at bottom :- On 20/12/2016, Jonathan Carter <jcar...@linux.com> wrote: > On 19/12/2016 21:54, shirish शिरीष wrote: >> These are the questions I had asked of Canadians as debconf will be >> happening there (in the context of demonitization which took place in >> India) >> >> https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/demonetisation-indian-state-and-world/ > > I can't see how the questions below fit into that question, but I'll > take a stab at it anyway :) >
First of all thank you all for all your varied and interesting responses. There were two competing motives for asking these questions, sharing below. a. The media as well as the Government of the day has been bombarding the public as digital payments and digital economy will wipe out all evils, i.e. wipe out corruption (as apparently black money only generates in cash at least according to the Government of the day and popular media) , Terrorism and other aspects. While I have used digital payments, I have used it myself pretty reluctantly as whatever little I have seen leaves much to be desired. Because of the above, last few days I had been casually looking at banking and ecommerce sites as to how secure they are, just from the front page itself. For instance, out of the 10 biggest banks in India, while almost all have https, some haven't implemented hsts or forward secrecy or using just SHA1 instead of SHA2 , weak ciphers and range of other weaknesses. And this is when I am on a wired interface, And this is when I have less than fleeting understanding of security. Shudder to think what weaknesses and attack surfaces a black hat would have. I also had quite a few interesting conversations with couple of friends who work and have worked on security but as this conversation itself has been longish, hence would stop here. 2. The other is media has been painting Sweden, Canada and few more countries as role models for going cashless. Using the excuse of debconf I could ask people about the changes with some practical advise and also ask how and when the change occurred and how was the transition to a mostly digital economy (this i had forgotten to ask last time hence asking now). Was it something people did for their own convenience or something that was pushed by the Government of the day in any way ? See this notice by CBDT today - http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/Lists/Press%20Releases/Attachments/571/Measures-Promoting-Digital-Payments-Creation-of-Less-Cash-Economy-19-12-2016.pdf . This was shared by our Finance Minister today. Does the public and Government of Canada believes that using digital payments does equate with less corruption, less terrorism and channelled into more productive use of the money. Ummm.... another thing is it ok with everybody if I use, quote your statements in a follow-up blog post. <snipped> Look forward to hearing from you all. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
