Election Commission Responds to $2M Reward
April 19, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Services
The Philippine’s Commission on Elections (COMELEC) came out with a response to the anticipated $2 million reward for anyone who can reveal flaws in its planned automated election system. Which I don’t understand.
Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said that while they do not have any objection to hackers trying to test the security of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines to be used in the 2010 polls, granting huge reward might not be beneficial for the project.
“It’s really our plan to invite ethical hackers. We have no problem on inviting ethical hackers in general,” he told The STAR.
But Jimenez warned …read more
$2 Million Reward for Hacking Elections
April 18, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Misc. Gadgets, Portable Audio, Services
There are plans in the Philippines to offer a PHP 100 million reward (a bit over $2 million) to anyone who can find holes in the automated election system for the country’s 2010 elections. This Monday, Philippine Senator Alan Peter Cayetano will file a resolution seeking to allocate that much money from the automation project’s $230 million budget.
As Technograph reports:
Cayetano, at a press conference Friday, said that if any IT expert can establish that the system to be used in the 2010 polls is not secure from fraud and tampering, “Comelec should cancel the contract, save the P11 billion and …read more
