Meanwhile, back in the world of future breaches, a court seemingly decides that it’s okay to go ahead and purchase technology to produce national ID cards that might produce substandard and insecure cards:
The High Court on Tuesday held that implementation of a multipurpose national identity card scheme will be subject to the final outcome of a writ petition challenging the same.
Hearing the PIL filed by Sunil Sharma and others, who have sought the High Court’s directions to prevent the “sub-standard cards”, the division bench headed by Justice J S Khehar observed that the company, which has been given rights, can go ahead and procure machineries for producing the cards. He said the court will not stop the company from procuring the machinery that are sub-standard.
“Merely on the ground that huge money has been spent on purchasing the machinery, the court cannot come to a conclusion until it is assured that the mass production of the cards is not contrary to the guidelines of the scheme,” the court observed.
According to the petitioners, the technical committee issued fresh guidelines in 2007 to use UV polypatch feature to improve the quality of the cards.
The petitioner contended that three million cards have already been produced without UV polypatch, which are vulnerable to losing vital technology information, and can be tampered easily.
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