The data of all Filipino voters has been hacked ahead of general election.
Source: Time
A massive leak from a database containing personal details of more than 55 million registered voters in the Philippines will not compromise the May 9 national elections, officials said Friday, in the latest hacking scandal to hit the Southeast Asian nation.
Government agents late Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old suspect, a new graduate of information technology, in his home in Manila. Officials said they are hunting down his alleged accomplices.
Commission on Election spokesman James Jiménez said the automated elections will be run on a different server, not on the one that was hacked, and that experts say the polls are unlikely to be compromised.
The leaked data include voters names, birthdays, home addresses, email, parents full names and in some cases passport details and text markers of fingerprints.
Read more: http://time.com/4304476/philippines-vote-hack-election/?xid=time_socialflow_facebook
Sounds familiar...
Renew Deal
(81,802 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)Here's another one that should be there (an even bigger story):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511810858
We were warned this would happen a decade ago already by Bev Harris and so many others. Welcome to the new normal.
Phlem
(6,323 posts)Mom was Filipino, Dad was an American.
Offsite political experimentation lab in how to fuck elections.
Now living in America, same as it ever was.
forest444
(5,902 posts)Were you there during the People Power revolution that unseated Marcos in 1986?
Personally, I still don't know what to make of it. The thought of popular protests forcing a despot like Macros to bow out (thanks in part to support by his own Defense Minister and Army Chief), is truly inspiring.
The problem, as always, is what comes next - especially with such high expectations.
Phlem
(6,323 posts)All I remember is that anyone who ran against him mysteriously disappeared or died. The place was an armpit with rampant poverty and everyone trying to live in that environment. It did not bring the best out in people.
My step dad was a republican prick so no loss there, but our home off base had a guard station on our corner where I caught the schoolbus. It was a Filipino guard and he was the nicest guy ever! We had a 7 foot concrete fence with broken bottles and shards of glass imbedded into the concrete at the top.
There was always a curfew and I remember nights where I went to bed with gunfire exchange down the street or the next block over. Not N.Y. sized blocks, but micro suburban type blocks.
Families with relatives who worked on base would buy American products and sell them off base at Black Markets to make ends meet.
It was a hole and am not surprised of the overthrow.
I did have the opportunity to live with my Filipino Grandparents for a while in their hut on island NE of Catbalogan. Lived off nature, it was peaceful paradise.
So I feel lucky to have experienced an untouched, un Americanized, peace of paradise 45 + years ago that doesn't exist anymore.
"The problem, as always, is what comes next - especially with such high expectations."
From what I've experienced, the population lulls into sedation while the crooks take over. At this point it's really up to the people to stay on top of things. They know what it was like before, and just like any country, when there's is no strong opposition, the foxes move back into the hen house and the whole cycle starts all over again.
Here in America, we havn't reached the "overthrow" crescendo yet. As I've said in other posts, it's going to have to get to the point where we are all feeling the same pain, not to be anything else but factual. Just like the Philippines.
forest444
(5,902 posts)It was a real education. Thank you.
And you're right: past is prologue. The context may look and feel different here; but we would be wise to look at these other countries' histories and ask ourselves if we're in some way replicating them.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I will post this on Facebook and see what responses I get.
forest444
(5,902 posts)If people don't take care of their democracies, no one will. Not anymore.
Oldenuff
(582 posts)The rise of a confessed killer to front runner status in the race for President in the upcoming election.
I don't believe that I have ever heard a speech by Duterte that does not mention killing someone or other.He believes that the only way to end crime,is to kill all the criminals.
This guy is dangerous.
forest444
(5,902 posts)I've noticed that a number of other countries in the news lately have their own "Trump" - and that, like in the case of that cretin Rodrigo Duterte, they seem to be having their way with voters.
Take Brazil, where the elitist (and extremely racist) right is now within striking distance of unseating the duly-elected president, Dilma Rousseff. One of the ringleaders of the impeachcoup, Congressman Jair Bolsonaro, dedicated his 'yes' vote to the colonel that tortured Ms. Rousseff as a young activist in 1970.
He's known by locals as, you guessed it, the 'Donald Trump of Brazil'.