I am more interested in checking that the Comelec computers will do the job correctly (that the PCOS machines will actually count our votes) than in ensuring that the PCOS machines can not be hacked.
The PCOS machines will be off-line during the voting period and will go online only to transmit the precinct ER at the end of the day, to the municipal BOCs, provincial BOCs, and the national Comelec server. So the PCOS machines do not even have to be made hack-proof. More important is to require the winning bidder to GPL opensource the Comelec counting program (to conform to the source-code review requirement of the RA-9369), so the the programmer community of the Philippines and the world can help improve the vote counting and canvassing programs. However, I do agree that the national Comelec server that will archive all the election returns from all precincts all over the country should be made hack-proof, although the all the precinct ERs from all over the country should be made readable (read-only) to the world, for the sake of transparency, so that anyone can do a count, and so that all counts will produce the same results. PManalastas *** --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Jerome Macaranas <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jerome Macaranas <[email protected]> > Subject: [plug] OT: 100M rewards for breaking the automated poll system > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 8:45 PM > http://www.gmanews.tv/story/157488/P100-M-reward-sought-for-automated-poll-system-hacking-challenge _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
