For the past few months, since the consortium of Smartmatic-TIM won the Philippines election automation project, doubts and fears about the system as well as the machines have been raised and discussed everywhere. While many already concluded that the machines are vulnerable to hacking and vote modifications, Smartmatic-TIM in defense have continuously denied such allegations and shouted to the whole world saying their system and machines are not prone to hacking.
So the unanswered question still lingers…is it really hackable?
The PROBLEM…
In the world of cyber security, it is presumed that nothing is impossible and everything is hackable. The only question is, WHEN? A system could be hacked tomorrow, next week, next month or next year, all these depends on the security measures implemented and the knowledge or the stupidity of those responsible in the field of cyber security.
Smartmatic-TIM has continuously failed to demonstrate the level of security their system has or the level of security they are planning to implement to prevent possible election fraud and/or election failure. They however successfully ignited the wrath of malicious hackers (http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20090820hed5.html ) and crackers to attack the election automation system by irresponsibly screaming to the whole world claiming their system is unhackable and even offering a 10M PHP reward to those who can successfully hack the system. The thing is, there are hackers who hack not for money, but for fame and personal satisfaction, but definitely there are those who do it for money, and 10M PHP is more than enough to give a free invite to these people.
The ignorance of Smartmatic-TIM in terms of information security is obviously bottomless otherwise they wouldn’t have done that. Almost all those who dared hackers and irresponsibly advertised to the whole world that their system is secure have been hacked and humiliated.
As a Filipino, this is scaring me, not because I am a Smartmatic-TIM sympathizer but because this would mean a failure to the 2010 national election.
The QUESTIONS…
Although it is very valid to raise our doubts and fears on the security of these machines, I don’t think we are asking the right questions. A lot of experts have given their point of views and the Government has been talking about conducting a source code review (which is good) but all of them did not satisfy my own doubts and fears.
As far as I know, this is how data is going to be sent to the different levels (I could be wrong):
1st: How will you secure the physical level access of the machines?
2nd: How will you secure the logical level access of the machines?
3rd: How will you protect the votes stored inside the machines?
4th: How will you secure the votes sent from the machines to the different levels (municipal, provincial, national, etc) during transmission to prevent information sniffing and hijacking?
5th: How will you secure the data when it arrives at the municipal level, provincial level, national level, etc?
6th: How will you make sure that the integrity of the data sent or received was not compromised and that the person who sent the data and the person who opened and received the data are the persons authorized to process the data?
7th: If in case the data is hijacked, how will you make sure that data will be unusable to the person who hijacked the data.
8th: If the data has been compromised, how long will it take for the hacker to read and modify the data?
9th: If the data has been successfully modified, how will you prevent the hacker from uploading the data to all levels and make it look it was sent by an authorized person?
10th: On the municipal level, how will you ensure that the data sent to the provincial level, national level, etc. are authentic and came from the authorized person in the municipal level?
11th: How will you prevent a massive Denial of Service of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks from happening?
12th: How will you ensure the integrity of the data sent and received as well as the person who sent and received the data?
These are just some of the valid questions that Smartmatic-TIM so far failed to address and demonstrate.
The INVISIBLE THREAT
There is an ongoing war right now, it’s called Cyber War. Unlike the conventional type of war, cyber warfare is invisible, and you can be attacked by anyone from anywhere and you wouldn’t even know where the source of the attacks came from. There are also cyber mercenaries, those who get paid by successfully attacking a target, and no doubt these mercenaries would be more than happy to accommodate our corrupt politicians. How are you going to arrest or preempt an invisible threat or attacks? How are you going to pinpoint the location and source of these possible attacks?
A million dollar question that can only be answered by those who truly understand these invisible threats, as well as the invisible threat catalysts, not by those who pretend to be experts in cyber security and not by those who read a lot about cyber security but haven’t really done it.
The Filipino people deserves more, let us not put our trust to these pretenders, let us not put our future to these incompetent people, because protecting our votes this coming 2010 elections is protecting the future of our children and our children’s children.
So, going back to the first question…IS IT HACKABLE?
As an information security enthusiast and practitioner, my answer would be…WHO KNOWS? But I can surely say that Smartmatic-TIM guys are not that good and knowledgeable when it comes to information security and cyber attacks, they don’t understand how hackers think and they’ve got no freaking idea how they work. This makes it very scary. Unlike the saying ¨What you don’t know won’t hurt you¨, in cyber security, what you don’t know will definitely hurt you…BIG TIME!!!
