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Hackers Invited To Crack Internet Voting

InternetVoting writes "The Philippine government and the International Foundation for Electoral System will be soliciting hackers to test the security of of their Internet voting system that will be tested in an upcoming pilot program." From the article,"Local and foreign computer hackers will be tapped to try and break into an Internet-based voting system that will be pilot tested by the country's Commission on Elections (Comelec) starting July 10."

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  1. What if by killa62 · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Find bug
    2. Don't report it
    3. ????
    4. Profit!

    1. Re:What if by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Madness...? This IS PHILIPPINES!

  2. Update by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 5, Funny

    Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 18, @10:43PM

    "The Philippine government and the International Foundation for Electoral System will be soliciting hackers to test the security of of their Internet voting system that will be tested in an upcoming pilot program."

    UPDATE:
    Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 18, @10:53PM
    Internet voting has now been cracked.

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  3. Phillipine Election 2008 Headlines: by Organic+Brain+Damage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ferdinand Marcos elected for another term as President with 3,000,000,000 votes. Runner up, D4v1d 3. P3t3rs0n had only 2,000,000,000 votes. Second runner up, Nikolay Sokratov from St. Petersberg had 1,5000,000,000 votes and the remaining 10,000,000,000 votes were split among 1,000,000,000 minor party candidates.

  4. If you get in... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...make sure to add n+1 votes for CowboyNeal!

  5. Re:So... by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is going to piss off that teenager in Helsinki that's been running their elections.

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  6. Re:the philippines is famous by JonathanR · · Score: 2, Funny

    When you vote for our candidate, the voting machine automatically direct deposits PHP200.00 to your bank account.

  7. Re:Think they have not thought about that? by charlieman · · Score: 3, Funny

    What if it get's slashdotted?

  8. Re:Gentlemen by BlueTrin · · Score: 2, Funny

    All your elections are belong to us !

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  9. Re:Wiki government by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, the latter is not really a wiki. More of a scored discussion, it looks like. A Slashdot government?
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