Comments on: The Autormated Election System - Is it hackable?

By: Tats

Tats — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:47:33 +0000

We should know our politicians better. They will find a way to rig the election no matter what. Anything not hackable or riggable they will never buy!

By: uncleangidpogi

uncleangidpogi — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:41:09 +0000

I don’t know how others secure their automated election system…and this is exactly the idea…nobody knows and no one should know. In cyber warfare, if you know how to hide your system, even if you are vulnerable to some attacks, but you make it so hard for your enemy to find your system…your system can be considered secure, because if I were the enemy I wouldn’t know where to launch the attack.

Security by obscurity is the secret. The more you say something about your system, the more vulnerable you become..

Never shout to the whole world that your system is secure and unhackable…be paranoid always, always bear in mind that there is someone out there much better than you..and that someone surely has the capability to break into your system…

And Never challenge a hacker…

These 3 points are the most basic but very effective in information security. And samtmatic-tim failed in these points so far. They have continuously claimed through the media that their system is unhackable and they are even offering 10M php to those who can successfully hack the system..this so far is the most stupid thing.

And Comelec, who’s ignorance to cyber security is also bottomless like smartmatic-tim..they have become the “bash-brothers” in causing the possible failure of the 2010 automated election. This is like “The blind leading the blind” hehehe

By: didi

didi — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:47:59 +0000

Angel, how do other countries protect the sanctity of the ballot? First world countries have adopted automation long time ago and the results of elections have never been contested (except the Bush-Gore toss up which ended up in the US Supreme Court, but the contested portion is statistically insignificant, considering data dating back to the start of automation). Redundancy in transmission of the data could probably help. Also, simultaneous and redundant transmission is probably better than laddered transmission (send simultaneously to local, provincial, national and media rather than precinct to municipal to provincial, etc). At this time of the technological evolution, ensuring a credible automated election should be a walk in the park.