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Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested In India

Posted by samzenpus on from the curiosity-killed-the-cat dept.

whatajoke writes "Hari Prasad, a security researcher in India who had demonstrated the vulnerability of electronic voting machines used in all elections in India, was arrested by the police on charges of stealing an electronic voting machine. The election commission of India has maintained that EVM are non-hackable. The election commission had previously provided access to the device to the security researchers for a day and asked for a hack in only that time."

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  1. Disgusting Moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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    The moderators should be ashamed of themselves here.

  2. Re:governments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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  3. Re: according to the article by belmolis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In other words, the passage you repeated contributed no new information, as I suspected. And now you repeat the information I provided. Weird.

  4. Re:governments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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  5. Re: according to the article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Stupid egocentric americans are stupid and egocentric.