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30 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Data leaks left, right and centre, data leaks every other week. 🌊 We're all affected.

But what do tech companies themselves think about the privacy of their users? We surveyed 130+ companies. Here is what we learnt. Many insights here. ✨

hasgeek.com/PrivacyMode/pr…
Take this, for example:

Q: What do you do when your company has an ‘oops’ moment?

A: 🤷

hasgeek.com/PrivacyMode/pr…
Privacy is “an elite concern” says one, somewhat apologetically.

hasgeek.com/PrivacyMode/pr…
At the same time, nearly everyone thinks they take privacy seriously.

hasgeek.com/PrivacyMode/pr…

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Kiran Jonnalagadda Profile picture
29 Mar
The MobiKwik leak is real. Here is what the dump had for me. One of those credit cards was valid until a couple weeks ago, and I don't recall authorising MobiKwik to save it. Companies that lie like 👇 ought to be taken to the cleaners.
Check for yourself here (requires Tor). It's under heavy load and timing out, so you may need to come back later.
Twitter has flagged the .onion URL as malicious, so it can no longer be shared. Boo, Twitter!

How does one determine this data is from Mobikwik? There are three indicators to work with. 👇
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12 Mar
Placed a test order on AliExpress to probe the ban. Item has arrived. I'm very pleased with myself. More testing ongoing, should have reliable results in several weeks.
Method 1: ask seller if they can ship to India, even though you've placed an order from a different country. May or may not work.

Method 2: use a package forwarder in a different country. The trick is to find a reliable one. (Tests ongoing.)
If using a package forwarder, it helps to not pay customs duty in the forwarder's country, so it needs to be local. However, AliExpress doesn't accept China as destination country either.

Fortuitously, Hong Kong is an accepted destination and has no customs duty. Yay free trade!
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31 May 20
⚠️ Aarogya Setu is not open source. We got a press release and some random code to keep the public distracted. The released code is not for the app that everyone is using. ⚠️
While the released code may indeed be for *some* version of Aarogya Setu:
1. It is not the version you're using. We have no idea what is different.
2. Developers are ignoring reports of serious vulnerabilities.
3. Actual development is elsewhere in a closed source repo.
Where is the actual source code? Notice the URL here.
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23 Sep 19
I went to the Bangalore General Post Office today to enquire about a parcel that's been stuck in transit since July. It's somewhere in there. One customs official was valiantly opening everything to determine the tax on all the $1 and $2 trinkets people order from AliExpress.
Each of those bags contains parcels from the landing ports of Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai. Anything that arrived in the past few weeks hasn't even been recorded as having arrived. They're months behind on the backlog. Here's a sample. Chennai to Bangalore took June to September.
Why is this happening? Back in 2015, a customs official showed me a memo. All personal imports above ₹2000 (i.e., you're not a registered importer) we're to be taxed at a flat rate of 40 something percent. The official explained that this was to encourage #MakeInIndia.
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23 Jan 19
Out of an abundance of caution, I have changed my phone number at three banks where I have accounts. This has utterly broken UPI for me. The UPI ecosystem treats phone number as primary identity. A new number means you're a new person. The situation is tragi-comic.
SBI let me change phone number online. It sent OTPs to both old and new numbers, and once I keyed them in, I was done. This is shockingly efficient given what follows.
ICICI required me to enter the new phone number at an ATM. They sent confirmation by SMS to both numbers. However, the update has not actually happened. UPI is still active on the old number after two weeks, despite two attempts to change it.
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