Why Telecomblogs should be concerned about India’s EVM vulnerability? This video came as a shocking revelation to me, that it’s really easy to make fraud in India’s trusted Democratic Election Process. And more shocking is the fact that, even brief access to machine can alter the result of entire election process. That’s the reason I decided to share this recently released video with readers.
This vulnerability has been demonstrated in a seven month long collaborative research work, carried out by University of Michigan Computer Scientist. Contrary to claims by Indian election authorities, these paperless electronic voting systems suffer from significant vulnerabilities.
According to report released:-
In the video above, we demonstrate two kinds of attacks against a real Indian EVM. One attack involves replacing a small part of the machine with a look-alike component that can be silently instructed to steal a percentage of the votes in favour of a chosen candidate. These instructions can be sent wirelessly from a mobile phone. Another attack uses a pocket-sized device to change the votes stored in the EVM between the election and the public counting session, which in India can be weeks later.
These attacks are neither complicated nor difficult to perform, but they would be hard to detect or defend against. The best way to prevent them is to count votes using paper ballots that voters can see.
More information can be found at IndiaEvm.
( To View the Video, please click on Title of this post ‘India’s Electronic Voting…’ )
