[Scummvm-devel] [Fwd: scummvm contest poll exploit?]

Ender ender at enderboi.com
Mon Dec 6 16:58:00 CET 2004


It's already been brougt up on list, but just FYI :)

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Dobó Balázs //Draven// <draven at hcgamer.hu>
> To: James 'Ender' Brown <ender at scummvm.org>
> Subject: scummvm contest poll exploit?
> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:08:33 +0100
> hi,
> 
> First of all: thank you very much, that you held my design worthy, to make
> it into the final round! I'm really proud :)
> 
> But the reason i'm writing you, is that the poll is really easily hackable
> in my opinion. And probalby someone has already done it, because the number
> of votes to the old site (not that it was bad :) raised from 30 to 400 in a
> matter of seconds. Then I started looking at it, and discovered something
> interesting, that you should try out (i'm using mozilla). Place your vote,
> and when the results are shown, press the refresh button. You can see, that
> the number of votes are raising as you click refresh...
> 
> Or am I wrong?
> 
> No offence, I'm not writing you, beacuse I think that I should win, the fact
> that I made it to the final round is an accomplishment for me, that is more
> than enough :)
> 
> Keep up the good work and thank you for your help!
> 
> greets,
> 
> Draven
> 






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