14:01 Philippines tease hackers | |
| The Philippine Government filed an appeal to hackers to break in an online vote. This system will be tested during the trial of elections from 10 to 30 July. The Philippines and some other countries are trying to emulate the success of Estonia, which is the world's first fully-fledged Internet-held elections. The system of online voting for the Philippines was developed by Spanish company Scytl Consortium at a cost of $ 452 thousand during the testing of 26,893 registered voters will be answering questions on-line questionnaire, which should mimic the process of selecting candidates for these elections. The developers of the system, and Philippine authorities have asked the International Organization of electoral systems with a request to bring to the online testing system "professional hackers." The Spaniards are confident that their development is completely secure and will withstand any attack. The computer system now being introduced also for online voting in the U.S., Switzerland and Belgium. Themselves hackers believe that any system can be hacked and have already started to joke, to which will resemble the final results of voting in the Philippines: "Ferdinand Marcos was elected for another presidential term to three trillion votes. Second place went to D4v1d 3. P3t3rs0n with only two trillion votes and came third out of Socrates Nicholas St. Petersburg with a half trillion. Via AHN | |
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