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Indian researcher shows faults in EVMs, gets
arrested
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 03:06:33 PM,
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Bangalore:
Hari Prasad, the Managing Director of Netindia, an Indian research
and development firm, on his refusal to disclose an anonymous source
who provided an electronic voting machine to a team of security
researchers was arrested.
He and other researchers have long questioned the security of
India's paperless electronic voting machines. Despite repeated
reports of election irregularities and concerns about fraud, the
Election Commission of India insists that the machines are
tamper-proof.
As per the reports Prasad was questioned Saturday morning at his
home in Hyderabad by authorities who wanted to know the identity of
the source who gave the voting machine to the research team. Prasad
was ultimately arrested and taken to Mumbai, though reportedly
hadn't been charged with a crime.
In 2009, the commission publicly challenged Prasad to show that
India's voting machines could be compromised, but refused to give
him access to the machines to perform a review.
Earlier this year, an anonymous source provided an Indian voting
machine to a research team led by Prasad, The team exposed security
flaws that could allow an attacker to change election results and
compromise ballot secrecy. They published a paper detailing their
findings.
The Election Commission of India should have given researchers
access to the voting machines in the first place. Prasad is a
respected researcher who helped to discover a critical flaw in
India's voting system.
He and his fellow researchers would never have been able to document
the weaknesses in India's voting machines without the help of their
anonymous source.
This is precisely why anonymity is important: it allows people to
make important contributions to the public dialogue without fear of
retribution.
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