The finger mark is to prevent you from voting more than once.
The voting ID card is to ensure that you are a citizen and allowed to vote. Without the finger mark, you could still get someone else's voting card and try to vote again.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010312/main4.ht m
How to tamper with voting machines!
Prabhjot Singh
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 11
Can electronic voting machines (EVMs) be tampered with?
"Yes", says Mr Amarinder Singh, president, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, supporting his assertion by giving a demonstration of how an EVM with a cleverly programmed chip installed in it can transfer votes polled by one candidate to another leaving no remnants of the original voting pattern.
"Convinced that these EVMs can be manipulated, we are going to make a presentation to the Chief Election Commissioner, Dr Manohar Singh Gill, in New Delhi next week and request him to revert to the original system of voting using ballot papers. If the commission does not listen to us, we will have no choice but to knock at the door of the judiciary to get EVMs out of the elections," asserts Mr Amarinder Singh.
Capt Amarinder Singh demonstrates how a "fudged electronic voting machine" works. -- A Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan
Mr Amarinder Singh carries a set of EVMs, including the control unit, which during elections remains with the presiding officer of a polling station, and gives a "demonstration of how the programmed chip transfers the votes of one candidate to another".
"We got suspicious about what we call 'sophisticated booth capturing' when we found that there was 129 per cent increase in the votebank of Akalis at Nawanshahr, 100 per cent at Sunam and now 65 per cent at Majitha. The ruling party did well wherever EVMs were used while at other places, we did well. This we did by analysing all elections in the state since 1997," says the PPCC chief, admitting that "my wife and Mr Jagmeet Singh Brar were elected to the Lok Sabha from constituencies where EVMs were used. But till that time, for the ruling Akali Dal, EVMs were something new and unique.
"But once they put their electronics experts on the job, they could immediately find a solution. Whatever the Election Commission says about EVMs is not true. The mother boards, after being removed from the EVMs, do not crash but work perfectly after being soldered back in the machine. Similarly, wave welding, which the Election Commission maintains is not available in India, is very much available at various places in the country," asserts the Punjab Congress chief.
"We put our hardware and software experts on the job. They not only came out with different programmed chips but also revealed how these EVMs had been condemned the world over. Many countries, including Germany, France and the UK, had gone back to the conventional ballot paper polling by discarding the EVMs," he said before giving a demonstration of how an EVM with a programmed chip installed in it "works wonders".
"A programmed chip will not cost much. It is both timed and programmed to convert the votes polled by one candidate to those of another. It is only the final position that will remain on the hardchip or all three memories, thus leaving no scope for anyone to find out the original pattern of voting," he says during the demonstration. "Seventeen votes are cast of which three go to candidate number 1, one each to candidates number two and three, 11 to candidate number 5 and one to candidate number 7. And after a while, when the votes are counted, the machine gives 13 votes to candidate number 1 and four to candidate number 2 and nothing to the rest.
"So each machine can be programmed to transfer, say, every third vote polled by the Congress to the Shiromani Akali Dal. In the Chamunda Devi area, which is a traditional Congress stronghold, our candidate lost during the recent Majitha Assembly byelection. This strengthens our conviction that EVMs were programmed.
"Let bygone be bygone. We do not want this 'sophisticated booth-capturing' to continue anymore. We do not want EVMs but want that in all future el
Its a common myth that in India workers need not be paid for salary plus benefits. The law requires that 12.5% of the salary is deposited in a provident fund. The employer must contribute another 12.5% to it. Medical Insurance, gratuity (retirement pension), leave travel allowance, paid vacations, and meal allowances are standard benefits here.
"What people tend to forget is that there are gatekeepers in the open-source community, too," he said. "It's not a free-for-all. On every one of the open-source projects, there are two or three people who are the gatekeepers. And you have to make a pretty good case, accurate and technically astute, to get them to allow changes. That's how it should be."
There are no gatekeepers. They just maintain a tree. You are free to build yoour own tree. Sheeshh!! When will these *analysts* get the details right?? Moron!!!!
