While you need some technical knowledge to parse the reports, the arsenal analysis is sound and strong.
All they have done is recover the filesystem logs and proved the following:
As to who did it, I found one indian actor coming out in the threat databases, who uses the same C2 server at least twice and one of them matches too close to the period, the documents were planted.
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The actor's other targets indicate espionage operations. So most likely this is a mercenary operator, who uses Commercial Off the shelf malware and does some customization.
It is not necessary to know who at this point, the BKC case has totally collapsed.
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All that remains is the courts and the watali judgement. Until then, I expect the BKC arrestees to be in jail.
This is the proud legacy of the SC, upholding not individual rights, but dishing out interpretations which are even harsher than that of the state on terror laws.
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So don't get too excited about pushing for surveillance reforms. It is important no doubt.
But for immediate relief, litigation must focus on overturning Watali.
After scouring half of bangalore, got mum vaccinated for the 2nd dose. Not a single private hospital had vaccine. Only govt. Primary health care centers.
There is cheek-a-bowl crowd and the one before my mother had a high temperature and was pulled out from the crowd.
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PHC's are also fever clinics. So you get exposure to the virus there as well. As to masks, not everyone wears it and PHC workers are exhausted.
Lines are long b/c cowin registration does not work and paper IDs are the only thing that work. Otherwise they can do it faster.
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4 hours on the Q with cheek-a-bowl crowd containing mix of infected and about to get vaccinated. Quite possible to catch a virus there before the vaccine kicks in and every such death/infection creates vaccine hesitancy.
Not looking good. There is more, much more than what has been reported so far.
5 years ago: Sure, you do SQL backups, but have you ever tried restoring them?
Now: We do SQL backups, but misconfigure the AWS backup bucket so badly, that we did not even configure cloud watch logs, and this allows hackers to spawn VMs to check restore and siphon off data.
If 100 rupees of grain is sent via the PDS distribution channel and only 60 rupees goes to the beneficiary, economists talk about 40% leakage and corruption.
Now if AEPS fails 40% of the time, what is the corruption and leakage? This is world beating technology?
For all practical purposes, transfer costs of moving money from one bank account to another is Zero. NEFT and RTGS are dated systems, but they work reliably.
But AEPS is not NEFT, RTGS. It adds 3 more layers.
The Aadhaar Mapper and 2 Seeding Layers.
Seeding Layer 1 is adding your UID to the benefit scheme.
Seeding Layer 2 is adding your UID to your bank account.
And then Transfer is not to the destination bank account directly but by an intermediate switch called the Aadhaar Mapper.
The amazing thing about people criticizing the PM for suggesting lamps and plates is that they simply don't understand him. He has taken the corono crisis to not only increase his follower count, but has also turned them into a cult.
Cults are immune to facts and figures and in fact revel in the irrational and thrive in opposition to the cult. They are fundamentally anti-intellectual and by pass it fully to appeal to the emotions and thereby create long lasting loyalty.
The plate banging and diya lighting are demands to sacrifice rationality. Once done, the follower fully merges with the cult. They may retain their wisdom on other things but their loyalty to the PM is sealed.
(Read Second Foundation, The Mule by Asimov to understand this).