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Who Would Hack the All-Star Balloting?

posted by pudge on 2000.05.30 10:39   

Larry Virden sent us this story about how Major Lague Baseball is gearing up to prevent hacking, such as last year when some jerk voted for Nomar Garciaparra 40,000 times or so with a Perl script. I say you catch them and string them all up by their toenails, but maybe that's a bit rash.

• And thus the net's immune system cranks up.... (Score:1, Interesting)

  by chip (65)

  Hey, I don't like getting sick either. But if the choice is dying, I'll settle for the sniffles.
• So Pudge, a distributed votecasting script? (Score:1, Interesting)

  by bigiain (46)

  How about a distributed votecasting script, with a built in mailserver to verify the random email addresses it creates?
  
  heh heh (now where did I put that /24 block of ip addresses???)
• Re:So Pudge, a distributed votecasting script? (Score:1, Interesting)

  by pudge (1)

  I would never even consider such a thing!
• I understand the hacker was a Masshole (Score:1, Interesting)

  by jjohn (22)

  And we ALL know about Massholes [masshole.com].
• Unstoppable (Score:1, Interesting)

  by raster (70)

  Whew will they learn, you can't stop the perl.
• Re:Unstoppable (Score:1, Interesting)

  by pudge (1)

  The trick is to realize there is no perl.