[PLUG] [OT] EVM Security

[Mithun Shitole]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Mayuresh <mayuresh at acm.org> wrote:

> This is OT though could be of concern.
>
> A video showing "Indian" EVM's vulnerabilities:
> http://indiaevm.org/
>
> An article on this:
> http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7667
>
> While the points raised in the video may be theoretically valid and
> improvements on these lines may be possible, theoretically no system could
> be "fully secure" anyway. One has to trust in some system anyway.
>
> Besides, not clear why they call them as "India's EVM's" specifically.
> These or other vulnerabilities could be present anywhere in the world.
> Academics should perhaps keep it to general topic of EVM security and
> measures to overcome them rather than targeting a particular country's
> election system.
>
> Anyway, felt, it could be a good research and prototype building topic for
> students to take up as college project.
>
> Mayuresh.
>
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>From the research point of view, I think its very good.

But if EVMs are vulnerable, that doesn't make plain old ballot system
secure.

There were lots of incidents of manipulating ballots also.

If you has access to hardware, anything can be compromised.

Regards,
-- 
Mithun
Pune.