<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Thanks for sharing this Ali, and to echo Barracks comments this is quite worrisome. I would also like to know what IEBC is currently doing to address the security gaps identified.</div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><div>Regards, <br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Sylvia </div></div><br><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Ali Hussein via kictanet" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b>To: </b>smusalagani@hivos.org<br><b>Cc: </b>"Ali Hussein" <ali@hussein.me.ke><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, 14 July, 2017 07:20:22<br><b>Subject: </b>[kictanet] KPMG Report Exposes Major Security Gaps in Register<br></div><br><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div><span></span></div><div><div><p style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" data-mce-style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span>Listers</span></p><p style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" data-mce-style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span><br></span></p><p style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" data-mce-style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span>Not sure whether this was posted earlier.</span></p><p style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" data-mce-style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span><br></span></p><p style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" data-mce-style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span>At least 10 security loopholes that could be exploited to manipulate the August 8 General Election have been exposed in an audit report of the country’s voter register.</span></p><p style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" data-mce-style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span>The voter roll lacks mandatory security features and could therefore be easily hacked into and data of the 19.6 million registered voters deleted, added or amended, according to the audit report by KPMG.</span></p><p style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" data-mce-style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span><br></span></p><p style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" data-mce-style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span>Read on:-</span></p><a href="http://theglobe.ng/news/2472" target="_blank">http://theglobe.ng/news/2472</a></div><div><br><br><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b>Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span><span></span></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" data-mce-style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><span><br></span></div><div><span>"We are what we repeatedly do. 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