Voter's Education : Hacking and the PCOS Machine

Miguel Avila of Smartmatic-TIN Corp explains to them that it is impossible to hack the PCOS Machine during the 2010 election

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[lalaval12]

nice

[TheologianZ]

di na kailangang maghintay pa ng kidlat pra sabihing napakaliit ng chance pra ma hack ang pcos system of transmission. Pano? syempre kung sino ang gumawa ng encryption nyan sya lang ang pwedeng mag alter nyan or mag benta ng data nyan para masabing na hack ng iba. Di na kailangan i hack pa yan ng hacker, pede na yan i hack ng isang computer geek.. Kya refuted na ang statements na ito.

[TheologianZ]

if you say it is impossible to hack the pcos machine then you will say there's an error on time and date of some, then your statement " it is impossible" becomes undoubtly "possible". Possible for internal malfunction and of course the one who knows the encryption possibly can sell its decryption. Even if the pcos are impossible to hack but it is possible to sell decryption code to anyone who buy its information.

[TheologianZ]

then why is it the time and date of pcos was not synchronized?

[1mR3yn]

128 bit encryption is just a 32-byte hash, which means it contains '32' alphanumeric characters. Hacking is always possible.

[litetheory]

Even though it would be possible to hack from the memory card or transmission, there is a long paper trail to validate the real tally.

[elebaguio]

napatunayan na etong election na na hack ang system

[EdgarID]

to continue my point, now if all receiving servers decrypts each data using a unique "pass" code, then the data is safe and tamper proof! Now if what they did is to use only one Decrypting code for all the encrypted data, then a hacker only need to know that specific code to access or even change the data itself.. or just hack the servers and thats it..

but I'm glad that my pinoy brothers are going to this era of technology, its a start!

[EdgarID]

ok got the point... when we talked about encryptions, cipher and decipher o encrypt and decrypting... via a network to a receiving server/s , ito lng ang masasabi ko, one has to know the "password" or should i say the decrypting code to access the received encrypted data.. how many pcos do we have in all? how many receiving servers do we have to decrypt all the codes... in this setup, unless all PCOS machines gives a unique -randomized codes to encrypt the data.. the system will be hackproof!

[ecko3p]

simple

pcos machine -> a little homemade micro comp -> network

the info sent by the pcos shall pass by the micro comp first changing it to favor someone then finally submiting it to the network..

something like you do when you hack an ATM

the encryption cannot be trusted.. it can be broken or decrypted if you have the tools or right connections or right people.

beware Philippines.

nothing is impossible