Illustration/Uday Mohite

Over the last few months, an alleged Android developer and cyber security expert, who goes by the Twitter moniker Elliot Alderson, has had the Indian government at its wits' end. Alderson has — one tweet at a time — blown the lid off the government's mAadhaar app, showing Twitter users how third-party security breaches are being committed with Indian citizens' Aadhaar data.