TRAI Chief Getting an Insane Amount of Aadhaar Authentication OTP Requests After Twitter Blunder

Poor Security of mAadhaar App Exposed in Video Posted by Infamous Security Expert

A few days subsequently he revealed his Aadhaar number on Twitter in a misguided attempt to show the prophylactic and efficacy of the controversial ID system, TRAI Chairman RS Sharma took to the micro-blogging platform to complain nigh trolls who are plainly using his number to generate an insane corporeality of (failed) Aadhaar Authentication OTP requests that are fast draining his phone battery.

Friends. Permit's reconvene tomorrow. Small request, the failed Aadhaar Authentication requests (OTP's) are really draining my battery. I'yard always fix for effective discussions. If you accept any suggestions please share.

— Dr. RS Sharma (@rssharma3) July 30, 2018

This is the latest twist in a long series of developments over the past few days subsequently Sharma recently revealed his 12-digit Aadhaar number on Twitter and dared hackers to 'do whatever harm' to him based on that info.

As it turned out, not merely his telephone number, simply his address, banking concern accounts, PAN card, telecom operator, phone model, Air India frequent flyer ID and a whole lot more than personal details were subsequently posted online past cyber-security experts, who claimed to have extracted that data based on the Aadhaar ID.

Sharma meanwhile, continues to deny the undeniable, and even penned a piece titled 'Why I gave out my number' in The Indian Express yesterday, ardently defending his claiming to hackers and security researchers, merely refusing to admit that his actions were as well a breach. In fact, he claimed that many were failing in their attempts to withdraw money from his bank account(south), which, he argued, was proof enough that the system works as intended.

Meanwhile, his actions may take started a heated debate on social media, but some withal managed to interject the highly-politicized (and often downright insulting) interactions with hilarious memes and cartoons, every bit seen below.

https://twitter.com/icitizen47/status/1023988632007335936

Meanwhile, the main point of contention for Sharma and Aadhaar supporters seem to exist that Sharma'due south phone number was already publicly bachelor, and wasn't obtained using his Aadhaar number, even though multiple researchers have pointed out how to obtain a phone number from but an Aadhaar number.

However, what privacy advocates and cyber-security experts observe really disconcerting is Sharma's unwillingness to acknowledge that the organization suffers from grievous security flaws that could adversely affect millions of innocent citizens someday.