[Reader-list] Top ten reasons you should get your UID ‘Aadhaar’ immediately

[Subhash]

Top ten reasons you should get your UID ‘Aadhaar’ immediately

1. You want to give all your personal information to the Americans
(L1, the subcontractors, have many ex-CIA spies on their staff and
board.).

2. You want to give all your personal information to the Chinese. You
like to live dangerously and/or want your personal details (and your
children’s) to be flashed over the internet. (In 8 months, the Chinese
hacked into the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan, and the Prime
Minister’s Office—twice. The government did not even know, it is a
study by a foreign university that brought it to light.).

3. You want to change your finger-prints regularly. When (not if) the
database is hacked the biometrics you provided will no longer be
usable. You will need another set of ‘unique’ finger prints. Guess who
will have to pay for the surgery involved. It is either that or
upgrade the whole system to a DNA bank… and when that gets hacked…

4. You like spam and pesky SMS from companies. You think that in a
country where MPs ask questions in parliament for Rs 10,000 and arrest
warrants for the President are issued for even less, your data will
not be sold to the marketing companies and anyone who can pay for it.

5. You think the government—with about 25% of the MPs involved in
crimes such as rape and murder—will not misuse the data. The
government will not lie to you.

5. You like having more ID proofs… after a passport, driving licence,
ration card. You can also get multiple UID cards…. (see
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/chaos-mars-unique-identification-number-scheme/155176-60-118.html)
which is also the reason there are two items at number five on this
list.

6. You want to make it easier for hackers to empty out your bank
accounts. UIDAI is now working with banks to make it compulsory to
have Aadhaar for opening accounts. But stored identification (like
passwords for instance) are so insecure that banks now use one time
passwords, valid for as little as 20 minutes, to be used from the same
computer it was requested.

7. You believe that there will be 100% availability of electricity and
a working broadband connexion within walking distance anywhere in this
country at all times. There will be no ‘equipment failure’ called
‘human error’ and ‘genuine mistakes’ (as in the case of the terror
list given to Pakistan).

8. You think that privacy is a western concept. Like Union Carbide (of
Bhopal disaster fame) you know that Indians are lesser human beings
and do not deserve fundamental freedoms essential to human dignity.

9. You believe that Nandan Nilenkani will personally enter the data
and verify it each time. It will not be sub-contracted out to the
lowest bidder and entered/verified by a barely literate person.

10. You believe that Anna Hazare’s campaign against corruption is ill
conceived and that the problem with the PDS is technology not human
nature of excessive power of the government machinery. You do not
believe that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely but
rather that all the officials, including those controlling the data
(including your fingerprints) are angels.

For more go to: http://openspace.org.in/UIDaadhaar