SOMEBODY should tell National Movement for Free Elections chairman Edward Go that you’re just asking for it when you talk about being “hacker-proof.”

Ask any techie. There’s no such animal. No matter how good your security is, you can’t really say it’s 100% hacker-proof.  And hackers, being what they are, might take that as a challenge.

Here’s an excerpt from the Philippine Daily Inquirer reporter Cathy Yamsuan’s story:

“Normally, you install a ‘firewall’ to prevent attempts to disrupt the system. But our systems provider, Synapse, provided us not just one firewall but a Great Wall with six firewalls,” Go boasted at Saturday’s regular news conference.

“And if the first [line of defense] detects something, the system shuts itself down so nothing can come in and so we can still operate internally,” he added.