"Anything can be hacked," Elon Musk Claims, to which an Ex-Union Minister Responds

One day following a heated discussion over the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar compared non-hackable gadgets like an electronic toaster and calculator on Monday. Yes, you read it correctly.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar provided an answer, stating that because EVM is a relatively restricted intelligence device, it does not lend itself to hacking. "It only counts the vote and stores the count," he stated.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar vs. Musk

The former minister said, "This is a huge sweeping generalization statement that implies no one can build secure digital hardware," in response to Elon Musk's remark yesterday. False. Elon Musk's opinion can be relevant to the US and other regions, where ordinary computing platforms are used to construct Internet-connected voting devices. However, Indian EVMs are made to order, safe, and disconnected from all networks and media; they lack Bluetooth, WiFi, and the Internet. i.e., there's no opening. controllers that are factory-programmed and cannot be reprogrammed. It is possible to design and construct electronic voting devices precisely as India has. Elon, we would be pleased to do a lesson."

According to the former Union Minister, "anything is possible," at least in principle. "I can decrypt any level of encryption using quantum compute." I can hack any digital hardware or system, even the flying controls of a glass cockpit plane, if I had lab-level technology and an abundance of resources. However, that's a different kind of discussion than how safe and dependable EVMs are.