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Volunteer vote count website under attack
Jakarta Globe - July 17, 2014
"Our team is fighting; there are only five of us against hundreds," KawalPemilu.com founder Ainun Najib told news portal Tempo.co on Thursday.
Ainun, a former International Math Olympiad champion, said the attacks began on Wednesday afternoon after news spread that the site had posted data showing Joko Widodo and running mate Jusuf Kalla ahead with just under 53 percent of the vote.
As of Thursday afternoon, the the Jakarta Globe was unable to access the site. Ainun did not elaborate on the nature of the attacks but said that they originated in Indonesia. He did not say if the site had been targeted by denial of service attacks.
He was not available for immediate comment. He told Tempo that he had hired two information security experts to help protect the site and posted a potential workaround on Twitter.
The website was equipped with standard security measures, he said, but attackers were able to circumvent them.
He said that some attackes seemed to have targeted the data itself in an attempt to discredit its accuracy. Those problems had since been corrected, he said. "The data is safe," he said.
Although the accuracy of the website could not be verified, it received praise from observers, who said it was healthy for the political process.
"As this is a new thing, we cannot see its track record," Andrinof Chaniago, a lecturer in politics at University of Indonesia told the Jakarta Globe on Wednesday. "I think this is a good movement, setting up the website. There used to be only one party supervising the election [the General Election Commission]."
Source: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/volunteer-vote-count-website-attack/.
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