ESPN site hacked?
I was a student of Prof. Harry Roque when he was contesting the automated elections before the Supreme Court. I think I am not competent to discuss the technical aspects of his arguments but he was basically arguing (as I've understood it) that we would not be assured that our votes would be protected when there was no pilot testing and because the private and public keys would be generated and kept by Smartmatic-TIM and not by COMELEC. But COMELEC and Smartmatic were all saying that the system is fully protected and cannot be hacked. I even read somewhere that Smartmatic was offering a prize for anyone who can hack their system.
Automated elections may make the electoral process easier…but hopefully not easier to hack...and cheat. Like what was done in the TESDA site, the Department of Labor and Employment site, Department of Health site, and the National Disaster Coordinating Council site. The latter three government agencies were reportedly hacked while COMELEC was testing the web-link of the counting machines that would be used in this coming elections (to read more, click the following link: Palace alarmed over hacking of government websites)
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Haha TESDA already fixed their site. :)
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