Guest Writer: “ATR” focuses on information security audit, in all aspects — with expertise in ethical hacking and enterprise security risk assessment. “ATR” also provides expert opinion and recommendations to clients on how to effectively protect their system.
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Any computer system can be hacked. Some good computer wizards
with the brain of a Bill Gates can hack any computer program. These
people are mostly young. Born in the Information Technology generation. They consider the computer as their toy.
Bill Gates is more known for his business acumen and not for computer hacking.
Just a metaphor, dummy!
Smartmatic-TIM’s non-disclosure of the details of its security system makes everyone else nervous simply because people lose a sense of control over how their vote gets to be securely processed. This gives so-called “experts” the chance to openly speculate on the many ways one can hack or crack the system. Well, the news is, no, especially, man-made system is infallible, but, a good and advanced security system would take a while and resources for hackers to catch-up. Good security systems are constantly updated–they are moving targets.
Having this foreign hi-tech companies in charge of this may prove even beneficial, since, they are less likely to favor any particular political candidate. They could care less who gets elected in a country not their own. I don’t think any particular candidate could match the amount of money such company could earn by remaining credible. It is to their best interest to remain honest and impartial. There are other countries or potential clients our there who’s got more $$$ than all of us put together.
The old manual voting system has time and again already been proven to be “hackable.” There’s no other way for us than to move forward. It is the old “cheats” who would not benefit from this new system, since it is harder for them to crack because their old tricks will not work on a more advanced hi-tech system.
There is even this dumb suggestion that ‘source code’ be disclosed to the public. Would disclosing your encryption algorithm or formula to the public make you less vulnerable or more vulnerable? Think about it.
If people want to cheat in elections. They will find ways
to cheat. Same as a thief. You may put the best security
system in your house. But, a thief will find ways to go
around it.
There is no such thing as a foolproof system. Look at the
Billion dollar thieves at Wall street. They stole the investor’s money and the U.S. government’s money blind.
These people are higly educated, supposedly upright businessmen.
no such thing as absolute security…but there are ways to bring down the risk to the lowest possible level if not eliminate it…
Two of these measures are “Stop telling the whole world you are secure, and do not challenge hackers”
ATR, you have such arrogance of a computer security god. Are you telling me that you have the talent to crack into a 2 minute window of transmission of a system that have better encryption than that of a bank ATM? Could it be that Smartmatic’s silence or vagueness in its security protocols/strategies is in itself part of their security strategy?
hahaha
oh yeah..and maybe its alo part of their strategy to dare anyone to hack their system and offer a 10M php reward…Im sorry but I must have missed this great strategy in my field. Maybe I’ll tell my clients to do the same…tsk tsk
Trust is illusive in the Philippines
where the corrupt lead
and the stars pose
and your neighbor steals
and justice is purchased with a bribe.
Joe
So at the bottom of all this hackability issue, is the Guest Writer promoting their own security system to be used in the Automated Election System?
No, I am not promoting any security system and I am not affiliated in a company that sells security system.
I am only telling the Truth. To awaken Filipinos to be vigilant
always. Because these people are streching their money and
brains out in order to cheat…
I find it easy to conclude that ATR is a neophyte (neophyte meaning not enough experience where ATR got paid real money for working on info-security projects).
Evidence: he is pushing out neophyte sentences, like this oh-so-radical paragraph about:
The INVISIBLE THREAT
There is an ongoing war right now, it’s called Cyber War. Unlike the conventional type of war, cyber warfare is invisible, and you can be attacked by anyone from anywhere and you wouldn’t even know where the source of the attacks came from.
Also this one:
So, going back to the first question…IS IT HACKABLE?
As an information security enthusiast and practitioner, my answer would be…WHO KNOWS?
Googley-inspired can find enough articles on the web with a lot more technical details than ATR’s blogcomment.
[ My personal opinion...]
to “Guest Writer”: google-search for Manalastas’ blogcomment entries about COMELEC. Also click on this link:
http://verafiles.org/index.php/focus/309-comelec-answers-computer-experts-fears-of-automated-cheating
UP n grad
Or Maybe Im not just a good writer…some people are good at writing, some are good at talking and some are good at doing it.
You are definitely good at writing…and good at guessing too?
yeah its hackable, but it will take for a long time before they can hack it.”A system could be hacked tomorrow, next week, next month or next year, all these depends on the security measures implemented and the knowledge or the stupidity of those responsible in the field of cyber security.” which means, it does not stated the time travel from 1 to 23.9 hours. And as a filipino, do you want your vote to be hacked? if that so, you are saying that your dignity can be hacked also?