I agree disclosure is a tricky situation. On the other side, would you like to keep running vulnerable services till the vendor patches them? What if in the meantime someone else finds the same vuln and exploits it? Or what if the the person/group who released the advisory *inadvertently* release it to the public or worsse, to a set of crackers?
IMHO, there has to be a mid-day between disclosure only to vendor and full public disclosure. Maybe bugs+exploits can be submitted to a mailing list with auto-approval set to two days?? And a CC to the vendor.
Notice how both vulnerabilities, from Cisco and Microsoft, were not released to the public first. Instead the public announcement comes after the vendors have the patches.
"Even though there is a lot of yelling from the clients, I love this job." Goenka said. "I have been fascinated with America since I was a little girl. Now I get paid to pretend I am American -- it's wonderful."
Except now he makes sure to check the FBI's most-wanted list every few weeks and avoids leaving the country. Just in case.
Looks like FBI goofed up. Now all crackers would be wary of any job offers from US and will definitely not travel to US. They can be safe in the *laws* of their own countries and mint money. Not so smart on the part of FBI after all.
.... its the *customers* who suck more. How long will you keep chasing random crackers?? If you can't secure your systems you deserve a Gorshkov and Ivanov. Duh!!! Companies getting into e-commerce without proper security!!! If the hackers don't extort millions from them, the customers and shareholders should sue them for those millions for ill-keeping confidential information.
Matrix's storyline which projects the world as a simulation is very similar to what Eastern philosophies say. Eastern religions like Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism treat the world as Mayajaal or web of deceit/temptation/unreal things. To realise one's true potential a person needs to only break mental barriers is also theorised by Eastern philosophies.
IMHO, both are correct. As an IT Security Admin (audits, policies, click-click GUI FW admin), i get paid well. But the work satisfaction (read self-actualization) is very low. Hence, I contribute to open source.
On the other hand, I have also participated in projects where the commercial products were too expensive.
What does Windows 2003 offer over Windows 2000? Does it offer more stability? Does it decouple the kernel/core from the applications like the GUI?
I have been concerned about using Windows 2xxx servers because of the tight integration. A change to the Java settings of the browser requires a restart. A change in DNS server or IP address of an interface, randomly, demands a reboot.
IMHO, Microsoft should work on making the OS easier to understand and administer for administrators. Point and click is only one way of making it easier. Unix/Linux scores over Windows because Administrators can see the insides and hence administer the systems more confidently. As an administrator, if I can't trust my OS, I wouldn't run critical apps on it.
All I want from a server OS is a stable filesystem, good I/O and mem-mgmt, clean ways to adminsiter apps, and good security. Not tonnes of attached paraphenila and parasitic apps bundled with the OS.
This brings us to the question, does he have an email id?? Maybe everyone just writes to the PM's office (maybe his personal assisstant's or some other bureaucrat's address or something) which in is turn screened and the important mails are given to the PM in hardcopy. The PM then dictates the replies to the secretary who then replies to people.
Not very efficient, I know, but then he is a politician!!!
http://www.vthc.org.au/campaigns/20011017_peace.ht ml
From google.
Also,
http://www.myworldvision.com.au/getinvolved/advoca cy/child_soldiers.asp
http://www.geocities.com/ansettcentral/polliesem.h tml
Take a look here
http://www.esatys.com/gen_info_awards.htm
have they announced the winners yet?? At the time of posting this I couldn't find the winner for the 2003 award!!!
Slashdot Mirror
How come technology changes in money printing like watermarks don't count??
So now I will have to wait for 15 minutes before the data-centre door opens?? ;-)
The finger mark is to prevent you from voting more than once.
The voting ID card is to ensure that you are a citizen and allowed to vote. Without the finger mark, you could still get someone else's voting card and try to vote again.
Ok!! This is an older story from March'2001.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010312/main4.ht m
How to tamper with voting machines!
