Was failure of the 1st batch of memory cards for the PCOS intentional??

[niky]

I'm not buying it.

Comelec hackers? Those guys can barely even provide a good website for themselves, and as we all know majority of the employees there are old fashioned people. The government isn't really good in procuring the right people for IT projects most of the time. NBI could barely even catch "hackers".

Obviously Smartmatic really blundered on the flash cards. No project manager would have wanted something like that to happen, especially with the logistical nightmare that comes with it.

They simply overlooked the difference of the formatting of the new ballots since they were still basically using the old vertical sample ballots with no double-spacing every time they would do a demonstration.

They had enough people working the hours to be able to reconfigure the flash cards, so it wasn't really surprising.

A lot of those IT/security know-it-alls had been talking before the elections about cheating and vulnerability crap. Well, all they did was talk, talk, and talk.

Well... since we're talking about working hours... do the numbers.

How many CF cards are we talking about? Around 76,000, right?

How long does it take to reprogram/reformat a 2 gigabyte flash card? Say, about five minutes. That's being generous, as you'd have to double-check and verify the work, and according to the reports, ALL the replacement/reflashed cards worked.

Smartmatic claimed it had 75 PCs that could reprogram 40 cards an hour... which seems about right... from what was shown, the machines could do six cards at a time, at an average of nine minutes per batch... Which meant that they'd only need 25 working hours to do everything... but that 25 hours doesn't necessarily include testing, which would have to be done on the individual PCOS machines. Yet the cards all worked perfectly on election day.

And then there's the problem of the cards having to be tested before being sent out to the precincts initially... such a big error would have been obvious immediately, before delivery. And such an error would take a team at least a day or two to reprogram.

The effort of recalling all the cards (which took time) and reprogramming, and reflashing, within the time period given would have been so immense as to be nearly impossible. So while there's a chance that everything was indeed as they said it was, it's still hard to swallow. It would require Smartmatic to have been incredibly incompetent before the delivery, and incredibly supercompetent after.

[baludoy]

if its true, then it was an effective red herring the smartmatic-tim guys carefully nurtured. matindi ang foresight nila at execution ng diversion nila kung totoo nga iyon

btw, just before the elections, weren't there talks circulaitng that the local counterpart of smartmatic were comprised by the old boys network of the 1st gentleman? how true is that?