Let's schedule the chat session at a convenient time for most people in PLUG. Which day/time do you suggest?
//PManalastas --- On Tue, 7/14/09, fooler mail <[email protected]> wrote: > From: fooler mail <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [plug] Code Review & SysAdmin of Election 2010 Computers > To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" > <[email protected]> > Cc: "Marvin Villanueva" <[email protected]>, "Pablo Manalastas" > <[email protected]>, "Elsa Gines" <[email protected]>, "Felix Muga" > <[email protected]>, "Fidel dela Torre" <[email protected]>, "Edwin > Tuazon" <[email protected]>, "Evi Jimenez" <[email protected]>, "Bob Tuazon" > <[email protected]>, "Felix Muga" <[email protected]>, "Rosa Castillo" > <[email protected]>, "Rodellyn Mañalac" <[email protected]>, "Vicky > Avena" <[email protected]>, "Unicka Sta Ana" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 3:41 PM > 2009/7/13 Pablo Manalastas <[email protected]>: > > > > I volunteered as IT consultant for CenPEG, the Center > for People Empowerment in Governance. This is a NGO, and > it is engaged in a project to document and analyze the > computerized 2010 elections. CenPEG is not against > computerization. It is in favor of computerization, provided > that appropriate safeguards are put in place to minimize > possibilities of cheating. The CenPEG project has a > website: > > > > http://www.aes2010.net/ > > > > This website is under development, so please expect > new things to be added from time to time. > > > > CenPEG itself has a website: http://www.cenpeg.org/. > > > doc.. i would like to help for the future of our country... > i strongly > suggest to discuss this over a chat server where everybody > can listen > and interact.. there are lots of clarifications to asks but > doing this > in a mailing list will take more time... > > there are lots of issues to tackle... these are few issues > to start with... > > 1. we know that in manual election... cheating are done > during > transporting of ballots (switching) and manipulation of > canvas at the > higher level.. this can be done also in automated system > where i can > see they can switch code during the transport of machines > to precincts > and switch it back to a clean one upon surrending the > machines to > comelec... > > 2. private key must be protected by using passphrase... > even if the > private key was stolen by the cheaters.. they cannot create > a new ER > and sign those fake ERs as only the owner of the key knows > how to > unlock it... but how the public/private key pair is > going to create? > during the election time or before? on or before election > time have > pros and cons and need to tackle this one also... > > 3. sending of data thru 3G networks - there are places in > the > philippines where there are no 3G signals in there.. only > 2.5G signal > and below such as GSM, GPRS (114kbps) or EDGE (236kbps) .. > these are > slow bandwidth... you can do the math how big is the data > to be > transmitted over these slow networks.. 1000 voters per > machine times > the average size of TIFF image plus the votes, logs and > others.. > > 4. why still following the old fashion way of counting > where ERs bring > to municipal/provincial/congressional canvassers where > cheating and > manupilation are done there? why not ERs directly bring to > the main > canvassers in NCR as computers quickly count this and the > results are > just a few seconds away... ERs send to comelec, namfrel, > and to a > pubic server where others can do unofficial counting for > parallel > counting... > > there are lot more and i know there are solutions for the > above > issues... if you can suggest a chatting time and the name > of a server > where to login so that pluggers and IT group from CenPEG > can interact > with each other to tackle these issues very well... if > there is a web > based chat client to use.. much better so that others on > mobile can > join also... > > fooler. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