Prabhjot Singh
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 11
Can electronic voting machines (EVMs) be tampered with?
"Yes", says Mr Amarinder Singh, president, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, supporting his assertion by giving a demonstration of how an EVM with a cleverly programmed chip installed in it can transfer votes polled by one candidate to another leaving no remnants of the original voting pattern.
"Convinced that these EVMs can be manipulated, we are going to make a presentation to the Chief Election Commissioner, Dr Manohar Singh Gill, in New Delhi next week and request him to revert to the original system of voting using ballot papers. If the commission does not listen to us, we will have no choice but to knock at the door of the judiciary to get EVMs out of the elections," asserts Mr Amarinder Singh.
Capt Amarinder Singh demonstrates how a "fudged electronic voting machine" works. -- A Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan
Mr Amarinder Singh carries a set of EVMs, including the control unit, which during elections remains with the presiding officer of a polling station, and gives a "demonstration of how the programmed chip transfers the votes of one candidate to another".
"We got suspicious about what we call 'sophisticated booth capturing' when we found that there was 129 per cent increase in the votebank of Akalis at Nawanshahr, 100 per cent at Sunam and now 65 per cent at Majitha. The ruling party did well wherever EVMs were used while at other places, we did well. This we did by analysing all elections in the state since 1997," says the PPCC chief, admitting that "my wife and Mr Jagmeet Singh Brar were elected to the Lok Sabha from constituencies where EVMs were used. But till that time, for the ruling Akali Dal, EVMs were something new and unique.
"But once they put their electronics experts on the job, they could immediately find a solution. Whatever the Election Commission says about EVMs is not true. The mother boards, after being removed from the EVMs, do not crash but work perfectly after being soldered back in the machine. Similarly, wave welding, which the Election Commission maintains is not available in India, is very much available at various places in the country," asserts the Punjab Congress chief.
"We put our hardware and software experts on the job. They not only came out with different programmed chips but also revealed how these EVMs had been condemned the world over. Many countries, including Germany, France and the UK, had gone back to the conventional ballot paper polling by discarding the EVMs," he said before giving a demonstration of how an EVM with a programmed chip installed in it "works wonders".
"A programmed chip will not cost much. It is both timed and programmed to convert the votes polled by one candidate to those of another. It is only the final position that will remain on the hardchip or all three memories, thus leaving no scope for anyone to find out the original pattern of voting," he says during the demonstration. "Seventeen votes are cast of which three go to candidate number 1, one each to candidates number two and three, 11 to candidate number 5 and one to candidate number 7. And after a while, when the votes are counted, the machine gives 13 votes to candidate number 1 and four to candidate number 2 and nothing to the rest.
"So each machine can be programmed to transfer, say, every third vote polled by the Congress to the Shiromani Akali Dal. In the Chamunda Devi area, which is a traditional Congress stronghold, our candidate lost during the recent Majitha Assembly byelection. This strengthens our conviction that EVMs were programmed.
"Let bygone be bygone. We do not want this 'sophisticated booth-capturing' to continue anymore. We do not want EVMs but want that in all future el
Anyone know what kind of software and OS these e-voting boxes use?
About 80 miles per charge. Three hours to completely recharge in a dryer socket, 10 minutes to recharge 80 percent in a high-current, 200-amp socket.
Its a common myth that in India workers need not be paid for salary plus benefits. The law requires that 12.5% of the salary is deposited in a provident fund. The employer must contribute another 12.5% to it. Medical Insurance, gratuity (retirement pension), leave travel allowance, paid vacations, and meal allowances are standard benefits here.
"What people tend to forget is that there are gatekeepers in the open-source community, too," he said. "It's not a free-for-all. On every one of the open-source projects, there are two or three people who are the gatekeepers. And you have to make a pretty good case, accurate and technically astute, to get them to allow changes. That's how it should be."
There are no gatekeepers. They just maintain a tree. You are free to build yoour own tree. Sheeshh!! When will these *analysts* get the details right?? Moron!!!!
