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To: Salamander

Personally, I think it's kind of funny. Someone must have alot of time on their hands to be going through the vote pages and IDing the input html elements you need in order to do a vote script for each particular online poll.


52 posted on 10/08/2004 8:48:02 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: vbmoneyspender
It's pitiful, is what it is.

I had to interrupt Freeping just to go feed the hungry dogs who've been glaring at me for the past 2 hours, now...:))
64 posted on 10/08/2004 8:57:10 PM PDT by Salamander (Pirates of the Appalachians)
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To: vbmoneyspender

But once you've got it set up, you're golden. Initiate multiple sessions and flood all the polls within minutes.

I still think it would be useful to get some media-geek to weigh in on this and demo for one of these sites (FNC?) how easy it is to spoof these polls.


67 posted on 10/08/2004 8:59:07 PM PDT by macbee ("Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: vbmoneyspender

It is incredibly easy to do. I used to load test our server farm using webbrowser objects. Takes about 5 minutes to write the code on a bad day.
It's easy enough to test the veracity of the poll. The IIS log captures the IP address of incoming votes. It's simple enough to import it into excel and count the votes for each IP address and exclude duplicates. We used to catch people messing with our web farm that way. You see 150K hits from 1 IP address in 60 minutes, you block that IP address. :)


76 posted on 10/08/2004 9:03:45 PM PDT by ProudVet77 (02NOV04 - Welcome to reality Senator Kerry)
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