Harri Hursti

Harri Hursti

Harri Hursti is a computer programmer and former CEO of F-Secure PLC, a software company based in Helsinki, Finland. [ [http://www.brennancenter.org/dynamic/subpages/download_file_39281.pdf Brennan Center on Harri Hursti] ] He was also Chairman of the Board and co-founder of ROMmon [ [http://cs.tcnj.edu/newsAndEvents.php?type=e College of New Jersey Computer Science Department, 2007-03-10, Anatomy of a Voting System Hack] ] where he supervised in the development of the world's smallest 2 gigabit traffic analysis product.

Hursti is well known for participating in the Black Box Voting [ [http://www.blackboxvoting.org Link to Black Box Voting studies with Hursti] ] hack studies, along with Dr. Herbert Thompson. The memory card hack demonstrated in Leon County is popularly known as "the Hursti Hack". This hack was part of a series of four voting machine hacking tests organized by the nonprofit election watchdog group Black Box Voting in collaboration with the producers of HBO documentary, Hacking Democracy. The studies proved serious security flaws in the voting systems of Diebold Election Systems.

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External links

* [http://www.f-secure.com/ F-Secure Official website]


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