हरि कृष्ण प्रसाद वेमुरु ने भारत में इस्तेमाल की जाने वाली ईवीएम पर रिसर्च करके यह सिद्ध किया था कि इन मशीनों में हेराफेरी करके चुनाव परिणामों को किसी एक पक्ष में किया जा सकता है। जिसके चलते प्रसाद को एक महीने जेल की सज़ा भुगतनी पड़ी थी। उन्ही हरि कृष्ण प्रसाद वेमुरु को उनकी रिसर्च के लिए सान फ्रांसिस्को की इलेक्ट्रानिक फ्रांटियर फाउंडेशन ने साल 2010 में अमेरिका का प्रतिष्ठित 'पायनियर अवार्ड' दिया था। हरि कृष्ण प्रसाद 'पायनियर अवार्ड' पाने वाले पहले भारतीय थे।
सान फ्रांस्सिको इलेक्ट्रानिक फ्रांटियर फाउंडेशन (ईएफएफ) ने अपने बयान में कहा, हरि कृष्ण प्रसाद सिक्योरिटी रिसर्चर थे जिन्होंने भारत में इस्तेमाल होने वाली कागज रहित इलेक्ट्रानिक वोटिंग मशीन (ईवीएम) में गड़बड़ी को उजागर किया था। जिसके चलते उन्हें एक साल की सज़ा भुगतनी पड़ी।
प्रसाद ने ईवीएम में छेड़छाड़ की समीक्षा करते हुए चुनाव अधिकारियों को समझाया। लेकिन चुनाव अधिकारियों का कहना था कि, सरकार द्वारा बनाई गई ईवीएम मशीने परफेक्ट हैं और इनमें हेराफेरी नही की जा सकती। सरकार के इस आदेश को लोगों ने आंख बंद करके स्वीकार कर लिया। वहीं पसाद ने इन्हें परफेक्ट मानने से इंकार दिया। हरि कृष्ण प्रसाद और उनकी अंतरारष्ट्रीय टीम ने भारत में चुनाव नतीजों के बाद इन मशीनों में बड़े पैमाने पर खामियां ढुंढ़ निकालीं।
वहीं हरि कृष्ण प्रसाद वेमुरु की इस उपलब्धि पर ईएफएफ की ओर से जारी बयान में कहा गया था कि , प्रसाद अपने देश को एक पारदर्शी और प्रमाणित मतदान प्रणाली बनाने में मदद करें।
Courtesy: National Dastak
हरि कृष्ण प्रसाद वेमुरु केस का पुरा अपडेट देखीये. अंग्रेजी मे
Researcher Hari Prasad is he a thief or real hero of India who opened the eyes of India? India's EVMs are Vulnerable to Fraud.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Hari Prasad and his team have proved that Indian Voting machines are not safe and trustworthy, they can be tampered and bogus, and fraud voting is possible using Indian EVM.
For doing this activity and for proving his point,
Now Hari Prasad is facing theft accusations and he was arrested recently for doing theft of electronic voting machine.
Hari Prasad was arrested from Hyderabad on in connection with the theft of an EVM from Mumbai the arrest was made to question Hari into naming the ‘anonymous’ source that he claims was responsible for supplying that EVM to the researchers.
The researchers got an EVM from one of the EC's warehouses and were able to hack it and demonstrate several ways of tampering with it, including the use of radio-aware chips that would enable a Bluetooth-based cell phone outside a booth to manipulate the machines.
The vaunted process of the EC was, however, not even aware of the missing machine for several months!
If was only by looking at the serial number on a videotape of the hacked machine that the EC identified which warehouse that EVM came from.
This puts in doubt the physical security of the devices.
If this defects shown by Hari and his team are not removed then what is the use of voting in next election when we know that using cell phone one can change our vote.
Did you notice media is silent on this topic?Political parties are silent on this topic?Is this not the national issue?
Who is Hari Prasad? Who are his friends?
The name of the arrested researcher is Hari Krishna Prasad Murli Mohan Waimuru.
He organised the study, is managing director of Net India, (P) Ltd.,
A Hyderabad-based research and development firm.
He is technical coordinator of VeTA (Citizens for Verifiability, Transparency and Accountability in Elections)
In 2009, the Election Commission of India publicly challenged Prasad to demonstrate that EVMs could be tampered with, only to withhold access to the EVMs at the last minute.
Dr. J. Alex Halderman is a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan.
