Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) is an advocacy organisation born from SaveTheInternet.in. IFF secures your civil liberties in the digital age.
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Justice Surya Kant called unemployed youth ācockroachesā and āparasites.ā Within days, young Indians reclaimed the insult and launched the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a satirical digital movement that soon gained more Instagram followers than major political parties. 1/5
IFF's founder director @apar1984 wrote for @techpolicypress
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Then came the cybersecurity revelations. Teen researchers uncovered critical vulnerabilities in CBSE's systems, including exposed credentials and publicly accessible data. Despite prior warnings, authorities appeared slow to respond until the findings became impossible to ignore. 4/5
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These aren't separate stories. The rise of the Cockroach Janta Party, the CBSE fiasco, and the work of young cybersecurity researchers all point to the same trend: a generation increasingly unwilling to accept opacity, incompetence, and the absence of accountability in institutions that shape their futures. 5/5
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How did 48 crore people receive messages from Viksit Bharat Sampark?
An RTI response reveals that the outreach relied on WhatsApp chatbots, AI-powered calls, manual calls, beneficiary databases from government schemes, and TRAI's subscriber database. It also shows that nearly ā¹19 crore was allocated for the initiative.
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The bigger question isn't whether there was a data breach, itās whether existing laws provide adequate safeguards when personal data collected for welfare and public services is repurposed for large-scale government outreach, especially during an election period.
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Read More: internetfreedom.in/rti-respoā¦
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Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) retweeted
Jun 10
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Data Is Oil
Oil Is E85
How did 48 crore people receive messages from Viksit Bharat Sampark?
An RTI response reveals that the outreach relied on WhatsApp chatbots, AI-powered calls, manual calls, beneficiary databases from government schemes, and TRAI's subscriber database. It also shows that nearly ā¹19 crore was allocated for the initiative.
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Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) retweeted
Jun 10
This is where public money is going and completely a waste.
How did 48 crore people receive messages from Viksit Bharat Sampark?
An RTI response reveals that the outreach relied on WhatsApp chatbots, AI-powered calls, manual calls, beneficiary databases from government schemes, and TRAI's subscriber database. It also shows that nearly ā¹19 crore was allocated for the initiative.
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Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) retweeted
Jun 10
Apart from the misuse of public funds for election, the more concerning part is that govt used TRAI Universal Wireless Telephone Subscriber Database, which is basically a database of all Indian phone numbers issued by Indian telecom service providers, along with their KYC info.
How did 48 crore people receive messages from Viksit Bharat Sampark?
An RTI response reveals that the outreach relied on WhatsApp chatbots, AI-powered calls, manual calls, beneficiary databases from government schemes, and TRAI's subscriber database. It also shows that nearly ā¹19 crore was allocated for the initiative.
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Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) retweeted
Jun 10
Getting a DM from PM cost Rs 19 crore of public money.
How did 48 crore people receive messages from Viksit Bharat Sampark?
An RTI response reveals that the outreach relied on WhatsApp chatbots, AI-powered calls, manual calls, beneficiary databases from government schemes, and TRAI's subscriber database. It also shows that nearly ā¹19 crore was allocated for the initiative.
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RT @SushantSin: This is what the money is being used for, when the claim is that there is not enough in the government coffers to pay for tā¦
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IFF received ā¹43.87 lakh in May. Of this, ā¹39.68 lakh came from one-time donors and ā¹4.19 lakh came from our 498 monthly members.
These contributions, boosted by our annual donation drive, will help sustain our work until September 2026.
While our membership community reached 530 during the drive, 498 members continue to support us every month. To sustain a full year of defending digital rights, we need 1,000 monthly members.
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Our work is only possible because of our community. Thank you for standing with us.
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Paging @IndianCERT
Jun 7
New day, new pwn š«
āCertified secureā lore just got funnier.
Reports said Coempt gave CBSE cybersecurity certificates linked to OneX/BPUT/pre-production context not clearly CBSEās actual OnMark production system.
So I looked at OneX too, and guess what? Critical vulnerability found. Direct super admin access without OTP, verification, approval flow, hardcoded master password, brute force, credential stuffing, or social engineering. Just broken access control at the worst possible privilege level.
Reported responsibly, and CERT-In along with the concerned team moved fast to get it patched. a certificate from some other scope or environment does not mean your real production ecosystem is secure. Audit scope matters. Production security matters more.
#CBSE #OSM #ONMARK #COEMPT #CYBERSECURITY
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Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) retweeted
An actual, CERT-in Empanelled Auditor gave a Security Clearance, in WA/PT to Coempt's OneX platform for BPUT. As per HT report.
It took tirth a single endpoint to change the master password. Full Admin Access.
India is in danger, from CERT-in's incompetence.
Jun 7
New day, new pwn š«
āCertified secureā lore just got funnier.
Reports said Coempt gave CBSE cybersecurity certificates linked to OneX/BPUT/pre-production context not clearly CBSEās actual OnMark production system.
So I looked at OneX too, and guess what? Critical vulnerability found. Direct super admin access without OTP, verification, approval flow, hardcoded master password, brute force, credential stuffing, or social engineering. Just broken access control at the worst possible privilege level.
Reported responsibly, and CERT-In along with the concerned team moved fast to get it patched. a certificate from some other scope or environment does not mean your real production ecosystem is secure. Audit scope matters. Production security matters more.
#CBSE #OSM #ONMARK #COEMPT #CYBERSECURITY
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When coercive digitisation is being forced onto you, itās not really an insult to be called a Luddite.
(Excerpt from @thewire_in wrapped hosted by @SravastiDasgup2)
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Just use cloudflare bro
Jun 5
CBSE PRESS RELEASE:
CBSE lodges complaint with Delhi Police regarding coordinated cyber attacks on its Post-Result Services Portal. All attacks were successfully mitigated through 24Ć7 monitoring, with no data breach or compromise of systems.
Details here cbse.gov.in/cbsenew/documentā¦
@dpradhanbjp @EduMinOfIndia @sanjayjavin @PIB_India @PIB_Edu @DDNewslive @AkashvaniAIR @airnewsalerts @PTI_News
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