

Read more at Fight for the Future 👇
https://t.co/xZKCrJuyZs

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@doctorow @maddow

[SANATAN @Eternaldharma_]

This is Sub-Inspector Dhananjay Singh Jatav. He was caught red-handed in October while accepting a bribe of two lakh rupees. A video showing him accepting four bundles of 500-rupee notes inside a file went viral across the internet.

Now, the High Court has granted him bail, citing the argument that the money was not recovered from his person or his pockets. Consequently, every corrupt official should now refrain from accepting bribes directly with their hands; instead, they should utilize files, bags, cloth sacks, or even plastic wrappers, since His Honor, the Judge, is inclined to grant bail based on such reasoning!

The video of Dhananjay Singh accepting the two lakh rupees remains available on every platform to this day; yet, the court has granted him bail based on such a flimsy argument. It is to be expected that he will very soon return to active duty and resume his old ways, after all, he is such a "promising" officer!

Why does the government not dismiss such individuals from service? It is not as if our country suffers from a shortage of young people willing to work!

Such dishonest individuals will invariably continue to cause harm to both the nation and society.

[Poornima Rao @RaoPoornima]

https://t.co/KTfxVb5GLt

[Sourabh S Nath @TimeSpaceBeing]

@Tejasvi_Surya @siddaramaiah Reduce metro ticket prices too along with it. There can never be a clean future when public transportation starts to feel like a burden

[Feminazi Sl@yer 🗡️ @Smash_Gynocracy]

@SamSiff Why isn't he filing a POCSO case on her❓

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Over 200 media outlets are blocking Internet Archive.

Media outlets say because AI, or something, but also (and TOTALLY UNRELATED) since they're blocking Internet Archive there is no way to tell if the government or media outlet has deleted or change something.

However, they say this is TOTALLY UNRELATED and they block Internet Archive because AI can train off Internet Archive, or something, I don't know, it's all bullshit.

https://t.co/S4OkRziTzv

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Around 3,500 people have already used our link to submit their comments to MeitY.

If you haven’t yet, please take a moment to do so. Your voice still matters.

You can find out how to send your comments in the blogpost linked here.

https://t.co/dRzHMWf77v

[Sourabh S Nath @TimeSpaceBeing]

@nikitabier @RadicalFalk But you incentivize extreme racism here and they do exactly that

[Sourabh S Nath @TimeSpaceBeing]

@livemint What's the point of looking at that when all our institutions think open source is some strange mystical creature that's worse than closed source.

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

"MeitY’s censorship architecture: Each amendment is justified as necessary, targeted and reasonable, or perhaps even procedural. Each one is framed as a response to some urgent harm ranging from misinformation to deepfake crises. But the deeper constitutional injury lies in the system being built: a state equipped to secure removals at speed, in secrecy, and at scale, with only weak obligations to explain itself to those whose rights it burdens".

[Randhir Jaiswal @MEAIndia]

Our response to media queries regarding China giving fictitious names to places ⬇️

🔗 https://t.co/j6WPzitrh2