On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 17:58 +0530, Nikhil Marathe wrote:
Hi all,
Nandan Nilekani is to start the process of issuing every Indian citizen an identity card.
hmm, so Infi is starting a new business on a large scale? nice way to solve the resession problem by doing money minting like this.
But are the platform/readers and so on based on open source standards, such that you or I can verify that it doesn't have flaws or hidden backdoors which can be misused?
The issue is not open source.
Even if they use it, they can still make the entire process closed and proprietory. Don't forget that infi *only* means business. And what ever they do under "corporate Social Responsibilities " is some thing like the old Hindi phrase "nauso chuhe kha ke billi hagh ko chali ".
happy hacking. Krishnakant.