Safaricom Servers Hosting IEBC Database

[Omollo]

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Nothing changed from 2013. We are we were in that year. It costs a song to buy servers.

[Omollo]

First this:

IEBC LAUNCHES SMS service for voters to verify their registration status, voters required to send ID number to 70000. pic.twitter.com/0TiS8LjcM2

— Nation Breaking News (@NationBreaking) June 29, 2017

Then This

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The IEBC has come under scrutiny minutes after saying Kenyans can check their voter registration status by texting ID or passport number to 70000.

"Both online and SMS methods of checking your registration details are available," the electoral body said via Twitter on Thursday.

More on this: Check registration status by texting ID or passport number to 70000 - IEBC

But many who sent random ID numbers to IEBC said they received startling feedback.

One said sending the number 0 presents the name Stanley Gitari Mucira of Kirinyaga county, Gichugu polling station and code 003.

When you send number three, you get the name Caroline Anyango Odhiambo of Mombasa county, Mvita polling station and code 032..

But numbers such as 45 result in the notification that there are no such records.

"...no records found. Please visit any IEBC offices near you for more information," read as text seen by The Star.

Some social media users asked the commission to explain what happened to the voters register audit.

"I have sent ID number 0 to that number and this is what I got. Nobody has ID number 0 so how was he registered," said Twitter user 'Coll_Odhiambo'.

'Lmutisya' demanded a credible saying this should not be the case after the "highly publicised audit of the register".

"I thought you were supposed to clean the voter register...I got the same results when I sent number 0 to 70000," presenter Mwanaisha Chidzuga? said.

Tony Watima? said: "Someone is registered with ID number 0 but with my ID number it tells me 'no records found'. IEBC, what games are these?"

The month-long voter verification drive by the IEBC ended on June 9 with only 20-30 per cent voters turning up.

Audit firm KPMG found there were at least a million dead people in the IEBC register but NASA said they did a shoddy job.

More on this: NASA raps KPMG for 'shoddy' audit, wants IEBC to publish list of dead voters

The commission said youths aged between 18 and 34 account for more than half the total number of voters registered for the August 8 polls.

The age group accounts for 9,930,315 valid voters from the total 19,611,423 registered.

More than 88,600 dead voters were later expunged.

[Omollo]

Then the THREATS:

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In the meantime, they rushed to disable the database and manually remove the entries detected by social media

[Omollo]

If this were true, single digit ID cards would not appear. I believe the ID card numbers follow a unique algorithm meaning only a valid ID card number would be accepted by the database. How come the single digit ID numbers were accepted by the "database" in the first place?

A number like 12345678 should not exist as an ID card number. Yet it exists and the IEBC database has a voter answering to it in its so called database!

Someone entered the name KAMAU instead of the ID and lo and behold a voters details came out!

In addition to finger print authentication, you'll need to present ID or Passport, whichever you registered with, on voting day.

— IEBC (@IEBCKenya) June 25, 2017

[Nefertiti]

Safaricom hosting servers - is this illegal?

[patel]

Worst fuck up I have ever seen. Now we can just sit here and wait for uhuruto to steal the elections and watch the country explode or we can put pressure to post phone the elections.

[RV Pundit]

Are they even hosting it. They are domain name servers. It's good that we now have such in kenya for .ke. On this Omollo is wrong...there are few dns servers in kenya.

Safaricom hosting servers - is this illegal?

[Nefertiti]

Omollo is incoherent. Is it illegal for Safaricom to host servers? They are a well established business. He should suggest we host with Amazon or whatever but with very proper reason.

Are they even hosting it. They are domain name servers. It's good that we now have such in kenya for .ke. On this Omollo is wrong...there are few dns servers in kenya.

[Omollo]

Are they even hosting it. They are domain name servers. It's good that we now have such in kenya for .ke. On this Omollo is wrong...there are few dns servers in kenya.

Safaricom hosting servers - is this illegal?

Safaricom are hosting IEBC on their servers. Period

[Omollo]

I will educate you a bit:

In 2013 the IEBC was wholly hosted by a small unknown company. It turned out that the same company also hosted TNA in the same servers. The IEBC had no physical access or minute by minute control over the server.

The subsequent breakdown of the entire result and voter verification systems was attributed to many things but this had a role in it.

It therefore goes without saying that the IEBC could have acquired its own servers and not relied on a private company. There have been reports that Safaricom was working with Jubilee to intercept and doctor results or to engineer another breakdown in the voting system to allow for manual voting and vote stuffing.

Omollo is incoherent. Is it illegal for Safaricom to host servers? They are a well established business. He should suggest we host with Amazon or whatever but with very proper reason.

Are they even hosting it. They are domain name servers. It's good that we now have such in kenya for .ke. On this Omollo is wrong...there are few dns servers in kenya.

[RV Pundit]

You cannot educate me on stuff server - try Logistics.

I will educate you a bit:

In 2013 the IEBC was wholly hosted by a small unknown company. It turned out that the same company also hosted TNA in the same servers. The IEBC had no physical access or minute by minute control over the server.

The subsequent breakdown of the entire result and voter verification systems was attributed to many things but this had a role in it.

It therefore goes without saying that the IEBC could have acquired its own servers and not relied on a private company. There have been reports that Safaricom was working with Jubilee to intercept and doctor results or to engineer another breakdown in the voting system to allow for manual voting and vote stuffing.

Omollo is incoherent. Is it illegal for Safaricom to host servers? They are a well established business. He should suggest we host with Amazon or whatever but with very proper reason.

Are they even hosting it. They are domain name servers. It's good that we now have such in kenya for .ke. On this Omollo is wrong...there are few dns servers in kenya.

[Omollo]

I can actually. I don't think you realize. Just because you think I don't know doesn't me I really don't. You are trying to mislead people here.

I have no expertise in logistics although I have hired plenty of logisticians in my time and have read their reports and can understand the basics.

You cannot educate me on stuff server - try Logistics.