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New Delhi: Nineteen-year-old software engineer Nisarga Adhikary, known for identifying security lapses in the CBSE’s online marking system, says that he wrote to the Election Commission and CERT-in, India’s Computer Emergency Response Team in July – spotlighting negligence and loopholes in the security apparatus of the ECI website, apps, and overall digital machinery. 

“They seemed like very rookie mistakes, not oversights,” he told The Wire. His findings assume significance against the backdrop of serious questions on the central control of the ECI’s software used to conduct the special intensive revision of rolls.

However, CERT-in as well as the ECI “ghosted him,” Adhikary said, until a reporter from the Hindustan Times reached out to the agencies, following which he received a........

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