Aadhaar Data Protected By 13 Feet High, 5 Feet Thick Walls, Attorney General Tells SC, And Twitter Goes Berserk
KK Venugopal the Attorney General representing the government in the Aadhaar case told in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Argued that the scheme was a &ldquoserious effort to end corruption&rdquo and not a fly-by night scheme to score brownie points. Said that all the details including biometric data are being kept at a complex in Manesar near Delhi.
Does anyone remember Vishwa Bandhu Gupta? A retired IRS officer who became an internnet sensation a few years ago when a video of him giving an interview about cloud computing went viral.
Speaking about data safety Mr. Gupta went on to claim that there was some technology in US to record conversations from air and that data stored on your mobiles SIM card gets transferred to batteries and so on.
He also went on to question the reliability of cloud computing saying that it becomes ineffective at the times of rain etc.
Wondering why we are discussing this years old video here now? It seems like we got ourselves another brilliant 'scientist' who thinks digital data kept behind 13 feet high, 5 feet thick wall is safe from hackers.
At least that is what KK Venugopal, the Attorney General representing the government in the Aadhaar case told in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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Arguing that the scheme was a ¡°serious effort to end corruption¡± and not a fly-by night scheme to score brownie points, the top government lawyer said that all the details, including biometric data, are being kept at a complex in Manesar, near Delhi.
He even offered to show the five-judge bench hearing a clutch of petitions against Aadhaar a four-minute video of the complex by the CEO of UIDAI.
While we are not sure how convinced the SC judges are about the knowledge of Mr Venugopal about data safety and hacking, twitter for sure wasn't so amused at his gyan or the lack of it.
The @narendramodi Government protects electronic #Aadhaar data with commandos and a 13 foot wall as Attorney General KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court yesterday. And @NandanNilekani says ¡°There is 100% an orchestrated campaign to see how Aadhaar gets maligned¡±?! ?#BinAadhaar
¡ª Fekuji ka Fan! (@kuriabraham1963) March 22, 2018
Being a Cyber Law Expert I fully endorse @tehseenp 's statement that this Govt does not know even a bit about data protection & AG KKVenugopal makes tall claims in SC that data of Aadhar is secured under 10' wall
¡ª Ravi ????vastava urbanmaoist (@ravi4354) March 21, 2018
AG, KK Venugopal to SC: "Data collected under #Aadhaar is secure. It's kept in a building that has 10-ft thick walls."
¡ª Sushovan Chaudhuri #DestroyTheAadhaar (@mesushovan) March 21, 2018
AG means 'Asylum General'.
As @UIDAI means 'Unlimited Idiocy Delivered by Authentic Idiots'.#DestroyTheAadhaar anyway to send all these Retards to Mars.
Data encryption is outdated, India developed '13 feet thick wall technology' to protect user data. Thanks to KK Venugopal, Attorney General of India.
¡ª Swapnil Suryawanshi (@swapnil_bs) March 21, 2018
HIS NAME IS KK VENUGOPAL.... #aadhar pic.twitter.com/mCDrCyFrS5
¡ª Hunter (@Hippiezippie) March 21, 2018
UNESCO just declared @KKV1931 KKVenugopal as the best Attorney General in tthe whole world, because he has 0 nowledge on data-safety!
¡ª Fairdoc MD (@medico956) March 21, 2018
Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
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