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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. It's not the only such claim either; earlier last year in the wake of another security controversy, another similarly spectacular claim was made : In public, UIDAI claimed Aadhaar was completely secure.

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