On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Danny Ching<[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm afraid however that cheating will simply be done locally by > sabotaging, destroying or simply invalidating the machines credibility > by destroying the seals of the voting machines before, during or after > the elections. Therefore forcing the local elections to be postponed > or use a manual system again. If done nationally, halata. But if done > locally, specially in isolated regions, they could simply blame the > MILF or Abu's. (are the bombings recently a dry run to condition our > minds to accept that bombings on election day are not totaly out of > the question) In a tightly contested race whether local or national. > This could be enough to win.
let the AFP burden this job... > I harken back to SysAdmin 101: Secure the server physically first! > Otherwise, all bets are off. Is the comelec putting up guidelines for > physical protection of the server? servers are only part of the equation.. as the security saying goes... your security system is only as strong as its weakest link.. think like a cheater and the same time a hacker.. they are looking for the weakest link and we must identify this.... > How do we protect > the integrity of the machines? for software.. digital signature.. for hardware putting a seal... but then they can produce their own identical seal for secret tampering... > I for one do not wish for all this technical planning and expertise go > to waste because our corrupt politicians will simply force the use of > manual systems because that is the system they know how to "hack". please join our chat session and we need your and other's valuable inputs for the success of clean election... fooler. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
