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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."
1. Find bug
2. Don't report it
3. ????
4. Profit!
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.
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
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.
for handing out wads of cash to the poor to get them to vote a certain way come elections
200 peso notes famously become scarce before elections
no need to hack the system to alter the vote, just keep buying the votes
the philippines is a beautiful land, with beautiful people... and a corrupt political establishment, it's a sad commentary on corruption the philippines, the vote buying
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Almost certainly, they are recording ALL the packets that travel across the line as well as checking the state of the system. And if not, then they deserve what will happen. And if it is on a OSS platform, then they will be able to modify the kernel so that it gives more info during the cracking attempt.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
This is going to piss off that teenager in Helsinki that's been running their elections.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
But someone I did some consulting for years ago had a PC security product that they claimed was unhackable. It was some disk arrangement where the OS could write to the disk, and those sectors would be saved in a scratch table so that when you rebooted the machine it reverted to its original state.
They took it to one of the big conventions and had a briefcase with $10k in it for the first person that could make a permanant change to the disk without opening the case. Guys showed up with their own latex gloves so they wouldn't leave prints and one managed to come up with the proprietory vendor unique command set for the particular drive model that was in the system.
I don't think that was really the sort of adversary that they expected would show.
How things work outside the United States:
How things work in the United States: