No to PH poll cheating; Yes to ASEAN partnership

The automated election system (AES) source code is “secure” but cheating in the coming national elections is still possible, warns a poll watchdog. Okay, on with the polls but let’s shut out fools! Continued vigilance, please! *** “They put enough security to make it hard for outsiders to use the system to cheat. But, if they want to cheat, they can do that,” says source code reviewer Dr. Pablo Manalastas. A warning from “expert” Dr. Manalastas, not just a simple patalastas. *** Manalastas, a retired professor of the Ateneo de Manila University Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, tells the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on Automated Election that: “The system is secure, but hacking the system can be done through the cooperation of people who are in charge of the data system and who have physical control of machines. It is possible to cheat with a lot of help [...]