more online fraud in the service of friends

posted by tom / August 21, 2006 /

This poll would be slightly harder to manipulate than the last one, because it sends you an email with a link that has to be followed in order to confirm your vote.

But it's still beatable. Register a domain — say, theatermail.net — and put up a front page explaining that it's an invite-only mail portal. Set all incoming mail at that domain to be forwarded to a script that scrapes the message for URLs and does a simple GET on any it finds. Then rewrite the script from the last entry to fill out the form, randomly generating emails @theatermail.net (or whatever). Bang! Votes cast and automatically confirmed. If anyone started digging it'd look suspicious as hell, but odds are kind of low that they would.

But I won't actually be doing that this time, I don't think (drunk talk notwithstanding). This is a little more serious than the last poll, and the folks involved deserve a legitimate victory. So I'll just encourage you to head over to WUSA's site and vote for Rorschach.

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