On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if some one posted this already. > > http://www.linuxforu.com/2011/12/aadhaar-testimony-to-foss-success-in-india/ >
That is a bad article. Aadhar hardly uses FOSS and of course is a big fraud. These things were discussed in the ilugc, fosscom lists. >From my own post in another mailing list: _______________________________________ See the threads: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg28776.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg28764.html http://www.muktware.com/bitsnbytes/2983 Article in Frontline : http://goo.gl/zDoL3 Biometrics simplified: http://thinkinganarchist.blogspot.com/2011/10/uinique-identity-biometrics-and-all.html "Adhar and the UIDAI are a fraud of the first order. They dont have a clue about identity, biometrics or security. Never mind the various social factors involved in eligibility to subsidy, recieving disbursement, corruption etc. All of which is claimed to be cured by the snake oil known as AAdhar. Mr. Nilekani is an arrogant, ignorant marketroid, in the mould of various M$ execs." Aadhar, UID and open source: "The core "deduplication" application, template creation, authentication algorithms are closed AND patented. Besides they have been lying through their teeth from day 0." "the more fundamental issues are: 1. UID is an assault on freedom, and anyway 2. it is impossible to implement 3. a lot of people are making a lot of money on this futile exercise at our expense." In Kerala, the previous Govt forced the use of Linux at the client level, "But even in Kerala they are not using it now. All are in windows. and more over the Biometric scanners works only with Windows . There is no vendor independence here , Both Scanner supply and deduplication will be done by L-1 Security solutions ( which also have former CIA people on sitting on their board)" ____________________________________________ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.in http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
