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Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by duxup on Saturday April 07, 2018 @10:20PM (#16784241)
How does Aadhaar stop corruption? You think the corrupt are just going to check in with their fingerprints and "Oh man you caught me?"

This seems like a system that will just hit those with lesser means. I'm not sure I see that as equality or something that would stop corruption.

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Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by realandreskytt on Sunday April 08, 2018 @12:30AM (#16784627)
A computer cant be bribed. Move transactions online, cut out the middleman and corruption goes down. To do this, you need a strong national identity scheme. Aashaar is a good start but would need to be augmented with derived authentication mechanisms (preferably pki) to reduce reliance on the biometrics
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Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by intended on Sunday April 08, 2018 @04:50AM (#16785284)
Security failure always moves to the weakest link.

The issue with bribery is always a differential of power = rent seeking behavior.

This makes aadhar the enabler of corruption, not the remover of it, since now the State is so deeply intertwined in your life that it is inextricable.

Aadhar will long term make things more corrupt. The current levels of corruption will look childish - it returns us to pre 1980 levels of corruption

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Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by dragonwriter on Sunday April 08, 2018 @12:32AM (#16784629)
> A computer cant be bribed.

The people responsible for it can, though.

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Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by duxup on Sunday April 08, 2018 @11:53AM (#16786657)
I really don't think this is all that well thought out of a system. I have my doubts that the corruption that really plagues a nation occurs at a sort of point of sale like system that is being developed here.

You can still bribe a judge ... politician, government official just fine off the grid.

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