SamSays

Nobody’s cheerleader. Back after a long break and trying to make sense of all that has changed here.

[SamSays @samjawed65]

बड़े बा-कमाल हैं जनाब; फ़सल दूसरों की काटते हैं, और किसान ख़ुद को कहते हैं।

[AajTak @aajtak]

आज तक की खबर का बड़ा असर...CBSE चेयरमैन और सचिव का तबादला
OSM की जांच के लिए कमेटी का गठन
संवाददाता @Himanshu_Aajtak दे रहे हैं अधिक जानकारी

#CBSE #NTA #ReEvaluation #OSM | @anjanaomkashyap

[SamSays @samjawed65]

As we get closer to the anniversary of the AI 171 crash, expect more conspiracy theories.

[Arindam Majumder @ari_maj]

Astounding claims in the article without an inch of evidence

1) Britain ? has scrapped 787 it purchased in 2013

✅️Fact: British Airways has grounded 787s due to spare parts shortage. The groundings are since 2024, before the crash: https://t.co/buSOyM2kq5

2) Air India has grounded VT-ANA, VT-ANE for some secret work

✅️ Both these planes have been near or past the 12 years heavy maintenance check routine for 787

Air India & Joramco partnership has been publicly announced: https://t.co/s7M8vH2si3

What has happened to the famed fact check team of @thecaravanindia ?

Disheartening as a reader
Infuriating as an aviation journalist

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

@TimesNow ATLEAST GIVE CREDIT TO @datavorous_ FOR POINTING THAT OUT??? THIS IS NOT EXCLUSIVE AT ALL???? WHY ARE YOU LYING???

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

@TimesNow @_kritika_tiwari it's okay though, i don't mind if you're doing this without credit, claiming all of this as exclusive is dishonest, but i don't want any sort of credit for this. this should ultimately be the job of the media to cover this. all the best

[Article 14 @Article14live]

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[SamSays @samjawed65]

How embarrassing to put out scripted videos and then hurriedly take them down. More than anything else, it reflects poorly on our educators, who should be encouraging independent thought rather than orchestrated messaging.

[Alt News @AltNews]

CBSE asked school principals to become its social media PR team. They were handed a script, told to record videos, and urged students to "trust the system." When the campaign was exposed, the videos disappeared. | @onkeyta_

https://t.co/yxHJ20A6xu

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

very nice investigation, i wonder who did it

[Sanjay Maurya @MeSanjayy]

HT Exclusive: As #CBSE plans to penalise #Coempt for vulnerabilities in its OSM system flagged by @ni5arga and others..but it won't be able to blacklist the company

My story on how CBSE gave up its power to blacklist successful bidder through a corrigendum on Sep 20 after tender

[vir sanghvi @virsanghvi]

Sharp Edge:The Ugly Indian.
Why have Indian tourists become so unwelcome abroad? Is it because we display no consideration for local sensibilities? Is it because we can be loud & pushy? Is it because we are aggressive & arrogant (especially in Asia?)

https://t.co/L1abCohP4A

[SamSays @samjawed65]

So CBSE is thanking “alert citizens and ethical hackers” for identifying vulnerabilities in its systems.

Fair enough.

But shouldn’t these vulnerabilities have been identified by CBSE, its vendors and IT security teams BEFORE 17-year-olds found them?

[CBSE HQ @cbseindia29]

We have been closely monitoring the vulnerabilities in the OnMark portal of our service provider that are being flagged in the public domain. An expert team of cybersecurity professionals has been deployed over the last few days from across various arms of the government as well as the IITs to fortify these systems, including taking them over to a more secure set up. The identified vulnerabilities have been contained, and other exploitable weaknesses are being ruled out.
We are grateful to all alert citizens and ethical hackers pointing out such weaknesses, and have gotten in touch with some of them directly.
We request any others to reach out to our security teams at [email protected] for any further inputs.

@dpradhanbjp @EduMinOfIndia @sanjayjavin @PIB_India @PIB_Edu @DDNewslive @AkashvaniAIR @airnewsalerts @PTI_News

[SamSays @samjawed65]

Students are uncovering marksheet errors.

Students are exposing alleged vulnerabilities in the OSM system.

Students are scrutinising the tender process.

When students are forced to become investigators and auditors of their own exam process, something is seriously wrong.

Are no heads going to roll for the CBSE mess?

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

Sensitive data, including students' personal information, was processed by Google's Gemini through automation scripts prepared by quality assurance engineers at COEMPT Eduteck, CBSE's tech vendor. Ethical hacker Nisarga Adhikary (@ni5arga), who exposed #CBSE, calls it "scary" and "sad" that a third-party company allegedly sent such data to the U.S. for processing.

"Data Privacy Laws are not respected, and they should get sued for doing this without student consent," Adhikary says in conversation with Maitri Porecha (@dawalelo) and John Xavier (@johnXavier777).

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

About two dozen candidates appearing for the Uttar Pradesh BEd Joint Entrance Examination fell into a sewage drain after a dilapidated concrete slab collapsed outside an examination centre in Kanpur on Sunday morning, police said.

The incident occurred near HN Mishra PG College, where candidates had gathered at a nearby photocopy shop to obtain copies of documents required before entering the examination centre.

Read More: https://t.co/FHOZtei8Va

#BEdEntranceExam #UttarPradesh #Kanpur | @Simerchawla20

[SamSays @samjawed65]

@catale7a I have none except perhaps Good Earth mugs and a Hawkins pressure cooker. Not counting Indian grocery items and clothes.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

This is what @anjanaomkashyap said when students asked about misinformation and Fake News by mainstream media. She chose to troll me and name calling instead of giving a straight answer to a question asked on fake news by mainstream media.

[SamSays @samjawed65]

What a huge mess this is turning out to be. Hope these students get justice and those accountable face consequences.

[Shivraj Mehta @shivraj_me31605]

I am a CBSE Class 12 student.

After receiving unexpectedly low marks in Physics, we applied for photocopies of my answer sheets through the CBSE reevaluation process.

Today we received the copies.

And I am shattered because the Physics answer sheet uploaded by CBSE is not mine

[SamSays @samjawed65]

Password 123456 👏👏

[sidharth @sidharthify]

starting from @ni5arga, as everyone knows, discovered an administrative backdoor to the OnMark portal.

the password for a superadmin account with full read/write access to national exam data?

it was literally 123456

[SamSays @samjawed65]

C’mon @cbseindia29, credit where it’s due.

[nisarga @ni5arga]

@cbseindia29 when will you thank me 💔💔

[SamSays @samjawed65]

Imagine hosting prime-time segments on jhalmuri and then lecturing YouTube teachers on their content quality.

[SamSays @samjawed65]

Everyone is discussing Indians behaving badly abroad, as though we behave impeccably at home and these habits were acquired at immigration.

If we tolerate loud behavior, queue-jumping, littering, disregard for civic norms, and a lack of respect for personal space in India, why are we surprised when the same behavior shows up overseas?

“We are like this only”