[Scummvm-devel] Re: poll is easy to cheat

[Max Horn]

Am 06.12.2004 um 14:29 schrieb Eugene Sandulenko:

> Hi Fingolfin,
>
> the pol you posted allowed me any number of votes (I put 2 :)). So
> it's easy to cheat with it. Can something be done with it?
> Alternatively we may just later process the logs and filter out any
> duplicated IPs.
>
Actually, from the looks of it, I think the poll was already tampered 
with, considering how the numbers changed in a relatively short time.

So, there that goes. Fool that I was I thought my provider would supply 
a *good* poll applet, apparently that is not the case <sigh>.

I guess we should pull that poll, get another, better, poll running and 
tell people about that in a news item. *Of course*, that poll will be 
vulnerable, too. No simple web based poll system is fully secure, I am 
afraid. So unless we want to force "voters" to register, we'll have to 
live with that...

Or we drop the poll idea and go with draven :-). Using the logo from 
jeanm was suggested by at least two people now (my cousin Krest, and 
Zorbid), though I am not sure that's doable, the artists might after 
all not agree with that...


Cheers,

Max