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> I will point out that India have the highest number of victims of cyber-fraud

Based on what?

> Another huge issue is unregulated loan apps

You don't need to root everyone's phones to regulate financial crime.

> Then there are obvious security issues with terrorism and organized crime

India is building a centralised backdoor into every phone in the country. That's a massive national security risk.



> Based on what?

Yahoo Finance report that's 3 years old, puts India at #4: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/15-countries-most-cyber-crime...

But 2024 data from PIB puts the number of occurrence much higher at 2.27 million: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressNoteDetails.aspx?NoteId=155384&M...

> You don't need to root everyone's phones to regulate financial crime.

Yes, I agree. Read this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46113070

> India is building a centralised backdoor into every phone in the country. That's a massive national security risk.

Are these what backdoors are? It's an app. It can be uninstalled, right? Are there physical backdoors like American agency NSA tried to install? Or like the Chinese phones that many suspect?

- https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-n...

- https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/xiaomis-phones-had-a-securi...


The mandate says the app can't be uninstalled.


The way for the community to fight this is to keep finding holes in the app until they stop trying to put one on.


> way for the community to fight this is to keep finding holes in the app until they stop trying to put one on

I'm not familiar with Indian activist tradition. But if we look at other countries where this happened, the technical attacks didn't work. It had to be done through policy, instead.




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