Harri Harras Hursti, a Finnish computer programmer, was born on July 10, 1968, in Helsinki, Finland. He is a co-founder of ROMmon, a company he helped lead, and played a crucial role in the development of the world's smallest 2 gigabit traffic analysis product, which was later acquired by F-Secure Corporation.
Hursti gained international recognition for his participation in the Black Box Voting hack studies alongside Dr. Herbert "Hugh" Thompson. The memory card hack, commonly referred to as "the Hursti Hack," took place in Leon County and was part of a series of four voting machine hacking tests conducted by the nonprofit election watchdog group Black Box Voting in collaboration with the producers of the HBO documentary, Hacking Democracy. These studies revealed serious security flaws in the voting systems of Diebold Election Systems.
In 2009, Hursti relocated to the United States, marking a significant shift in his personal and professional life.
