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Easily Hackable? Seriously?(2)

March 5, 2010

Senatorial candidate Jose de Venecia III claims the automated election system can be easily hacked by a lean team of about 30 hackers. The self-proclaimed IT expert whose claim to fame was an expose on a broadband deal that he himself used to be a party to says these hackers can easily get into Comelec’s [...]

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Automated Elections Fears

The Commission on Elections is right in identifying fear as the greatest danger to automation. Just consider what’s out there in the news  on the poll automation project — the dangers of hacking, delays in preparations, the inevitability of electoral fraud, and worst of all failure of elections.
While it is okay to raise concerns, those [...]

Philippine government website hacking, advertisement for new racket by “hacking syndicate”?

What is shocking is that Gregorio said that their security experts have tipped them off that hacking syndicates are using news of the government website hackings to claim that they can hack the automated polling system.

Surveys of Doom

LeadPhilippines a private sector group that espouses critical analysis of issues affecting the Philippines has come out with an online survey on — surveys. The group asks:
Were you ever interviewed by or a respondent to either Pulse Asia or Social Weather Station (SWS) in any of their 2010 Philippines Presidential Surveys?
I’ve been wondering about those [...]


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