I may be wrong but I have yet to read something positive about the automated elections from bloggers of Filipino Voices. Could it be that this blog is tilted towards an anti-automation stance? Just curious. You have featured Dr. Manalastas’ rantings, CVJ’s twisted take and now this. Come on where is your sense of fair and balanced journalism? What’s the motivation here?
Tangama, my blog entry was not ‘anti-automation’. I just recommended 100% manual verification on election night to detect (and hopefully foil) any automated dagdag-bawas. It is entirely possible and even likely that attempts to cheat will be an inside job so traditional electronic safeguards (like encryption) won’t be enough.
No manner how you slice, CVJ, you are anti-automation. If you want this very expensive 100% manual verification on top of the automation then why not just go 100% manual. Why burden the school teachers/BEIs with double work? These ideas shows your inexperience in handling big scale systems operations and basic business sense.
Put another way, it’s like telling the banking world that we have to manually verify each and every ATM withdrawal made by its customers because we have the fear of hacking/cheating, what have you! And to manually verify, let’s pass along the costs to our customers. What an efficient way of doing business!
Im not agaisnt automation too..and like cvj, I also suggest a full audit on the technical functionalities of the sending and receiving and processing of votes..from PCOS level up to national level.
The PCOS security issue is just one piece of the huge problem..there is still the municipal level, provincial level and national level..these levels are not using PCOS but conventional PCs or computers to receive, send and process the votes. The issue of the integrity of the data received, the person who received and the person who sent the data must be addressed in a wholistic way.
One comelec guy from cebu office said that votes coming from PCOS machines in the barangay are going to be sent using satellite technology..if this is true then the PCOS as well the data in transit is totally exposed to the internet, due to the fact that satellite technology for internet is using a live internet IP and not internal IPs, unless smartmatic is going to setup a satellite technology solely for the election only. If in case they are going to use GSM technology to those areas not covered with MPLS, GPRS, etc..how are they going to secure the GSM communication channel, as the encryption used for GSM has been cracked few years back..and ig GSM providers in the Philippines already have upgraded the encryption they implement on their GSM communications technology.
There are a lot of issues that needs to be addressed. Due to the fact that there are areas not covered by IP based communication, smartmatic will have to use different types of communication technology and protocols..and mybe different providers for each..because of this, the only for this difft protocols and providers to be able to communicate to each other..is to use the internet…in that case data is exposed to the internet and therefore the risk of data to be compromised is higher.
etc etc etc
You may want to submit a decent project proposal to Cuisia — NAMFREL — so your ideas see light of day.
Tangama, you can refer back to my previous entry where i described how the automated and manual counts would complement each other.
The ‘burden’ of manual verification is worth it since what is at stake is the integrity of our elections. Why go through the whole process if it will just be compromised? In this regard, a fully automated election ultimately relies on trusting COMELEC, Given its track record, do you think such trust is warranted?
To relieve the burden of teachers, shifting arrangements can be put in place so that a the teachers do not have to work more than 8 hours.
When you come up with the dollar and cents of your proposal and how it will be funded, then talk to me. Your main issue is trust of Comelec given its track record. These new Comelec Chair and commissioners are all post-Abalos chairmanship when the MegaPacific and Garci scandal occurred. So basically you judging the integrity of Chair Melo and his fellow commissioners. On what basis? Have these people committed any acts that who lead you to believe that they are not trustworthy? If you do, please let me know.
ATR, at this point, your conclusions with regards to mode of transmittal of ERs are based on lack of or incomplete information and therefore speculative in nature. You also suggest “…a full audit on the technical functionalities of the sending and receiving and processing of votes..from PCOS level up to national level.” This is being done as we speak by a special committee provided by the law RA 9369, I believe they are called TEC (Technical Evaluation Committee). The logistical national survey/mapping on various mode of communications is currently underway. So things are moving along as planned and ranters like yourself will continue to rant based on mis-dis-incomplete information as if you know better than these people who are privy to the plan of actions. People who are not part of the action but want to be part of the action will continue to rant to get attention for what ever motivation is behind them. If you tell me that you have the capability of cracking/hacking a better than ATM encryption system in under 2 minutes then you will have my attention. If not then you are just making NOISE.
and by the way, I have heard this 2 minutes thing more than a few times already. maybe you are only talking about sending the data from PCOS to municipal level. And yes, given a relatively fast connection, you can send the data in 2 minutes depending on its size. But the risk does not exist on PCOS and its connection to munipal level only…more risks exist on the municipal level, on the provincial level and to the national level. And these different levels are using conventional PCs or computers to receive, process and send votes to higher level.
