Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates
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Speaking as a citizen, ignoring "all those bloody foreigners amplifying this on social media" for a (very very brief) moment to dwell on (suppresses gag reflex) ideological "national security" rhetoric which these people no doubt kowtow to (eMudhra's head honchos and board, the central ministry MeitY etc.)...
How have they not proactively taken out all stops to fix this already in their own house? On a national-disaster-scale emergency footing, which this is!
> Well, I honestly believe it is rank incompetence. Speaking as someone who's monthly electronic GST filings, commercial authentications, and digital payments, i.e. continued livelihood, is beholden to cert and PKI authorities like eMudhra having their shit together...
> [SNIP ... Wall of Speculation ... ]
> In conclusion:
> I'm confident all federal administrations of India, current and future, will hold the lawful means to act wilfully, crudely, with impunity, at scale against India's own citizenry.
> I'm not sure whether they currently have enough incentive to have used the eMudhra cudgel, to disrupt the protestors. Sure they could MITM the protestor websites, but it's so much easier to block them and takedown their socials. And for more specific work, they already have field deployments of Pegasus and other MITM / spyware technologies.
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India is largely a cargo cult. Not to the same extent of removedness from reality, but much more widespread and commoditized.
India is so big that, you can not claim this for everyone in India. Counterexamples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman
As an Indian, I really wish if this were true...
Glory of the past doesn't exempt the incompetence of the culture present now.
To see first hand how this "Do not question authority" plays out, see this every day meeting [1] at one of the largest banks in India. Disclaimer, this video is not AI generated. Sadly it is not even satire.
Organisational (mis)behaviour---corporate and government---is simply a product of our widespread and deeply rooted feudal-bureaucratic mindset. One that both fosters and then feeds on the divisive complexities crafted from exploiting age-status, patriarchal conventions, and class and caste and religious and ethnic identities.
We are a sublimely chaotic heterogenous people. The best of us have---through the ages---been finding ways to cooperate and co-exist without giving up what they cherish most about their ways of life. The worst of us manage to always fault someone else for all their troubles, and then further incite others to do the same.