A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
I did SIR enumeration online. The application seems to have been written by someone who hates users and doesn’t want them to get the work done1. I have had the same EPIC number since 2002, and it is still valid. I have kept my information updated over the years. Yet, I had to...
I was sick today but the taxman won’t care about that. He doesn’t even care that I have been paying tax from the day I took my first job, very honestly 1. This taxman wants to know its me who is paying tax. I still don’t know who he thought was paying the...
#SpeakForMe is a campaign to petition Indian MPs, Banks, Mobile operators and other service providers to speak for you against the Aadhaar linking coercion. You can go to #SpeakForMe to send your petition. As part of campaign I built a quick and dirty dashboard for the emails sent. This is a quick note...
The Center for Internet and Society recently published a report called Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar numbers with sensitive personal financial information. After it was published it got wide media coverage. R S Sharma, currently chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India,...
Something strange and worrisome is happening in Hyderabad. The police there want to collect records of every resident, regardless of whether or not the person is a suspect of any crime. And it doesn’t end there. They want to collect very specific details including phone numbers, relationships, voter identification numbers and Aadhaar numbers....
It’s not a news anymore. @jackerhack has written about this in detail. To which after a denial, the man behind the accounts has apologized. I have not met Sharad nor done any business with him. I have attended a product nation conclave couple of years back. Though I noticed a recent rise in...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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