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
