'Lessen'. Clever.

You could say the Brits have a BONR for nuclear power. Why, oh why couldn't it have been Nuclear Energy Regulation?

My point ( I registered) was that safeguards ALREADY exist to prevent the sort of abuse I've outlined. Remember, the official statement does not necessarily mean that the system will be used and only used as the statement says it will. If that were true, why does the official statement for the ration card program not say anything about the massive abuse that the system has seen? As for reservation, it is a political tool. Affirmative action is for **minorities**. The kind of vote bank politics we've seen lean closer to "vote for me, and I'll get you reservation in government jobs/ education". The politics would only work if the portion of the population the reservations are going to are in the *majority*. As far as tracing someone via driving license, PAN cards, etc is concerned, paperwork still has to be done to acquire the details from the relevant authorities (the phone company, the RTA (like the DMV) etc. A UUID would make that so much easier, since EVERTHING is consolidated into a single database. Distribution of power is essential to preventing it's abuse; Checks and balances and all that. But I digress. My point is that I don't trust safeguards. And putting such a massive amount of power in the hands of a known-bad system is asking for real trouble.

Or not. There was this trouble at an Indian embassy with a hijacked email account....Turns out they were using windows XP protected by....*drumroll* Trend micro. I don't remember which embassy, or who exactly was affected, nor could I find an article online, but I do remember reading about it on the front page of the Times of India.