Software engineer with 12 years of experience. I enjoy working on different technologies and always learning. I work well with a team and have experience managing it. I can be considered full stack engineer, with experience in FE, BE and Devops.
Me and my friend were fans of LinuxForU magazine, now OpenSourceForU. I once wrote a reply or so and it was printed in next edition. Inspired by that, we wrote an article, a simple one. That too was printed in next edition. We got a little money also from it, I think.
I remember admissions form of children (not sure which Indian state) that contains Aadhar (UID of India) listed in a server with directory listing enabled. Response was - the site is hosted in a secure government datacenter. No chance of leaking data.
Developer here. Its much easier and a lazy way to enable for everyone, rather than tracking ips, citizenship and show accordingly. Developers are lazy.
Remembering my Ingress days. It was the best. Was able to travel and meet a lot of people. Great community. They were not able to keep my interest. I was a key player in South India.
1. My country randomly blocks websites and services. VPN is essential.
2. Have to access some sites and services with geoIP restrictions.
3. Accessing certain sites and all which I don't want to be tracked.
4. To avoid exposing my IP.
Note that it didn't end very well for India. The initial claims are conveniently forgotten and people just suffered. More than 99% of the currency got returned anyway, contradicting government's claims.