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‘I’m a journalist. I have to do my work,’ says Photographer Burhan Ozbilici who captured Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov’s assassination at Exhibition in Ankara

December 20, 2016

A man gestures near to the body of a man at a photo gallery in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016.(VOA)

December 20, 2016: In Ankara, when a gunman suddenly attacked Russia’s ambassador to Turkey at a photo exhibit in Monday, AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici didn’t put down his camera. Instead, he captured the chaotic scene while others screamed, hid behind columns, under the tables and lay on the floor. While the attacker waved his gun and shouted slogans, he clicked the pictures which went viral.

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Ozbilici in his article on APNews recalled the incident and wrote that he was thinking, “I’m here. Even if I get hit and injured, or killed, I’m a journalist. I have to do my work. I could run away without making any photos. … But I wouldn’t have a proper answer if people later ask me: ‘Why didn’t you take pictures?’ ”

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He further continued, “I was afraid and confused, but found partial cover behind a wall and did my job: taking photographs.”

AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici continued his work in the face of this. pic.twitter.com/mGdH37ZMei

— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) December 19, 2016

Burhan Ozbilici, @AP photographer who saw this go down and lifted camera to make pictures, is a hero https://t.co/tnqgs7zChO

— Alex Fitzpatrick (@AlexJamesFitz) December 19, 2016

My goodness. Photo by AP photographer @BurhanOzbilici in Ankara. pic.twitter.com/uBa65KMNmS

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) December 19, 2016

AP photographer continued filing, didn't flee while a gunman assassinated the Russian Ambassador to Turkey. https://t.co/0j78Lg5wOJ

— Brooke Wylie (@brookewylie) December 19, 2016

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Aadhaar Helpline Mystery: French Security Expert Tweets of doing a Full Disclosure Tomorrow about Code of the Google SetUP Wizard App

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August 4, 2018

cryptocurrency. google — Google, Facebook face greater scrutiny in Australia. Wikimedia Commons

Google’s admission that it had in 2014 inadvertently coded the 112 distress number and the UIDAI helpline number into its setup wizard for Android devices triggered another controversy on Saturday as India’s telecom regulator had only recommended the use of 112 as an emergency number in April 2015.

After a large section of smartphone users in India saw a toll-free helpline number of UIDAI saved in their phone-books by default, Google issued a statement, saying its “internal review revealed that in 2014, the then UIDAI helpline number and the 112 distress helpline number were inadvertently coded into the SetUp wizard of the Android release given to OEMs for use in India and has remained there since”.

Aadhaar Helpline Number Mystery: French security expert tweets of doing a full disclosure tomorrow about Code of the Google SetUP Wizard App, Image: Wikimedia Commons.

However, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recommended only in April 2015 that the number 112 be adopted as the single emergency number for the country.

According to Google, “since the numbers get listed on a user’s contact list, these get transferred accordingly to the contacts on any new device”.

Google was yet to comment on the new development.

Meanwhile, French security expert that goes by the name of Elliot Alderson and has been at the core of the entire Aadhaar controversy, tweeted on Saturday: “I just found something interesting. I will probably do full disclosure tomorrow”.

“I’m digging into the code of the @Google SetupWizard app and I found that”.

“As far as I can see this object is not used in the current code, so there is no implications. This is just a poor coding practice in term of security,” he further tweeted.

On Friday, both the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) as well as the telecom operators washed their hand of the issue.

While the telecom industry denied any role in the strange incident, the UIDAI said that he strange incident, the UIDAI said that some vested interests were trying to create “unwarranted confusion” in the public and clarified that it had not asked any manufacturer or telecom service provider to provide any such facility.

Twitter was abuzz with the new development after a huge uproar due to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman R.S. Sharma’s open Aadhaar challenge to critics and hackers.

Ethical hackers exposed at least 14 personal details of the TRAI Chairman, including mobile numbers, home address, date of birth, PAN number and voter ID among others. (IANS)

Also Read: Why India Is Still Nowhere Near Securing Its Citizens’ Data?