I think you are the one with an incomplete information and i’ll bet you are the one who is misinformed here.
The security risks starts right at the time during the distribution of key dangles for the physical access to the PCOS machines and if they are going to implement data encryption, whether symmetric or assymetric (im sure you understand the difference, right?) a risk exists as well in the distribution of encryption and decryption keys and in the management of these keys…etc etc etc etc
I really wish I could present to you personally these risks and the different possible threats and how data is going to be sent on areas with telco coverage, with GPRS coverage, with GSM coverage and ultimately using a satellite technology..(ooppss im sorry…as you mentioned ATM encryption, let’s include ATM bandwidths too) not to mention that using satellite technology would be very expensive..unless they know anything about low orbit type of satellite technology with a portable tansceiver equipment in such a way they no longer have to buy a satellite dish and spend money to mount it and then just leave it after sending the data in 2 minutes, right?(Im sure you also know about that..right?). Maybe you mr tangama will fully understand the dangers of the votes of the Filipino people are facing if we meet in person.
But then, I dont really understand…why the negative reaction? why cant you people take these ¨rantings¨ (as you call it) objectively? why react offensively…the thing is, we dont trust the govt people..and I personally believe you or your friends or comelec or smartmatic do not have the capability and necessary experience in dealing with information security issues..otherwise the Philippine Govt website couldn’t have been defaced 4 times..and among other govt agency websites…
why?? why mr tangama?
Why? Because you don’t matter, you are just noise to us. Why do we have to divulge everything? Only for hackers to benefit from it. If trust is your issue, I can’t do anything about it. Bottomline, hacking / cheating is still a CRIME. The best of the hackers have been caught.
I still think you are arrogant by thinking that you are better than a multinational corporation whose business is information security. If you are the most sought after information and cybersecurity expert in the Philippines, can you provide your client list and how much revenue your company brings in annually?
Tangama,
“If trust is your issue, I can’t do anything about it”
That is the view of the legislators, too, although the Constitution assigns them the job of caretaking the Public Trust. I think people can engender trust, if they try. They don’t . . . they often do the opposite, then complain when people raise their voices.
Oh, by the way, people have a right to raise their voices . . .
Joe
Sorry Joe, I’m not a legislator and therefore neither am I the caretaker of Public Trust. But my point is from the view of elections, if trust or the lack of it, is the issue, then it doesn’t matter whether the elections is manual or automated. So people let’s get over it, we are having an automated elections which I think is a marked improvement from the manual past. What ticks me of with this Guest Writer, is he blogs and rants with wrong and twisted facts.
For starters, he accused Smartmatic-TIM of daring hackers around the world to try and hack the automated elections system for a price tag of P10M. If my memory serves me right, it was Senator Cayetano who pitched that idea by proposing the P100 of the P11.2B budget be allocated for that purpose. Secondly, he pre-judged Smartmatic, by saying “…Smartmatic-TIM has continuously failed to demonstrate the level of security their system has or the level of security they are planning to implement to prevent possible election fraud and/or election failure.” and “…ignorance of Smartmatic-TIM in terms of information security is obviously bottomless”. On what basis were these founded on? Have you heard of any automated elections around the world being hacked and led to an election failure? Could it be that part of the security strategy of Smartmatic is to be vague and mum (except to the proper authorities) so as not to give would be hackers misinformed? Thirdly, the arrogance of this guy really blows my mind. He boastfully proclaims that he is better that Smartmatic, a multinational company that spends millions of dollar protecting their security system. I highly doubt it, therefore, to me he is nothing but noise. I am not against the concerns on security as no system is infallable but what turns me off is the way this writer condesendingly and arrogantly puts down the proponents. If you asked me, I guess his motivation is that of feeding his own displaced ego or worse, he might be selling his wares, tsk, tsk.
Tangama,
Yes, okay, I gotcha . . . thanks.
And I liked your atm analogy way up top . . .
Joe
by UP n grad
¨You may want to submit a decent project proposal to Cuisia — NAMFREL — so your ideas see light of day.¨
@UP n grad,
Do you think NAMFREL would entertain such proposal coming from a neophyte like me?
