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Swiss govt will pay you Rs 1 crore if you hack its electronic vote system

Updated : February 08, 2019 11:56 AM IST

The government will pay 150,000 Swiss francs (about Rs 1.07 crore) to any intrepid soul who manages to manipulate the vote count without being detected.

The decision came after the federal chancellery announced a dummy election from February 25 to March 24. The authorities asked individuals interested in taking up the challenge to sign up at https://onlinevote-pit.ch.

Swiss govt will pay you Rs 1 crore if you hack its electronic vote system

The Swiss government wants you to hack its electronic vote system.

Yes, really.

The government will pay 150,000 Swiss francs (about Rs 1.07 crore) to any intrepid soul who manages to manipulate the vote count without being detected.

The Swiss authorities hope that the exercise will help them improve the security of the new generation electronic voting system.

The development in Switzerland comes at a time when questions have been raised in India about the safety of electronic voting machines (EVM).

The Election Commission in India had also thrown open EVM hackathon challenge to prove that the machines are incorruptible. But no political party showed interest.

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