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F R E N D Z of martian
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...unless there's a mysterious browser GUID we don't know about...
paranoid? Me?
Still, babybird's not winning any more, by a long stretch. But the bluetones
are. oh well.
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Cosgrave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 27 January 2000 02:38
To: multiple recipients of
Subject: Re: Vote Rigging
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F R E N D Z of martian
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I tried to script it, honest. Their defence is a bit less obvious than at
first
appears. It looks like a properly crafted GET method URL would do it, but it
doesn't seem to increment the counter (I ran 30-40 hits). Reloading the page
does nothing significant (that I could see) to its contents but you won't be
able to add another vote. However, the page doesn't drop a cookie on the
client.
This seems to imply that they are counting IP addresses. This further
implies
that 10 ppl voting from behind a NAT (masquerading) firewall would be
counted
as a single vote (because as far as the web server knows, the 10 different
clients voting all have the same IP address - that of the firewall).
Neil Elkins wrote:
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> F R E N D Z of martian
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> Could everyone please go to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/buzz_chart.shtml
> and vote for Pink Assasin's 'Small World' because a)It might knock
BabyBird
> off the top, which has to be a good thing and b)It's my mate's band.
>
> Oh, and if anyone knows a good way to non-obviously rig it with a script,
> feel free...
>
> cheers!
>
> ___
> Neil
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