government | Helter Skelter Magazine https://helterskelter.in/label/government/ Fresh Voices and New Writing From and About India Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:47:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 Village Vignettes: An Officer’s Apathy https://helterskelter.in/2012/01/village-vignettes-an-officers-apathy/ https://helterskelter.in/2012/01/village-vignettes-an-officers-apathy/#respond Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:47:26 +0000 http://helterskelter.in/?p=4911 He sat in a lazy slump in his rotating chair, complete with the mandatory towel that graces every government officer’s throne.

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]]> https://helterskelter.in/2011/09/playing-a-losing-game/feed/ 0 Researcher Arrested for Disclosing Problems with Electronic Voting Machines https://helterskelter.in/2010/08/researcher-arrested-for-disclosing-problems-with-electronic-voting-machines/ https://helterskelter.in/2010/08/researcher-arrested-for-disclosing-problems-with-electronic-voting-machines/#respond Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:20:57 +0000 http://helterskelter.in/?p=1055 Wired.com reports— “A security researcher in India has been arrested after he refused to provide authorities with the name of a person who supplied him with an electronic voting machine that was used to discover vulnerabilities in the system. The researcher had used the machine to demonstrate how someone could hack voting systems to easily…

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