Never, ever challenge hackers. Apparently he was
ignorant of or perhaps believed all those security breaches were
“fake news?”
Aadhaar
Details of TRAI Chief Leaked After he Tweets His UIDAI Number
Throwing Security Breach Challenge
In a major embarassment for the Telecom Regulatory
Authority of India (TRAI), alleged personal details of its chairman R
S Sharma were leaked on Saturday after he tweeted his Aadhaar number
asking if it had made him vulnerable to any security risk.
… In a series of tweets, a French security
expert, who goes by the nickname Elliot Alderson and uses twitter
handle @fs0c131y, leaked Sharma's personal details such as address,
date of birth, mobile number, PAN card number and even WhatsApp
profile picture, explaing the TRAI chief how risky it was to make the
Aadhaar number public.
"People managed to get your personal address,
DoB and your alternate phone number. I stop here, I hope you will
understand why make your Aadhaar number public is not a good idea,"
Alderson, who is known to have revealed security loopholes in the
Aadhaar data system, wrote. He posted screenshots of Sharma's leaked
details with key areas blackened and hidden.
What exactly is TSA supposed to do? Does this
match their mission statement? (Protect the nation's
transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and
commerce.)
TSA is
tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance
program
Federal air marshals have begun following ordinary
US citizens not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list
and collecting extensive information about their movements and
behavior under a new domestic surveillance program that is drawing
criticism from within the agency.
The previously undisclosed program, called “Quiet
Skies,” specifically targets travelers who “are not under
investigation by any agency and are not in the Terrorist Screening
Data Base,” according to a Transportation Security Administration
bulletin in March.
The internal bulletin describes the program’s
goal as thwarting threats to commercial aircraft “posed by unknown
or partially known terrorists,” and gives the agency broad
discretion over which air travelers to focus on and how closely they
are tracked.
… It is a time-consuming and costly
assignment, they say, which saps their ability to do more vital law
enforcement work.
TSA officials, in a written statement to the
Globe, broadly defended the agency’s efforts to deter potential
acts of terror. But the agency declined to discuss whether Quiet
Skies has intercepted any threats, or even to confirm that the
program exists.
Release
of such information “would make passengers less safe,”
spokesman James Gregory said in the statement.
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checklist follows…
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