10 ways to HACK the Automated Elections

[jushaphy]

duh.. comelec nalang daan. no need to hack.

[babypaupau]

pessimistic people like you is one of the reason why this country is still in the rut... lamang lng ang mga politiko ninyo ug 2 ka paligo. you keep on complaining and looking at flaws... and that is the only thing you do. tsk tsk...not even trying to be a responsible citizen of the country. hay naku.


bato bato sa langit...

[Javaman]

chill mga peeps....give a little credit to comelec naman for this effort. progress is always a good thing.

if many of you are worried that anybody can easily hack into the system, then you're mistaken. with this kind of endeavor, the government usually hire the best consultants available in the industry. worst case scenarios are already mitigated in advance, like "hacking".

when you think of hacking, first you must have access to the system. how can you hack a system if you don't have access, right? so to prevent this so called hacking, the comelec can put policies and procedures in accessing the system. a good example of a policy is "dual access". no one is allowed to access the system alone. so with that kind of policy in place, hacking now is a step more difficult to achieve. and im sure there's a lot of these policies in place.

for me, i'm more worried on the transmission process. and that's another story.

[peewee_toot]

^^ang transmission pd akong gika gul-an sir...

[Javaman]

also sa transmission, they claimed it is digitally signed prior to transmission. this is a very good thing. digitally signing is the electronic way of signing and sealing with a tamper-proof envelop in the paper world. so even the so called "hackers" can intercept it, there's no way for them to change the details inside it, because digitally signing is tamper-proof with still no known attacks against it.

what i'm worried about is that when the transmission mechanism fails. So there's a remote possibility that a major percentage of election returns won't reach the comelec. hmmm.....failure of elections?

[bamboostix2011]

dali ra gyud kaayo na ma tikas ang automated election pede ra e edit mao na ang naka way ayo kung mag ka hi-tech pud grabe na pud kaayo ang tikas sauna sa balota pata kawaton pud bas.on ug tubig pra ma lawgaw ang mga votes karon pud pede ra editon maka lusot ra ghapon kundi nya e power sabotage ra tsk tsk tsk mga leader sa pilipinas dili gus2 nga kita mga Filipino mo asinso gus2 nila cla ra ang mo asenso mao ng kung naa pa sa pwes2 mangawat og maayo ky incase nga wala na sila sa pwes2 dako cla ug na tigom mura naman ug wala ny pag asa nga mo asenso ang pilipinas tungod sa ilang binuhatan

[elvandesantos]

also sa transmission, they claimed it is digitally signed prior to transmission. this is a very good thing. digitally signing is the electronic way of signing and sealing with a tamper-proof envelop in the paper world. so even the so called "hackers" can intercept it, there's no way for them to change the details inside it, because digitally signing is tamper-proof with still no known attacks against it.

what i'm worried about is that when the transmission mechanism fails. So there's a remote possibility that a major percentage of election returns won't reach the comelec. hmmm.....failure of elections?

hopefully if mo fail ang transmission nila sa globe ug smart sir.. masulbad ra sa last resort which is satelite signal... if mo fail pagyud naa man sad hard copy nga SDcard. then and SDcard d man mobasa sa lain machine kundi sa kana ragyud sa assign niya nga pcos then aside that naa pagyud security key.

[elvandesantos]

dali ra gyud kaayo na ma tikas ang automated election pede ra e edit mao na ang naka way ayo kung mag ka hi-tech pud grabe na pud kaayo ang tikas sauna sa balota pata kawaton pud bas.on ug tubig pra ma lawgaw ang mga votes karon pud pede ra editon maka lusot ra ghapon kundi nya e power sabotage ra tsk tsk tsk mga leader sa pilipinas dili gus2 nga kita mga Filipino mo asinso gus2 nila cla ra ang mo asenso mao ng kung naa pa sa pwes2 mangawat og maayo ky incase nga wala na sila sa pwes2 dako cla ug na tigom mura naman ug wala ny pag asa nga mo asenso ang pilipinas tungod sa ilang binuhatan

you are referring to the machines nga dili secured. ma-edit ug basta2x. why nt help the government instead of fighting the government.

dispite the failures the government had with us(not all), why nt give them the benefit of the doubt.

[Art21]

Ma hack pana o dili ang automated election karon 2010 o bisan kinsa pa naa sa position. Philippine Goverment and some gov. agencies and deparments are STILL CORRUPT... stil a waste of time.

[Javaman]

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