29Sep2009 (UTC +8) On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:59, joebert jacaba <[email protected]> wrote: > Can this be used as an excuse for a failure of election scenario? What if > someone brings this issue to the Supreme Court just before the election and > the exercise declared invalid because of this loophole?
If you mean that there will be a "failure of elections' because there was no source-code review per se, then the answer is: NO. I'm not a lawyer, but that's how I understood Atty. Rafanan as he answered questions by Manuel Alcuaz and Gus Lagman (?), in a MAP (Management Association of the Philippines) meeting last week. In there, I was invited to be their guest speaker on how source-code audit is done, how an evaluation and assurance project is done, how a standard like the Common Criteria (ISO/IEC 15408) is relevant and timely, and what are the technical and management challenges behind it --what it really means when you say a hardware & software product is TRUSTWORTHY. I gave them the same opinion I shared (though less formally) with Doc Mana in their CenPEG office last July 18. Smartmatic was there as well, plus other interested international organizations and representatives from multi-national companies. There were no press people however, as it was a closed-door meeting in the 25th floor of Ayala Tower 1 in Makati. I knew this issue was hot, but I didn't know they'd all be there because this issue is blazing hot. It was very stressful for me to in the middle of such *passionate* discussions and accusations between parties. Atty. Rafanan said they want to disabuse the term "failure of elections" because it's been used so much that many people are now confused by what it really means. Here's the lawyer-talk for "failure of elections": http://www.comelec.gov.ph/laws/omnibus_election_code/oec_art1.html And here's a related news article: FAILURE OF ELECTIONS IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE, SAYS COMELEC September 19, 2009 9:59 pm http://balita.ph/2009/09/19/failure-of-elections-is-practically-impossible-says-comelec/ Drexx Laggui -- CISA, CISSP, CFE Associate, ISO27001 LA, CCSI, CSA http://www.laggui.com ( Singapore / Manila / California ) Computer forensics; Penetration testing; QMS & ISMS developers; K-Transfer PGP fingerprint = 6E62 A089 E3EA 1B93 BFB4 8363 FFEC 3976 FF31 8A4E _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
