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Indian Election Officials Challenges Critics To Hack Electronic Voting Machine (thehindu.com)
Slashdot reader erodep writes: Following the recent elections in India, there have been multiple allegations of electoral fraud by hacking of Electronic Voting Machines... Two weeks ago, a party even "demonstrated" that these machines can be hacked. The Election Commission of India has rubbished these claims and they have thrown an open challenge, starting June 3rd to hack these EVMs using WiFi, Bluetooth or any internet device. This is a plea to the hackers of Slashdot to help secure the future of the largest democracy on the planet.
Each party can nominate three experts -- though India's Aam Aaadmi Party is already complaining that there's too many terms and conditions. And party leader Sanjay Singh has said he also wants paper ballots for all future elections, arguing "All foreign countries like America, Japan, Germany and Britain have gone back to ballot paper."
Each party can nominate three experts -- though India's Aam Aaadmi Party is already complaining that there's too many terms and conditions. And party leader Sanjay Singh has said he also wants paper ballots for all future elections, arguing "All foreign countries like America, Japan, Germany and Britain have gone back to ballot paper."
Britain never switched away from paper ballots, so it hasn't gone back.
So he issued an open challenge to hack the election two weeks after it was demonstrated hacks were easily possible?
*gets the popcorn* This should be entertaining. I wonder how many meters deep the smoking craters of their servers will be.
so goat.se or tubgirl? Or trol lo lo?
Hope they enjoy the taste of crow.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Is a receipt too much to ask for in a vote??
Get CowboyNeal elected as India's PM!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
So you want to do the opposite of other countries just to be different or avoid being a follower? Even when it doesn't make sense?
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What a stupid strawman argument. As if looking to others' experiences somehow implies that anyone is suggesting copying because they're former colonial powers.
There are, and rightly so, huge concerns with any election that doesn't have verifiable paper ballots or receipts. That's reality the world over and has zilch to do with colonialism. It affects Italy as it does India and the American countries as it does those in Africa.
Bruce Schneier isn't a colonialism (at least not that I'm aware of), rather he's one of the most highly regarded experts on computer security. The points he raised in 2004 are every bit as valid today. Or, as he said elsewhere, "a secure Internet voting system is theoretically possible, but it would be the first secure networked application ever created in the history of computers."
What could possible go wrong with code written by ex taxi drivers?
Trump wins election in India. Will be making curry great again. The best.
So, according to him, Indians should simply follow the west like a trailer?
If you have a choice of X and Y, and you notice that almost everyone else, including people that that did plenty of due diligence, chose X over Y, then that is pretty solid evidence that X is a better choice. If some people that chose Y, later admitted it was a mistake and went back to X, then that is even more evidence for X. If, despite all that, you want to choose Y, then you should be able to explain why everyone else is wrong.
There is only one way to do electronic elections.
You can have an electronic ballot machine, and it will store and tabulate the votes.
The key part is that it also prints the ballot in large clear print showing what you picked. This paper ballot is the "source of truth". So the election will use the electronic ballots for a quick result. Any interested party can participate in scrutinizing the paper ballots and in the case of a discrepancy, the paper ballots will be used.
As for online voting, HELL NO.
The "receipt" is left at the voting location, placed inside a locked box that cannot be opened there.
The "receipt" needs to have enough text on it for an average person/voter to review and see their actual votes.
In this way, 100% separate counts is possible to validate the electronic counts which can be manipulated. If a human cannot take all the paper and come up with the exact same numbers for each candidate, then you don't have enough traceability.
PERIOD.
Maybe the machines can't be "hacked", as we commonly define the word. But somewhere, one or more people have the keys to the kingdom: the passwords, code, access, and whatever else is necessary to make the machines do whatever they're told to do, then remove all proof they were compromised.
So all these "hack it, if you can" dares mean nothing. "Hacked" does not mean "compromised", though people with a real interest in stealing an election would like us all to forget that distinction.
Unless the machine spits out a paper ballot on the spot, and the voter can immediately rectify a wrongly-recorded vote (with proof), anything is possible. Only complete idiots would trust a vote-by-machine election without some unimpeachable method for verifying the results.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
That's what would be written if the man had any ties to Trump.
X has death panels!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Voting data is extracted by taking a memory module out of the machine and plugging it into a tabulator or something. The memory chip is physically transported to the tabulator under seal. Police, election officials and agents accompany the chip. This was what the documentary showed way back when it was introduced.
This machine was designed by an engineer for BEL (Bharat Electronics Limited) who is very famous for his writings. He goes by the pen name Sujatha and has written wonderful science fiction, mystery novels, humorous articles and some formal literature and formal poetry.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Yeah...
India was never a colony of America, Japan or Germany. Just of Britain. So it hardly makes sense to suggest that Indians want to copy the other 3 for reasons other than them actually being superior in their bureaucracies.
If you have a choice of X and Y, and you notice that almost everyone else, including people that that did plenty of due diligence, chose X over Y, then that is pretty solid evidence that X is a better choice. If some people that chose Y, later admitted it was a mistake and went back to X, then that is even more evidence for X.
You should talk to the PM of Australia - still forcing the build of a copper based communications network (primarily fibre to the node, then copper to the premise) when every other country / company is abandoning copper for straight through fibre for fixed line.
If, despite all that, you want to choose Y, then you should be able to explain why everyone else is wrong.
Smart politicians ensure their words contain enough ambiguity to weasel out of poor decisions. The first excuse is infallibly "blame the previous guy".
CV sent,
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