Name: Anonymous 2009-04-20 21:37
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001256.html
The outcome of the 2009 Time 100 World's Most Influential People poll isn't that important in the big scheme of things, but it's difficult to understand why a high profile website would conduct an anonymous worldwide poll without even the most basic of safeguards in place. This isn't high security; this is web 101. Any programmer with even a rudimentary understanding of how the web works would have thought of these exploits immediately.
Without any safeguards, wannabe "hackers" set out to game the poll in every obvious way you can think of.
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The outcome of the 2009 Time 100 World's Most Influential People poll isn't that important in the big scheme of things, but it's difficult to understand why a high profile website would conduct an anonymous worldwide poll without even the most basic of safeguards in place. This isn't high security; this is web 101. Any programmer with even a rudimentary understanding of how the web works would have thought of these exploits immediately.
Without any safeguards, wannabe "hackers" set out to game the poll in every obvious way you can think of.
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