Election Commission of India throws “open challenge” to hack voting machines

Re:Election Commission of India throws “open challenge” to h... by sa1 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:28AM (#14097993)

Their past tactic used to be to arrest researchers who pointed out flaws in the machines. I'm not sure anything much has changed.

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Re:Election Commission of India throws “open challenge” to h... by baali on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:32AM (#14098020)

Reference of this: http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/researcher-arrested-ca... and https://www.wired.com/2010/08/researcher-arrested-in-india/

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Re:Election Commission of India throws “open challenge” to h... by prasadjoglekar on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:03AM (#14098325)

Both articles state that the researchers were arrested for stealing (or taking possession of) a voting machine. Quote from the Wired article: "Halderman says the researchers believe the person who gave them the voting machine had legal access to it and provided it in the interest of transparency and scientific study."

That's a little different than being arrested for finding bugs in the software or hardware. Prima-facie, it does seem like stealing government property without proper written authorization. Arrest still seems excessive, but the circumstances seem to be a bit more nuanced.

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Re:Election Commission of India throws “open challenge” to h... by pavanky on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:27AM (#14098598)

The guy who got arrested and I are second cousins. He is not a researcher, he is a businessman. He also has close ties with one of the regional political parties in India.

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Re:Election Commission of India throws “open challenge” to h... by ajeet_dhaliwal on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:31AM (#14098014)

Any source/links?

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