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India needs better defences to be a digital superpower after data breach

I suspect the government is right and CoWIN is not currently being accessed by hackers. Even so, it seems likely that outsiders have penetrated some aspect of India's digital public infrastructure

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By Mihir Sharma
 
If India’s leaders are proud of one big governance idea, it’s “digital public infrastructure.” Over the past few years, as every Indian received a unique numeric ID attached to their biometric data, the
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