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. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
