The guy with the red and the electric scooter.. Opinions are my own and generally sarcastic.

Pune
Joined July 2008
On the ocassion of the opening of the Pune Metro Line 3 today, here's a new episode : Ass****s of Pune | EP12 The day the road stopped and never started again. University Chowk, six years on. A nature documentary.
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North Block houses the ministry of home and finance.
Noticed thick smoke rising from behind North Block while on my way to Parliament. It appears there may be a fire. Hope everyone is safe and emergency services are responding swiftly.
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Akshay retweeted
Ready for the biggest celebration of year? It's that time of the year when we clean the dust off our gears, wake up early, suit up in new clothes and spend time doing what we love the most! #VetalTedki #BirdingMarathon starts Nov 5th Register here - vtbm.in
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Modi-Shah’s Manipur: An elected MP stopped inside his own state. Bimol Akoijam: “This is the India-Kuki border.” A buffer zone -or a silent partition? Where is the legal order?
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Hey @SamsungIndia .. when you going to remove them from your trust store?
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We're really screwing up our environment... every day little by little in the greed to become viksit, but we're going to be vikSHIT. Remember these words.
Why does @gautam_adani need 600 acres of prime forest in Bhimashankar, Western Ghats for a pharma factory? Who has given @Dev_Fadnavis the authority to handover forest land that belongs to us all? Do not blame climate change for drought in Maharashtra. #SpeakUpNowToSaveForests
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#पुणे महावितरण मुजोर संस्था आहे, त्यांना बाकी कोणाचे देणेधेणे नसते. मनमर्जी काम करत असल्याने काही दिवसांपूर्वी शहरातील ५१ सिग्नल बंद पडून प्रचंड वाहतूक कोंडी. काल सिंहगड रोडवर पूर्वकल्पना न देता खोदकाम केल्याने ४ KMच्या रांगा लागल्या होत्या. याचे खापर पेलिस व महापाविकेवर फुटले.
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In other news, the think tank drafting India's roadmap to a $30 trillion economy has this week cleared 1 staircase corner, wiped 1 canteen exhaust hood, disposed of 13 grievances & sold Rs 20,500 of scrap. Well what can I say... Happy Diwali !!
As part of Special Campaign 6, unwanted and redundant items were removed from the fourth-floor corridors of NITI Aayog. The initiative has reclaimed usable space, improved the appearance of the office, and enabled more effective use of the available premises. It also reinforces the importance of keeping common areas clutter-free and maintaining a clean, orderly workplace that supports efficient space management and good governance. #SpecialCampaign6 #Swachhata #GoodGovernance @PMOIndia | @narendramodi | @Rao_InderjitS | @MIB_India | @PIB_India | @DDNewslive | @ashoklahiribjp
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Akshay retweeted
156 Indian government websites are currently inaccessible because of a cert revocation by @eMudhra, including 4 that come under @GoI_MeitY. One of them is @ccaindiapki - which regulates eMudhra. cc @internetfreedom I made a list: captnemo.in/blog/2026/10/23/…
Replying to @GoI_MeitY
The reported security incident pertains to this only. MeitY is not involved in its audit. The impact of this incident on Indian websites and applications have been very limited and for a very short interval.
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Here's why the eMudhra screwup is of colossal proportions.. Any embedded/IoT device that trusts their compromised roots and never checks revocation accepts forged signatures forever. A permanent hole in every device.
Everyone who owns hardware with abominable software (like Sonos players) owes a debt of gratitude to Venkatraman Srinivasan and the rest of the eMudhra gang in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Without their gross negligence, it'd be a lot harder to counterfeit certificates and fix the sw🙏
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Doesn't matter how "locked down" the hardware seemed. If it trusted an eMudhra root and never checks revocation, it's now permanently open.
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mitmproxy 12.3.0 already has emudhra flags to sign certs with the compromised key. Point a flag at your device, MITM the traffic, and hardware that used to take real exploit work to crack is now trivial.
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A new day and a new security issue in India.. Frankly.. not surprised anymore. The cert holding NPCI's key in UPI apps expired in Sep 2025 (per @captn3m0). UPI works. Nobody noticed. Which is exactly the problem. Thread ...
Since the entire internet cares about critical certificates today, a reminder @UPI_NPCI has been running on an expired cert since Sep 2025. Issued by IDRBT, which is now managing all of *.bank.in.
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... Instead we get "chalta hai" Cert expired, payments running, so why touch it? Great jugaad for a scooter but not a key management policy for crores of PINs ...
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... And RSA won't last forever. RBI has a quantum committee (NPCI is on it) and the national roadmap talks 2027 to 2029. But I haven't seen NPCI say what happens to the key inside every UPI app. Setting up committees is not a migration ...
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