Covid-19 crisis: French hacker targets Aarogya Setu app again, lists issues

The demand to open-source contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu has gained momentum, as French cybersecurity researcher Robert Baptiste — who goes by the pseudonym Elliot Alderson on Twitter — wrote and explained a piece detailing the issues with the app.

In a Medium post, Baptiste explained how the app could be manipulated to get data of people infected in a given area. The government has said Aarogya Setu has been downloaded by 90 million people.

“Though the app (Aarogya Setu) could be a useful tool in containing the (Covid-19) outbreak, a few tweaks and evolutions in the privacy policy will make the app more robust; it will enhance its privacy and make it more secure,” said authors of a working paper by The Dialogue, titled Privacy Framework for the Aarogya Setu App.