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Lakhs of government PCs can reach the core, each one trusting whoever sits in front of it. Borrow Apple's closed system — on open foundations — and make the wrong move unavailable.
The multi-year, single-vendor RFP is the root cause. Treat the core platform as an open commons instead: small priced tasks, paid per merged pull request, governed hard.
You don't fix a meltdown with experts parachuting in after the breach. You fix it with defaults that make the breach hard to commit: a federated core, HTML-first frontends, and storage you can't make public.
CBSE called its result-day collapse a cyberattack. The numbers say plain demand: 1.5 million hits in two minutes is barely four percent of its own students. This is what monolithic, one-vendor government IT produces under load.
NEET leaked, CBSE's new marking system melted down, and 23.6% of young Indian graduates are jobless. We keep debugging an exam machine we should replace.
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