Tangama
You call ranters those who wanted to make sure that votes are not compromised? You call ranters those who want to make sure that election fraud is avoided??? you call ranters those who want a clean election thus electing those who are voted by the people???? and You accuse me of just ranting because I would want to be in the picture? Maybe you are already in the picture and that is why you are here trying to defend your solution with nothing by words!!!!! Im not the one speculating here..its you who is speculating…and If I think Im better than these people doing the review?? YES, I know I am much better than these people, specially when it comes to information and cyber security…and what scares me is that there a lot out there who are way way way better than me.
cracking an ATM encryption??? They are going to use ATM bandwidth in the remote areas? where there is telco coverage? no phones?? hahaha you are making me laugh tangama. Did you even know what encryuptiong can be used in ATM badnwidths?
correction: no telco coverage
Worrying about things pays off.
Black/White and others who have been crying over GMA-cha-cha-cha
can claim that their efforts is why cha-cha-con/con will be
AFTER a new President replaces GMA in Malacanang.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/172888/house-panel-approves-p2b-budget-for-con-con
“You may want to submit a decent project proposal to Cuisia — NAMFREL — so your ideas see light of day.”
@UP n grad,
Do you think NAMFREL will entertain an idea coming from a neophyte like me?
An option is for you plus three others collaborating on a joint proposal.
With a brain like yours, UP n grad is being kind. You prolly need more than three collaborators. I suggest you hook up with the following genuises, Harry Roque, Dr. Manalastas, Felix Muga, Gus Lagman, and Christian Monsod to name a few. Happy trails to you…
isa lang aking kahilingan bago ako pumanaw sana magkaruon ng batas muna regarding d2 sa automated election para sa mga lalabag, dapat na kaparusahan ehh hatulan ng kamatayan buong familya nila. upang magdalwang isip sila gumawa ng bagay naikakasama ng bayan. at kamatayan sa buong family ng nagpapatupad kung sakali meron nakalusot sa kanila dahil dapat pantay ang batas at walng kinikilingan…. upang maging maayos e2 lang paraan upang magdahan dahan tayo sa pagdidisisyon upang makagawa tayo ng maayos at hindi yabang lamang…
If an Ike Seneres says the COMELEC automation project is hackable, I have no reason to believe otherwise.
The automation project is HACKABLE and with a president whose “voice” was hacking doing some “hacking” herself, where will the next hacking lead us?
If we can forgive a “Hello Garci”, what is it the Filipino people cannot possibly forgive?
SHAME ON US, FILIPINO PEOPLE.
Do they (Smartmatic) really believe that the automated election system isn’t hackable?
Hey, technology as well as people who manipulate them are advanced now. Just because the system has reached a whole other level of security doesn’t mean the “leeches” who’ll try to “suck” into it is the same as before. Have they not learned from the mistakes of others who did the same thing?
They even gloated about their “unhackable” system, and will even give a 10 million reward to the one who can hack it. Such arrogance. Someday, they’ll be eating their own words.
10 million ? or lifetime emprisonment? if SMARTMATIC proved that the level of security of their technology is 100 % failure how come they do a favor of giving reward to those hackers…………. Let us see…..
That’s bullshit……………………………………………….
pwede kayang sabihin na ang “i love you” virus ay precedence? kung tama ang memorya ko, na-hack nito ang computer systems ng pentagon, british parliament at malalaking businesses sa mundo.meron bang comparison?
kinundena ng AMA ang estudyante nilang gumawa nito, pero kasama ito sa newsletter nila nung nag-school visit sila sa amin para manghikayat ng mga estudyante mag-enroll sa kanila.what’s my point?ego.lagot ang smartmatic,siguradong lucrative challenge ito para sa mga hackers.
as far as i know and as far as i concerned i have known a supermarket w/c has been hacked and the suspect is very big time enough to increase his money in just a second because all of the computerized system of that supermarket is connected w/ only one computer of the hacker and those profit of every sale object has been hacked.
humanda ang smartmatic sa election dahil siguradong maraming hackers ang makapaligid sa darating na halalan..Kung may daya sa manual election mas marami ang daya sa smartmatic election…..dapat magbabayad nang malaki ang smartmatic kapag paltos ang kanilang system na ginamit..dahil nakataya nito ang kaunlaran ng ating bansang PILIPINAS…
Isa lng ang masasabi ko. Lahat ng bagay sa internet pwedeng ma-hack. hanggat may evil ay hindi nawawala ang posibility na ma-hack ang e-leksyon. yung mga nag didis agree sa mga katulad nitong mga sinasabi ko eh hindi nyo alam kung ano ang kayang gawin ng mga hacker. just pay them the right price and they can be considered a threat sa automated election or e-leksyon. sinasabi lng ng smartmatic na kaya nila proteksyonan ang data pero tingnan nalang natin kung hanggang saan ang kaya nila pag lumabas na ang hacker na may kailangan sa 10m nila.
