EVM had remote control software, the company accepted
EVM had remote control software, the company accepted
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You have read and heard many times the news of EVM hacking in India. After losing the election several times, the opposition has accused that EVM has been hacked. However, the Election Commission has clearly said that EVM is hack proof. But can the voting machine be hacked?

American voting machine maker Election Systems and Software (ES & S) have admitted that remote voting machines were sold to them by remote tools. This company is at the top in terms of making a voting machine. Vendor ES & S voting system in a letter sent to American Senator Ron Walden said that handling machines were sold to the local government in 2000-2006. According to the letter sent by the company to the senator, there was remote access software in the voting machine for 6 years. There is a copy of this letter near the motherboard portal and now the serious questions related to the security of the voting machine are being raised. 

According to ES & S, between 2000 and 2006, some customers were given remote connection software such as pcAnywhere. Between 2000 and 2006, the company was the No. 1 company making the voting machine in the US. According to the report, in 2006 about 60 per cent ballot cast was made from ES & S systems.

This software was not in the voting machine, but in the management system terminal which is used to manage the voting machine. This remote software used by PCAnywhere was discontinued in 2007 when the American Election Assistance Commission started implementing the new guidelines for the Election Management Terminal.

The company says that PCAnywhere does not have any connection with hacking software. But cybersecurity journalist and author Kim Zetter, whose handwritten letter is said to have said, "PCAnywhere is not bulletproof in terms of security. In 2012, hackers had disclosed that they stole the PCAnywhere source code in 2006. After this, Symantec, a PCAnywhere software maker, asked customers to remove the old version of PCAnywhere software."

ES & S said in a statement given to The World, "Between 2000 and 2006, the company had given pcAnywhere Remote Connection software to some customers for technical support, but this software was not for any voting machine. After the EAC guideline, the company stopped giving pcAnywhere in 2007 and no ES & S customer used it."

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