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How does Aadhaar stop corruption? You think the corrupt are just going to check in with their fingerprints and "Oh man you caught me?"

This seems like a system that will just hit those with lesser means. I'm not sure I see that as equality or something that would stop corruption.

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A computer cant be bribed. Move transactions online, cut out the middleman and corruption goes down. To do this, you need a strong national identity scheme. Aashaar is a good start but would need to be augmented with derived authentication mechanisms (preferably pki) to reduce reliance on the biometrics

> A computer cant be bribed.

The people responsible for it can, though.

Security failure always moves to the weakest link.

The issue with bribery is always a differential of power = rent seeking behavior.

This makes aadhar the enabler of corruption, not the remover of it, since now the State is so deeply intertwined in your life that it is inextricable.

Aadhar will long term make things more corrupt. The current levels of corruption will look childish - it returns us to pre 1980 levels of corruption

I really don't think this is all that well thought out of a system. I have my doubts that the corruption that really plagues a nation occurs at a sort of point of sale like system that is being developed here.

You can still bribe a judge ... politician, government official just fine off the grid.

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