A noted expert on electronic voting security, Professor Halderman demonstrated the first voting machine virus and helped lead California's "top-to-bottom" electronic voting review. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Rop Gonggrijp is a technology activist from Holland who was instrumental in having EVMs banned in the Netherlands. In 1993, Gonggrijp cofounded XS4ALL, the first ISP in the Netherlands to offer Internet service to the general public.
The Election Commission of India has acted as the spokesman of the EVM manufacturers. The ECI has claimed on several occasions that EVMs are 'foolproof', ‘perfect’.
How all this started?
Hari and fellow-researchers put together a proof-of-concept, wherein they demonstrated a hack on some other hardware. The Election Commission of India pointed that this was not on one of the Indian EVMs.
It is reported that The Election Commission (EC) - invited Mr. Hari Prasad several times but never granted him access to EVM.
After this point, researchers requested that the EC provide them with an actual EVM, it appears the EC refused or insisted that they tamper with the EVM without actually touching them, a feat of magic which, alas, software developers are unable to pull off.
The researchers had used a genuine EVM in their ‘vulnerability demonstration' on April 28 and the Election Commission of India had then rejected the claim outright.
After video footage of the demonstration showed the serial number of the EVM, authorities found that one of the EVMs in Mumbai collectorate was ‘stolen' and a case registered in MRA Marg station on May 13.
When someone is intelligent and knows that he can do it what he is saying for the benefit of India and Indian citizens what he should do when the government is not ready to accept the truth and facts?Thus I think they managed to get the real EVM and demonstrated that Indian EVM is not fool proof and is very easy to hack Indian EVMs in few minutes.
Now the same thing happened in America, what American government did?
Dr Alex Halderman who worked with Hari Prasad in hacking the Indian EVM has also hacked an EVM used in the US elections and he was employed by State of California Secretary of State to expose the vulnerabilities of the EVMs used in California.
This is the difference between American democracy and Indian Democracy.
And today in India Hari Prasad has been branded as a thief for showing us the reality of EVM.
He has done the job and duty of government.
In America, Dr. Alex haalderman is a hero and here we are making Hari Prasad a thief.
This is not even a national issue in India.
Why Government is doing this?
To create fear in Public mind that if you try to go against government see what will happen.
The British rulers in India behaved the same way with Netaji Bose and Bhagat Singh.
Don’t you think Hari Prasad and his team should be awarded Bharat Ratna?
India deserves a transparent election process, which these machines simply cannot deliver."
No machine is full proof
yes I agree,
but it is the duty of election commission of India as well as government to see, check, verify and see that Indian voting machines are full proof and if someone points out the defects of that system, the defects should be removed from those machines.
Act of arresting a person is a way to show the power and silence him forever
Until now I always believed in the Election commission of India that EVM is safe.
August 2010 –
Chief Election Commissioner Navin B Chawla said that Describing electronic voting machines being used for polls as 'perfect,' he said there was no need for any 'technological improvement' to be made on them. "Till today, no individual could prove that the EVMs used by the EC can be tampered with," he said.
But Now I do not believe in those machines and feel that in last elections did they count my vote honestly or your vote honestly.
Did we get cheated because of faulty machines?
Thank you, Hari Prasad and full team for opening our eyes and showing us that it is easy to hack Indian Electronic voting machines.
Support Hari Prasad
Spread News about his great courage and honesty
Remember he has not sold the ideas to the corrupt politicians but he honestly without fear came into open and showed us the truth about Indian Voting machines or EVMs
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 –
Pune-based Mukund Lagoo, a civil engineer and a human rights activist was arrested by the Pune police in connection with an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) theft case
After two days of questioning
According to investigations, Lagoo had contacted Hari Prasad and met him before the theft of the EVM.
He has been accused of procuring the machine and carrying it to Hyderabad where he handed it over to main arrested accused Hari Prasad, police said.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Hari Krishna Prasad Wins award from America and India punished him for honesty.
E-voting researcher Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru has won the prestigious 2010 Pioneer Awards conferred by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco.
The award ceremony was held on November 8, at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco.
EFF's Pioneer Awards recognise leaders who are extending freedom and innovation on the electronic frontier.
Past honorees include World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, security expert Bruce Schneier, and the Mozilla Foundation and its chairman Mitchell Baker
Watch video - India's EVMs are Vulnerable to Fraud
2nd video Full video
This video shows the dishonest display attack as a single take, without any editing or splicing. The entire demonstration takes about ten minutes
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