Congress deletes its membership website and app after accusing BJP of data theft

The real digital India is when two political giants enter into a war of words, accusing each other of data theft using mobile App, the Attorney General spoke about security of Unique Identification Number in courts and elections are data driven using dubious British political consulting firms.

BJP spokesperson and Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, had recently warned the Congress of stern action on links with Cambridge Analytica. It was reported that the data of millions of Facebook users had been compromised and used dubiously. The Cambridge Analytica case isn’t just an accusation produced by the rumor mills, as the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg too accepted, that their data has been misused by Cambridge Analytica. Ravi Shankar Prasad also claimed that the government will summon Mark to India, if required, on sensitive data being leaked.

A twitter handle which goes by the name ‘Elliot Alderson’, had earlier claimed that Narendra Modi android app was sharing personal details of the users to a third party US company Clever Tap.

Rahul Gandhi, who dreams to connect MRI throughout the country without foreseeing how badly this was going to bounce back, tweeted this:

He received a reply from the BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya in the same tone:

The BJP’s official twitter handle responded to Congress’ claims by stating that the PM’s mobile App is one of its kind that allows users to access it in guest mode, which means the App will not ask for any of your personal details. It also gives you the option to deny any permission to the App to access your data.

The Congress, which has been accused of sharing the details of Indians to British firm Cambridge Analytica for political gains, tried to take it as an opportunity and Ramya urged people to uninstall NaMo app from their phones. It hilariously backfired, as the install of the app actually went up.

The real game began when the twitter handle of Alderson began exposing Congress a couple of days after his initial tweet and the claims, if true, are grave.

Following are some of the things that the French hacker accuses Congress official app of:

1) Sharing the data through unsecure protocol of HTTP which means that the communication between your browser and website are NOT encrypted

2) The data that flows through Congress app is encoded weakly and can be easily decoded:

3) Servers of the App located outside India in Singapore i.e. not trusting our own country:

Amit Malviya, too in his series of tweets exposing the privacy policy of Congress app, stated that the party is sharing details with rather too many third party vendors.

Narendra Modi app, on the other hand, has contract with an Indian firm Wizrocket India and their servers too are located in India.

When Dr. Subramanian Swamy calls Rahul Gandhi a ‘Buddhu’ and New York Times calls him “terrible”, they do it for a reason. Rahul Gandhi, who was recently exposed on his lack of knowledge about the NCC that grooms youth who can later join the defense forces, tried to give his ignorance a twist. He tweeted that the NCC cadets are being forced to download the app. He went on with false accusations of app secretly recording audio, video, contact details and GPS location.

He was immediately met by a counter tweet from @fs0c131y, stating:

And the hilarious part of all the drama created by Rahul-Ramya duo is, Congress ended up deleting their mobile Application from Google Play Store and their INC membership website. On the other hand NaMo app seeing a rapid rise in downloads.