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12 Feb, 7 tweets, 6 min read
ECI @ECISVEEP, why a Laptop computer/Desktop PC is required for VVPAT commissioning?

Also, there is an application software!

If EVM-VVPAT is not connected to any external device what is this laptop for?

Please care to explain @SpokespersonECI. This is from BEL VVPAT manual.
This is from BEL VVPAT user manual available at itestweb.in/pdy57/sites/de….

Now please don’t take the link down. It is archived. :) @ECISVEEP @SpokespersonECI
And this is what your own PPT on EVM security states.

That it is a stand-alone machine with one time programmable chip.

Then why VVPATs are connected to Jigs/laptops?

Where do you load symbols?

Please come clean for nation's sake @ECISVEEP.

eci.gov.in/files/file/922…
This is from eProcurement site of BEL. For PCB, Symbol Loading unit, PCB, VSDU test Jig, PCB, CU, BU etc.

Are these related to elections @ECISVEEP?
Who supplied it?

In your presentation you say it is manufactured by BEL/ECILs. Then why tender for PCBs?
srm.bel.co.in/ListofBids/upl…
ECI @ECISVEEP, I have been part of the election process and was proud of it. But I don't understand your obstinate silence. Legitimacy once lost will be difficult to regain. Acknowledge vulnerabilities. Invite opinions. Be transparent. Improve. Please.

Another document tomorrow.
Come on @ECISVEEP. Why you got the BEL bid document link taken down. That is such a pathetic response no?

But please don't think with such antics you can run away from answering questions. @SpokespersonECI
Btw, as I wrote, the link was already archived before sharing here @ECISVEEP. May want to get the archived link deleted as well.
web.archive.org/web/2021021212…

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13 Feb
ECI @ECISVEEP, is it true that EVM-VVPAT is connected to an external device, SLU, through a 9 pin serial cable?

And SLU is connected to a laptop through a serial cable?

Then what about EVM-VVPAT are stand alone machines not connected to external devices claim @SpokespersonECI? Image
This is from a BEL technical document for M3 VVPAT available at n24parganas.in/LokSabhaElecti…

Now please don’t get this also taken down @ECISVEEP. Why trouble the wayback machine? :) Image
ECI @ECISVEEP can you share what is this symbol loading software on the laptop that needs to be opened to connect the Laptop, SLU/VVPAT?

Why publicly available EVM-VVPAT manuals on your site does not talk about any of this? @SpokespersonECI Image
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6 Feb
Yesterday there was massive protest in Vizag over the proposed privatisation of city's iconic Vizag steel plant.

VSP made good profits every year. Then this Govt came. And it started incurring massive losses.

It was being prepped for this fire sale. #VisakhaUkkuAndhrulaHakku
"We have been left with no option but to fight it out till the Centre withdraws the proposal,” D Adinarayana, a trade union leader, said.
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Hopefully the city known for its iconic steel plant will fight it out and win this battle. #VisakhaUkkuAndhrulaHakku
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4 Feb
ECI @ECISVEEP & @SpokespersonECI thinks that not responding to the concerns raised is the best way to deal with EVM-VVPAT vulnerabilities.

But please take a look at this video. It has 5 mn+ views. Questions are reaching far and wide.

And your silence too
Let me tell you this @ECISVEEP. I will not be writing anymore letters seeking reply to the questions raised. Or be going to the court.

I will be taking these questions to public at large to tell my half of the story. Your silence will tell the other half.
Hahaha.. So @ECISVEEP, @SpokespersonECI did something very interesting in response to this tweet in the morning.

Sir, address the questions raised instead of going on a tangential.

Is the EVM-VVPAT connected to an external device or not?

A very simple question!!?
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3 Feb
“You see a case of domestic violence.

Now if you too are violent at home, you’ll say it is domestic, hence private.

But if you’re confident of own conduct, you’ll say it is violence & hence public.”

My UPSC interview answer in 2011 on whether India should comment on Sri Lanka.
Then they asked but isn’t it our principle to not interfere in the internal matters of other countries?

I replied that principle can come from a position of weakness or a position of strength.

First one is from position of weakness while the second from position of strength.
Then they asked me if we comment on SL, will it not allow others to comment on us?

I answered that as a country we have grown to a stage where if we do human rights violation, our Govt should be more worried about our own institutions & organizations than any external comments.
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2 Feb
Personal update:

After Galwan Valley incident, out of shame at lack of in-depth understanding of China, its past & designs, I started learning Mandarin Chinese.

Finished all freely/cheaply available courses in Coursera & Udemy in the last 6 months. At around HSK level 5 now.
Have been studying it like a small kid. Waking up at 5:30 every day, spending 5-6 hours a day writing and reading, finishing one notebook after the other, using different colors for hanzi, pinyin and English.
One aspect of the learning was to become able to read and understand economic, military and diplomatic articles in mandarin. Finding good sources itself took sometime. But totally worth it.
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1 Feb
Indiscriminate sale of PSUs is not just about sale of national assets, but also an over-smart way to side-step reservation and social justice.
Not making a blanket case for or against privatisation. But the clandestine way in which social justice component of public recruitment is taken away, lateral entries, single vacancy advt & indiscriminate sale of PSUs is something that needs to be out in the open & discussed.
A simple question to ask the Govt in parliament would be

1. Recruitment breakup of the PSUs over the last 10-20 years and current vacancy breakup.

2. Whether the Govt can promise that a similar pattern in recruitment is going to be kept after privatisation of the said PSUs.
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