I agree disclosure is a tricky situation. On the other side, would you like to keep running vulnerable services till the vendor patches them? What if in the meantime someone else finds the same vuln and exploits it? Or what if the the person/group who released the advisory *inadvertently* release it to the public or worsse, to a set of crackers?
IMHO, there has to be a mid-day between disclosure only to vendor and full public disclosure. Maybe bugs+exploits can be submitted to a mailing list with auto-approval set to two days?? And a CC to the vendor.
Notice how both vulnerabilities, from Cisco and Microsoft, were not released to the public first. Instead the public announcement comes after the vendors have the patches.
Exploits, anybody?
http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/ist/security/scty_i nfo/desktop/windows/NT4_default_shares_off.reg
http://www.lbl.gov/ICSD/Security/systems/windows.h tml
"Even though there is a lot of yelling from the clients, I love this job." Goenka said. "I have been fascinated with America since I was a little girl. Now I get paid to pretend I am American -- it's wonderful."
Does it get anymore sick than this??
Didn't you get the message?? MOVE out of spain!!
Except now he makes sure to check the FBI's most-wanted list every few weeks and avoids leaving the country. Just in case.
Looks like FBI goofed up. Now all crackers would be wary of any job offers from US and will definitely not travel to US. They can be safe in the *laws* of their own countries and mint money. Not so smart on the part of FBI after all.
.... its the *customers* who suck more. How long will you keep chasing random crackers?? If you can't secure your systems you deserve a Gorshkov and Ivanov. Duh!!! Companies getting into e-commerce without proper security!!! If the hackers don't extort millions from them, the customers and shareholders should sue them for those millions for ill-keeping confidential information.
Matrix's storyline which projects the world as a simulation is very similar to what Eastern philosophies say. Eastern religions like Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism treat the world as Mayajaal or web of deceit/temptation/unreal things. To realise one's true potential a person needs to only break mental barriers is also theorised by Eastern philosophies.
So I can still e-stalk someone since there is nothing commercial about it.
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IMHO, both are correct. As an IT Security Admin (audits, policies, click-click GUI FW admin), i get paid well. But the work satisfaction (read self-actualization) is very low. Hence, I contribute to open source.
On the other hand, I have also participated in projects where the commercial products were too expensive.
What does Windows 2003 offer over Windows 2000? Does it offer more stability? Does it decouple the kernel/core from the applications like the GUI?
I have been concerned about using Windows 2xxx servers because of the tight integration. A change to the Java settings of the browser requires a restart. A change in DNS server or IP address of an interface, randomly, demands a reboot.
IMHO, Microsoft should work on making the OS easier to understand and administer for administrators. Point and click is only one way of making it easier. Unix/Linux scores over Windows because Administrators can see the insides and hence administer the systems more confidently. As an administrator, if I can't trust my OS, I wouldn't run critical apps on it.
All I want from a server OS is a stable filesystem, good I/O and mem-mgmt, clean ways to adminsiter apps, and good security. Not tonnes of attached paraphenila and parasitic apps bundled with the OS.
May the source be your saviour.
This brings us to the question, does he have an email id?? Maybe everyone just writes to the PM's office (maybe his personal assisstant's or some other bureaucrat's address or something) which in is turn screened and the important mails are given to the PM in hardcopy. The PM then dictates the replies to the secretary who then replies to people.
Not very efficient, I know, but then he is a politician!!!
http://www.vthc.org.au/campaigns/20011017_peace.ht ml
From google.
Also,
http://www.myworldvision.com.au/getinvolved/advoca cy/child_soldiers.asp
http://www.geocities.com/ansettcentral/polliesem.h tml
Take a look here http://www.esatys.com/gen_info_awards.htm have they announced the winners yet?? At the time of posting this I couldn't find the winner for the 2003 award!!!
I think this compares to Handspring's Treo 180. Primarily, because both can use GPRS. Any other products in the same league?