ps: nice post/review ATR! :D
PAAnu lalabas ang hackers para sa ten million rewARD.? pApatayin siguro ng smartmatic yan possible pero yung reward di sigoro. “An enemy never threat good to those who cross their line. Gago talaga”
One of the major vulnerabilities is the Comelec lack of competence and dependence on Smartmatic-TIM. Commissioners are not IT competent but they are entrusted to do such tasks in the elections. They over rely on the expertise of Smartmatic-TIM, take note the the company is not an IT expert because it is just a marketing firm, only an IT provider. Who operates it can control the votes, and it introduces automated cheating. it can result to failure of elections.
Weather is hackable or not lets try something new, no matter what opticians are always associated with crooks, I think who ever take the seat complains towards to our government will not stop. The risk that we have right now cheaters do it in a high-tech ways, less effort more brains, elections is always a risk unless we know the true colors whoever take the seat to our government, its time to move on and show the world that we can do automated election.
We know that our govt are so known for being corrupt, that’s why we ask the quality the machines and the protocols they purchased, by the way if we fail its another 6 or 3 years agony, what’s new ? It’s always an agony ever since.
Let’s think the bright side.. Question is are we ready for automated election? If not, when? After 100 years where ATM are no longer used? Where 10X high-tech machine are available compare that we have right now? Or when country is so depress because those politicians already waste our national wealth?
I think there are reasons why TEC people haven’t answered those questions, simply it is also a part the security protocols, if they answered those questions, it would more idea for those cyber crooks to hack our votes.
Other brighter side it will reduce the number casualties due election violence, thing there are lot of victims of election related violence on our past election because they spent 24-36 hour in poling precinct. There will no more ballot boxes that may need manually protected by teachers (normally election facilitators)
There is nothing to risk. Kalian ba nanalo ang taong bayan sa election? In short we are all losers specially those poor people! We saw theres nothing change in the old ways. There might be a new hope on the high-tech way!
(Thanks to all comments and reactions I’ve really learn a lot)
SMARTMATIC- Machine is 90 % HACKABLE
tama
When their is a failure on the transmission, they will use either MMC Card, USB or CD R.. The CCS operator then download the file from that storage devices… The question is, How sure is smartmatic that the file being downloaded is not modified? the file extension is .log i think, every file can be modified using third party programs.. Hacking will not be involved, but the file being transmitted can be edited on the lower level, precinct or municipal level…Another thing is that we can mirror the laptop that smartmatic will provide the MBOC, their are a lot of ports on the laptop itself for entry.
of course it’s hackable, provided that they have the knowledge of how the PCOS software works. Still it’s more secure than the manual election where frauders are very much familiar with. Frauders need It’s just right for the SMARTMATIC to not explain how the system works in detail for security reasons. The PCOS source code is locked up in BSP vaults so hackers will have a hard time finding a way to break in. And if the voters are still not satisfied(or don’t trust the result), they could still manually count all votes.
it has been proven here in st. bernard, so. leyte philippines that election automation has been hacked. people who are not well known to the barangays won the election. voters nw are not satisfied with the results. they wanted a manual re-counting. they even wanted to make a rally to show the number of people who voted to joy.
a simple did you know that questions:
the cf card used in the may 10 election can be program to favor a certain candidates! (yes or no?)
the programmer who programmed the cf card can be paid millions of pesos to program the card to favor who paid millions to him. (can a candidate do this to win? (yes or o?))
A fool-proof computer system can never exist because humans must intervene to make the system run – from program coding all the way up to data storage. And whenever humans are involved the system’s intergrity can be compromised. But a computer system must run and therefore a reasonable balance between security and performance must be struck. This is achieved through compliance with generally accepted security standards and procedures. But the public cannot be made privy to the security precautions that are integrated into the system. So, it really boils down to the professional competence and integrity of the people creating and running the system.
oh guys thanks u so much for all the comment, we are having a debate…and we are in the side of pro’s hehe…well what should i say…well for me the truth is that the people of the Philippines is the problem…thats it=) hey please i dont want any arguments…thank you thank you godbless=)