Legislators, who are wittingly or unwittingly promoting UIDAI’s biometric data collection, have committed an inexcusable, unpardonable blunder. Our future generations may deem this to be an act of treason for having facilitated entry of cyber Trojans that endangered India's territorial integrity by hollowing it from within
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of US, who was assassinated in 1865
The Internet was conceived and designed by a man named Larry Roberts in 1963. Larry
was invited to Washington by Ivan Sutherland, the then head of Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)’s computer research. Internet was called ARPA network (ARPAnet) then and was designed to be a fail-safe messaging system that packetized information. The military was funding ARPAnet at a time when the cold war was almost at its peak. Some countries including United States, want to make sure that there is some means for them to listen into messages, like wiretapping.
-Prof Nicholas Negroponte, author of Being Digital, 1995