On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Pablo Manalastas <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 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. http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/501251/experts_see_new_diebold_flaw_they_call_it_worst_security/ > > > 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. i doubt that this will happen, what the comelec can do is require the winning bidder to ask a couple of well known security firms to review the software and just have an NDA with them. > > > 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 >
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